Ian Stewart
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I started reading through Paul Graham’s archives today. (It’s on the Automattic recommended reading list — yes we have a reading list, how cool is that?) I’m spending about 15 minutes every morning reading through it to start my day this year. Expect more random programming quotes from the past 20 years of programming and…
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I’m lucky enough to get to see Takashi Irie several times a year but on a recent trip to London he and I took our photo together with the intention of helping me complete my weird collection of photos with default WordPress theme designers. Takashi is the designer of the super-cool Twenty Fourteen. You may…
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It’s been a while since I’ve done this but lately I’ve been communicating back and forth in a big email thread. You know the type. Multiple carbon copies to different people, varying subjects, very hard to search, very hard to keep your place. I don’t know how people do business this way. At Automattic we use…
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The right answer isn’t the morning, right? If you have the freedom to shower at anytime and showering is the classic case where lateral thinking — or magical problem solving — happens you should shower when you have a problem to solve. Of course, there’s a point at which not showering becomes embarrassing. My wife…
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I’ve managed to keep up with NaNoWriMo for seven days now, writing every day. Even better, I’m still on track to “win”. That is, I’m on track to have written 50,000 words of something approaching a novel (what I’ve written is pretty crap I’m sure but I don’t know — I’m refusing to read it…
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Well, amazing if you’re a super-geek. 🙂 Via io9. Marvel comic book artist Paolo Rivera channels Tintin creator Hergé for his geeky wedding invitation, which packs the aisles with his and his wife’s favorite fictional characters. Since Rivera grew up as a huge Ninja Turtles fan and his wife is named April, Raphael plays the…
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I’ve managed to hit my word counts for three days straight now. And two of them are weekend days. I’m feeling like I can pull this thing off. And I’m spending only about an hour a night writing which is far less time than I was afraid I would be doing. Maybe it’ll get worse…
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So, writing is hard. My strategy is to be like the dog who cloaks himself in stink and not care so much about the quality of what I write as I write it — to just go — but it’s going to be a slog. I thought I could easily knock out the daily 1,667 words…
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My colleague, Jerry Bates, on going Colemak turkey: I have now been typing on Colemak “cold turkey” for about a week now, and I am here to say that I am more than surviving. In fact, I have been doing just fine. Granted, I am still typing rather slowly and cautiously, and need to “peek”…