I was really excited when Google offered a Daydream VR headset with my new Google Pixel back in October, but I wasn’t really familiar with why I should be excited. I figured I’d play a couple games, but that it would mostly be just another stepping stone toward a real VR system in a few… Continue reading “VR” photos with Google Cardboard Camera
Category: Technology
Things I’ve enjoyed reading about open source in 2016
I started this post back in February after reading Nadia Eghbal’s “What success really looks like in open source” so that I’d have something other than tweets to reference when I wanted to refer back to some good stuff. So here’s a list, not in any particular order, and including the article already mentioned, of… Continue reading Things I’ve enjoyed reading about open source in 2016
Send and receive email for your domain with Postmark and Amazon’s SES, S3, and Lambda services
A long, long, long time ago, sending email via your website was really horrible. Alongside the static HTML powering your Guestbook, you had some copy/pasted CGI script your ISP somehow allowed you to use that probably didn’t work, but oh crap it started working I hope it doesn’t break now. A long, long time ago,… Continue reading Send and receive email for your domain with Postmark and Amazon’s SES, S3, and Lambda services
Pieter Hintjens on Building Open Source Communities
This was a really interesting listen. Pieter Hintjens, the founder of ZeroMQ, lays out a handful of rules for building open source communities. Put people before code. Make progress before you get consensus. Problems before solutions. Contracts before internals. Everything you do as a founder of a community should be aimed at getting the people… Continue reading Pieter Hintjens on Building Open Source Communities
Email to Slack bot idea
It would be fun to have a Slack bot that could be copied late into a long email thread of reply-alls. It would create a channel or join an existing one, parse the thread into a conversation with messages applied to people in the conversation, and then reply-all to the email thread with a link… Continue reading Email to Slack bot idea