Sean Kleefeld
I haven't seen this make the rounds on comic book news sites yet, but it was announced this week that The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art has been "acquired" by County College of Morris. The Kubert School was founded, of course, by Joe Kubert back in 1976 and has been pretty...
Paul Wallbank
Iconic Australian italian food brand Leggo’s has been accused by the ABC of mislabelling Chinese produced tomato paste as being Australian or Italian made. Worse, the tests indicate the products were produced in Xinjiang, where – if the allegations are true – it’s highly possible forced labour was...
Sean Kleefeld
So a bit of news from Marvel yesterday, right? Stephen Wacker will be taking over as editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski will begin overseeing a new division of "APAC-originated graphic fiction and manga, based in Japan," and the Marvel Comics headquarters is being moved from New York City to Burbank,...
Sean Kleefeld
One of the news items over the weekend was that Comix Wellspring -- a popular printer among independent creators and publishers for several years -- has suddenly shut down. Temporarily. Maybe. A message on the company's home page says, "We sincerely apologize, but due to unforeseen operational...
agentpalmer
Marty Neumeier attempts to bridge “The Brand Gap,” but does he succeed? Two decades on from its publishing, I think there is more in The Brand Gap that is still relevant than some of the more dated material that’s just fun to reminisce as you read. The book attempts to explain and educate the...
agentpalmer
Despite all of the incredible television advertising catchphrases that still live in my millennial head, one still has a stranglehold: “The incredible, edible egg.” Yes, yes, television was supposed to rot my generation’s collective brain, but it seems downright healthy compared to the subsequent...
GNUnicorn
Every project management tool - from the small to-do-list app up to Jira - is built for the people organizing the work. Not for the people actually doing it. But that’s you. And that’s why you are dreading it. The apps all recite the same promise, from that same book: Getting things done. But...
Matthew Haughey
Bourbon and Whiskey distilling is big in Kentucky and always has been. But it saw a surge in the early 2000s, as customer demand outstripped how much Kentucky distilleries could even produce. There were several reasons for this, but personally I feel like everyone was getting into "brown liquors"...
Adactio: Links
Data is a risk. Data is distracting. It becomes a job. adactio.com/links/22584
Sherman Cahal
While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an abandoned general store and hotel.
Adam’s Rambling Blog
title: “I Rebuilt My Entire Local SEO Strategy in One Session. Here’s What That Looks Like.” date: 2026-03-08 author: Adam Bourg tags: [SEO, Automation, Software 3.0, Small Business] — Let me be direct. I’m a Principal Engineer. I run a junk removal and scrap metal business on the side. And until...
alcfeoh
I have collected hundreds of quotes over the years for inspiration. I wanted to share a few of these and my comments on how these quotes help me shape my business and design my lifestyle. “We are not provided with wisdom; we must discover it ourselves, after a journey through the...
Alan Johnson
When it comes to AI changing the tech world, we’re at a juncture where you’ve either: seen some shit with your own eyes or you believe your imagination of where this is going or, you haven’t and you’re dubious It feels like people are living in a fractured reality. For the moment, that...
Sherman Cahal
About a decade ago, while traveling north along US 23 toward Cheboygan, I came across these cottages.
Alan Johnson
We’re in the midst of a massive pivot in the entire line of work of software development. At least in some places, like where I work, everything is different. Breakneck change A year ago, I thought agents were vaporware and LLMs were not to be trusted with anything where truth is...
Allen Sallinger
I went to Kubecon 2025 this year, over in Atlanta. The main talks I attended were on Backstage and Developer Experience, as well as AI. As everywhere else, AI was a popular topic at the conference. This took place on nearly every level of the platform. Coding Agents, SRE tooling, FinOps, and how...
Alan Johnson
For a few brief moments, my stock holdings in my former employer were hypothetically worth $5 million. This is the wild story of how I realized less than 1% of that value. I’ll be pretty specific about some of the numbers, because equity compensation is a mystery to most people. Until I went...
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #17 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, Let’s talk about pain. Not the metaphorical “growth” kind of pain. But the kind that comes from hour-long wrestling matches with digital products in 2025 that should just work by now—yet, here we are. My latest...
philipjkerr
If you were watching the 2024 Qatar World Cup, you may have noticed the brand Byju’s, among the list of official corporate sponsors alongside Visa, Adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald’s. You may have also noticed the pitch-side adverts for Byju’s, which flipped to read ‘The Future of Learning’. You may...
Sufian Rhazi
Reflecting on a career in tech
gramajo
1. PhotoI haven't been working out as much since my daughter was born. Mostly because of how tired I have been with lack of sleep. But now we are in a rhythm, so this felt amazing. 2. ThoughtsCurrently I am reading "Creators" by Paul Johnson and this quote stuck with me. Sometimes the poverty of...
gramajo
I recently made the decision to move this type of writing into my own personal blog vs my Web3 newsletter. I did this for one main reason, and that was mostly because I did not want to detract from Web3 with my own shenanigans. I felt that some users may not want to be there as I explored my...
Abhijit Jana
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, the journey from a software engineer to a tech leader is both challenging and rewarding. It’s a path marked by continuous learning, strategic thinking, and a shift from individual contribution to empowering teams. In this post, we’ll explore the key...
GNUnicorn
Everything is pay-per-seat nowadays. Pay-per-Seat or Pay-per-user is a Software-as-a-service pay-per-use pricing model, where rather than just paying for the license for using the software, the pricing of is based on the active user (usually per month) has become the new normal. Initially...
Martín Villalba
An article titled Don't talk to Corp Dev has recently showed up in my feed and the HN discussion around it reminded me of this anecdote. To clarify: this story is based on something that happened in real life, as told to me by someone who witnessed it first-hand. Time has blurred some of the...
Karlbooklover
“I’m the Richest Guy in the World” When I think about what constitutes a successful and abundant life, the investor who embodies it best for me is Arnold Van Den Berg. He’s not a billionaire or a genius. He doesn’t own a yacht or a plane. Yet there’s nobody in the investment world whom I admire...
Karlbooklover
“Can you believe that thing, or something like it, is going to take people to another planet for the first time in 4.5 billion years? I mean, probably. It may not work. But it probably will.” Elon This is the second Biography about Elon I’ve read, the first being Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance....
DK
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention is not a history of Netflix. It’s an extended account of the corporate values that have resulted in Netflix’s success as told by its cofounder/CEO Reed Hastings and accomplished business writer & academic Erin Meyer. This well written and...
Lucian Apostol
These days a lot of people rely to video conferencing apps to work, study, or to talk with friends. Until few years ago Skype was the app on everyone lips when thinking at video calls, conferences, etc. They were among the first to introduce and heavily promote video calls, but they lost...
Jonathan
As engineers, why do emotions matter? We develop cool products and get excited about awesome technologies like Deep Learning, blockchain, virtual reality. When we think about SciFi, we might think about Mr. Spock -- the emotion free Vulcan who knew how not to react. For those of us who aim to be...
Jonathan
As an engineering leader, you need to manage processes and lead teams. The days when leaders thought "my people must do what I say" passed long ago. Now, leaders must think and act on this question: "How can I help my team succeed?" As a leader, you learn to operate with constraints. In an ideal...
Jonathan
We live in a society that rewards outgoing people. In her TED Talk "The Power of Introverts," Susan Cain notes this was not always the case, as the drive towards rewarding extroverts began in the twentieth century with the rise of big business. Outgoing people, namely extroverts, get rewarded for...
Jonathan
Engineers enjoy working on cool projects. We're nerds and proud of it. It is one thing to work on a hobby project such as home automation with a Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBD) or developing custom Alexa Skills. Suppose you have an idea for a cool project where you work. How do you...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
Vaguely a propos of the revived net neutrality debate, a while back I saw someone on Twitter claim that it is technically not possible for ISPs to do content-based (as opposed to destination-based) filtering of SSL traffic. This statement seems initially plausible, but is false. I can think of two...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
Ad-supported communication platforms like Facebook have many structural advantages over hypothetical competitors that charge users money directly. One advantage is that a purely ad-supported service can spread virally, from user to user, at a vastly greater rate than a service that demands direct...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
It is clear at this point that Facebook has a monopoly on online human-to-human interaction that no private forces, market or otherwise, will break in the foreseeable future. The network effects from a billion users are unsurmountably large. If we take Metcalfe's Law literally, even a social...
Isshin
TextExpander as Subscription Software When Should Software Be a Subscription Service? I don’t contest the fact that developers need income. I have gladly upgraded TextExpander every time there was a new version, even if the changes weren’t important to me. It’s important to support independent...
Isshin
A month with Apple Watch as my wallet Tom Warren for the Verge: It all started when I left my house without my wallet. I had ventured out to grab some lunch with no cash or cards to pay for it, only my iPhone or Apple Watch. I’ve used Apple Pay on my iPhone and Watch before, but this was the...
Abhinav
I often speak to entrepreneurs, mostly budding or who’ve just started. Every now and then I get this question, how do I figure out how much money do I need or how do I find out how much capital/funding should I raise? A few weeks back, I found myself answering the same question when I started...
Abhinav
Friend: That sounds expensive Me: Why? Friend: I don’t know but this definitely sounds expensive Me: Okay, how much should it cost? Friend: I don’t know, but given the time it takes to be done, it shouldn’t be that expensive Me: The cost of a service is not defined by the effort made by the...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
Disclaimer: I worked for Google from 2006-2013, although not on Fiber. Towards the end of this Twitter thread sparked by Timothy B. Lee, a commenter writes (by way of defending US ISPs): Internet speeds have increased 1500% in ten years. 250k Wi-Fi hotspots are now available. That's progress....
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
More on the taxis vs. Uber in San Francisco beat. I repeat my previous assertion that, anecdotally, ">20 min" is an understatement on weekend nights, and that the decision to use only 3 buckets ("<10 min", "10-20 min", ">20 min") conceals the long tail. As in so many other applications,...
Sam Paddock
Today we launched our new and improved website. #YesPlease!The launch marks an important milestone in our journey. Three years ago, our marketing and IT competency comprised of a handful of people. We were young, ambitious, and full of potential. And we had just enough talent, at the time, to...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
I will fully cop to the fact that my previous bitching about taxis concerned a classic San Francisco yuppie firstworldproblem but here are some more stories about how taxis in many cities serve people of all stripes exceptionally poorly. Relatedly, I took an UberX with a friend the other night...
Keunwoo Lee (Cog)
Disclaimer: Obviously I worked at Google for 6.5 years so take this with the appropriate grain of salt.[0] "I wish Google would just let me pay them money to remove ads from this service. WTF GOOGLE IS SO DUMB AND EVIL WHY WON'T THEY DO THIS." How many times, in various corners of the Internet,...