I’m having a great time learning to use both while working on the CSS for this blog. Being able to track which changes I like, while getting visual diff’s of the changes I make, is awesome and makes me much more productive. One thing I’m missing from this workflow is the ability to modify the CSS, preview it on the site in real-time, commit my changes both to my Git repo, and then have it deploy to the site automatically. Today, my workflow is: ...
This bike is going to get me above 2,000 miles this year. Maybe. I think. So far I’ve got 134 miles just this year. It’s barely been up to 60F most days yet, and as the spring and summer get into full swing I imagine a lot of my time will be spent riding this thing. Pros of a brand new bike: It’s exciting to ride - newness! It’s got the best gearing I’ve ever had on a road bike (50/34 combined with 11-34 cassette). It’s shiny and new. Cons of riding a new bike: ...
Some shots taken with Halide camera app for iPhone and edited with Adobe Lightroom. ...
Garage cleaned, junk tossed, New workbench setup and put in place, Soon-to-be old road bike serviced, cleaned, and running well with new 50/34 crankset (longer post on this coming soon), Excellent new beer (see below) found and consumed. All in all, loving today. [contentcards url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BtgLChDlNQN/] ...
Ben Thompson (Stratechery): What makes subscriptions work is an alignment between editorial and business model: the former is incentivized by quality and differentiation because the payoff is a customer with a high lifetime value… […] The proposed Apple News model, on the other hand, which pays out according to reader engagement, pushes in the opposite direction — the Facebook direction. The motivation is “to maximize clicks” and “win a pageviews arms race”; sure, the driver isn’t low-margin advertising, but shifting the means of monetization doesn’t change the ends as far as incentives go. ...
