What’s the secret to making money on the web? If you ask some arbitrary business-type, chances are they’ll start frothing at the mouth, do a little bobble-head dance while their eyes roll back into their head and they squeal: “Traffic, traffic, traffic!” It’s easy to get caught up in this mentality. Of course! If people […]

Sumana Harihareswara on the Fog Creek Weblog explains how FogBugz plays a central role in customer management at the company. Especially impressive to me is the part about how incoming voice messages get automatically converted to tickets with a voice attachment. Thought 1: I wish I had a dedicated server so I could run FogBugz […]

I’ve decided to, at least experimentally, ditch my links blog. That blog was born out of a fear that posting quickie links in here would drive away readers. But it was a major pain in the butt for me to manage two “blogs” just to achieve this artificial separation. The thing is, I don’t like […]

The contractors are abuzz in the neighbor’s building, hammering, spackling, and chatting loudly with each other. I sit here staring into Xcode, furiously trying to figure out an NSTextField drawing issue, when I hear a choice bit of wisdom echo through my office: “I just fuckin’ hate working on windows, man.” Amen to that. Apparently […]