{"id":1644,"date":"2011-01-20T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:05:55","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1644\/blast-from-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Blast From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the cues of friends <a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/\">Shawn Blanc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2844476497\">Marco Arment<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mrgan.tumblr.com\/post\/2844876949\/blast-from-the-past-link-day\">Neven Mrgan<\/a>, among others, I&#8217;m digging in to the Red Sweater Blog archives to find some older posts that I think are worth reading, if you missed them the first time around.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of highlighting things that others have written, but since I don&#8217;t have a convenient repository of these items, and haven&#8217;t got time to scour my mind for suitable candidates, I&#8217;m sticking to what I know best. Presented here with a brief synopsis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/69\/adis-a-las-computadoras-dell\">Adi\u00f3s a las Computadoras Dell<\/a>. On the eve of Apple&#8217;s transition to Intel processors, I speculate that the end is nigh for Dell.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/83\/magical-code\">Magical Code<\/a>. Based on my experience working at very low levels inside Apple, and on my own high level stuff, I dispel the notion that any code is so <em>magical<\/em> that you can&#8217;t understand it.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/100\/five-things-i-may-or-may-not-know\">Five Things I May or May Not Know<\/a>. Particularly meaningful for folks who are grappling with the idea that their full-time work is not for them, and are toying with the idea of branching out on their own.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/184\/the-road-less-traveled\">The Road Less Traveled<\/a>. The story of my transition from a full-time Apple engineer to a self-bootstrapped software business owner.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/218\/forget-the-shortest-path\">Forget the Shortest Path<\/a>. Wisdom inspired by lessons in sailing. Sometimes moving directly at your objective is not the most pragmatic way of reaching it.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/481\/it-should-be-free\">It Should Be Free<\/a>. My reaction to the expectation among some customers that things should be free. I dig into the true cost of &#8220;free&#8221; things.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/825\/getting-pretty-lonely\">Getting Pretty Lonely<\/a>. My rant against the GPL open source license.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/1225\/elements-of-twitter-style\">Elements of Twitter Style<\/a>. My fairly recent prescription for getting the most out of Twitter, while annoying the fewest.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, as always, for your attention to my blog and my writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the cues of friends Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment, and Neven Mrgan, among others, I&#8217;m digging in to the Red Sweater Blog archives to find some older posts that I think are worth reading, if you missed them the first time around. I love the idea of highlighting things that others have written, but since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}