Town Hall #20: Pinball

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I'll be visiting the San Francisco Bay Area next week, from Tuesday (Feb 20) to Friday (Feb 23)! Email me at [email protected] if you'd like to grab coffee, resist authority, or play some pinball.

Meanwhile, I've fallen into a research rabbit-hole surrounding Samuel Colt and the birth of the revolver. I know nothing about guns, so feel free to email me with insights and reading recommendations.

Writings

• Clean your codebase with basic information theory
• Podcast RSS XML (in Ugly SQL)
• A Simple SRS Algo (in Ugly SQL)
• An Antidote to Subscription Fatigue
• ☆ Frugly vs. Freemium
• eventbrite.ics
• Nontrepeneur: Steve Wozniak
• Nontrepeneur: Clifford Stoll
• Nontrepeneur: Derek Sivers
• ☆ On Nontrepeneurship
• That Vonnegut/Heller Story
• Everything Worse Than Previously Thought
• ☆ a jar of dirt, or how we failed to exhume my great-great-uncle

Projects

• flashcasts: New thing! It's flashcards in a private podcast feed.
• licensure: I wrote a script that records all changes to licenses on GitHub. I can't remember why I wrote it.
• wishwell.io: The donation/subscription model wasn't working, so I'm pivoting to a model where supporters can pay $250 to purchase crappy drawings.
• wigwam.directory: Added MYOG.
• scrapscript: I've been obsessively working on "scrapland", which is like a GitHub-Heroku-Gmail-GoDaddy-Auth0-BitTorrent-GumRoad-AppStore, painstakingly crafted into the world's biggest ball of yarn. It's probably the coolest thing I've ever made, and it's already surprisingly close to complete.
• blogs.hn: I really want to make an omnibus RSS feed for all the feeds in the directory. Oh well.

Recommendations

You can also scour my entire history of book reviews, album ratings, and active podcasts. You may also want to read about my rating system.

Books

Music