Week #674 & #675
Week #674 In February we are staring three parent surveys for schools in Iceland. That means a bunch of prep work. For longitudinal data reasons, we tend to not change questions much, but new ones are...
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02023 TIL
Much like 02022 TIL, throughout 02023, each day we’d look at a few news websites and grab a few interesting headlines and paste them into a text file. These headlines are completely biased to both...
View ArticleWeek #676 & #677
Not a whole lot to discuss this last fortnight. We’ve been heads-down on projects which means a tight, deep focus rather than a wide net to catch interesting ideas. Week #676 This week was mostly...
View ArticleWeek #678 & #679
Week #678 It is the start of February, so that means several things kick into gear. We started two large parent surveys which run for this month. That means emails, SMSes, robocalls, more emails, flip...
View Article02023 Annual Report
Each year, we try to put some rough numbers together. It can be depressing to look at other companies and see all the amazing stuff they produce and look back at yourself and wonder how unproductive...
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Week #680 & #681
Experience it 3 times, once when it happens, again when you write it down, then a third time when you read it again. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that these week notes are also a reminder of...
View ArticleWeek #682 & #683
Week #682 This week we started yet another survey. This month it is our staff survey. Given it is a shorter month due the last week in March being Easter, we needed to be on top of starting on time...
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Backup 2.0 DAS Edition
Back in 02022, we wrote-up about our backup setup. Since then, we’ve recently shuffled a few things around to continue to improve. If you haven’t read it, you should first read Backups. 3-2-1 Backup...
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Week #684-686
Week #684 The San Francisco skyline through an Infrared filter. This week was spent in San Francisco. It is the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) and we went to have some meetings. It was pretty...
View ArticleWeek #687 & #688
Week #687 We started the week with a few potentially new projects down-under in Australia. Most of these projects fall into custom software development: Data Bridge category. Companies have data in...
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Week #689-#691
Week #689 We’ve been working on an internal project this week. We’ve teamed-up with some old co-workers and went deep, fast on this little app. Given our years of expertise and 3 attempts and this...
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Week #692 & #693
Week #692 We’ve been tinkering with an analog book of games. We printed a few awhile ago using the Kindle Direct Printing service to get some feedback. This week, we took a second iteration based on...
View ArticleWeek #694 & #695
Week #694 Monday was a public holiday in the US, so it was pretty quiet around here. We worked a bit on a CSV conversion project for an Australian company and put the finishing touches on that. We had...
View ArticleWeek #696 & #697
Week #696 On Monday, Apple’s Word Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off. We have several projects going on in the Apple ecosystem, so we’ve been keeping a close eye on some of the new software...
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Network Plumbing
There was a meme about how every tech person has a draw full of cables that MIGHT someday be useful. This image had two drawers full of messy cables, the first said “When you’re under 40”, the second...
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Week #698 & #699
Week #698 This week we wrote an article called Network Plumbing about our current hardware network setup and how we got from old slow internet speeds to a much faster, better managed with a more...
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Week #700 & #701
Week #700 On Monday, we had our Friday PETALS meet-up. We went over each of the screens. The goal is to clean-up some of the text and design, use the data to focus the story and general clean-up and...
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Week #702 & #703
Week #702 On Monday, we posted on social media some Puffin pictures taken in Borgarfjörður eystri. The post continued to get boosts for several days. The photos were taken with the TinType app, and...
View ArticleWeek #704, #705, #706
Week #704 Monday was a public holiday in Iceland, it was Commerce Day or Verslumannahelgi. It is a big travel weekend and bookends the summer holidays. Wednesday we got back to the Reykjavik Office...
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Week #707 & #708
Week #707 As one project wanes another waxes. The amount of time we’ve been spending on the Miami project has decreased. They’re in good shape; onboarding customers and prepping for raising a round of...
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