Paul Ford
Co-founder, . Still writing a book about web pages for FSG. What even is code?
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Why We Love Enterprise Codeless — Postlight — Digital Strategy, Design and Engineering
Postlight — Digital Strategy, Design and Engineering 153d 1 tweets
Last week Google released a new product called Tables, which takes square aim at (i.e., looks exactly like) "codeless" development and workflow-management ...
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Paul Ford I wrote about the new API-without-middleware stacks we're using at , and why I love them, and how they are weirdly 100% enterprise-compliant. 153d
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software
Wired 161d 5 tweets
The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.
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Paul Ford When I write in my column that I love receiving screenshots of messy software, I mean it, and I absolutely want you to DM me or email me pics of the mess you put up with and why you hate it (purely for my own edification, I will never share them). 161d
Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds'
Vice.com 175d 11 tweets
What I learned by reading thousands of internal emails about the Chinese mystery seeds.
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Physical Culture v84n03 [1940-09] (-74, 80) (Restored Cover) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet Archive 215d 1 tweets
Physical Culture v84n03 [1940-09].Note: The scan is missing pages 74 and 80.
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Paul Ford I would die for the Internet Archive. 215d
Title not found
Rsci.app.link 219d 1 tweets
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Paul Ford So I've spent hours and hours (“Amazing Military Infographics” by Paul Ford ) and like always you start in disbelief and come away with empathy, and some sadness. 219d
Textmoji
Textmoji.app 286d 1 tweets
Make text emoji for your Slack team with Textmoji. A Labs project from your friends at Postlight.
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Paul Ford is a new project from Labs. It lets you make fun little “textmojis” for that you can quickly add to any conversation. It's ridiculous and good. 286d
GraphSketcher
Ftrain.substack.com 286d 2 tweets
Bananabears, the Seattle firm The Omni Group has been around for a long time in software. Originally it was a firm that made software for the NeXT computer. Then Apple bought NeXT and based Mac OS X, so over the ensuing years The Omni Group made a...
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Paul Ford I wrote another newsletter post, this time it's about sketching graphs 286d
All This Time
Ftrain.substack.com 287d 1 tweets
Pumpkins, this platform (pronounced subs-tack, as in something that submarines do when they turn bow into the wind) lets me see which one of you has opened and read the newsletter, individually, which is unbearably gross. I will not be looking at...
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Paul Ford Well I keep updating my newsletter today it was because I had time since am baking bread which takes forever and is STILL NOT DONE but I finally stopped rambling and documented an artifact 287d
Careers — Postlight — Digital Product Studio
Postlight — Digital Product Studio 291d 1 tweets
Yes, we’re hiring! We’re building an extraordinary team that loves to make great digital products—come join us.
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Paul Ford We are looking to hire a number of people , especially skilled designers and experienced product managers. Those departments used to be NYC-only, but we're adapting, and are glad to talk to people from anywhere in the US. 291d
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Public Media Stack: a user's guide for public media organizations. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Zoom Video 293d 1 tweets
A webinar for public media organizations introducing them to the Public Media Stack, a new guide to ethical public media technology launched by Storythings, supported by Luminate. This one-hour session will introduce participants to the project,...
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Paul Ford Do you like WEBINARS about MEDIA TECH? (I do, alas.) + many others have been working for months defining the “Public Media Stack“—i.e. media frameworks that aren't run/controlled by giant firms. Tuesday May 19 noon ET they're sharing their stacks. 293d
Account
Account-account.netlify.app 299d 1 tweets
Tell stories with numbers
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Paul Ford Here's a little Labs web experiment I've been building over the last two weekends. It lets you tell stories with simple embedded math and sliders. Give it a whirl and yell at me. 299d
Stones, Clocks, and What We Should Actually Leave Behind
Wired 314d 1 tweets
Tomorrow has no use for our monuments. It needs our data—and warnings.
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Paul Ford A few months ago WIRED asked me to become a monthly columnist. I wrote one column, then they had a special issue on global warming so I stood back. Then I wrote an essay about domain names, but COVID hit which made that seem ridiculous, so I wrote this 314d
De Blasio and Carranza in coronavirus masks resemble Old West bank robbers
New York Post 328d 1 tweets
Those aren’t masked bandits — that’s the mayor and schools chief. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza were caught leaving a press conference at the Alfred…
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Paul Ford I've never said this before but I swear to God it's hard to believe this is not The Onion. 328d
MTA | Subway, Bus, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North
Mta.info 1308d 9 tweets
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Paul Ford FRIENDS do you want a big editorial job in downtown Manhattan? Where your work reaches millions of people... you're fairly compensated... and your coworkers are kind? Work with at the MTA to edit + operate (and much more). 517d
Content Manager / Strategist
Google Docs 517d 1 tweets
The MTA is building a team of human-centered strategists, designers, writers and technologists to reimagine the customer experience for the millions of people that we move through the city each day. We’re looking for a content manager and strategist...
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Paul Ford FRIENDS do you want a big editorial job in downtown Manhattan? Where your work reaches millions of people... you're fairly compensated... and your coworkers are kind? Work with at the MTA to edit + operate (and much more). 517d
Amazing Military Infographics
Paul Ford - Medium 530d 1 tweets
An appreciation
Uses This / Interviews
Usesthis.com 558d 1 tweets
A collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done.
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Paul Ford If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair, I finally finished my interview, nine years after asked. It's 3,300 words so take your time and savor every Emacs mention. 558d
Uses This: Paul Ford
Usesthis.com 558d 2 tweets
Developer, writer, CEO (Postlight)
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Paul Ford If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair, I finally finished my interview, nine years after asked. It's 3,300 words so take your time and savor every Emacs mention. 558d
The American Room - The Message - Medium
Paul Ford - Medium 620d 2 tweets
Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes
Nytimes.com 630d 4 tweets
It’s a pleasure to watch software improve. I read the change logs, and I think: Humans can do things.
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Paul Ford I would like to share with you, the readers of the New York Times Magazine, my deeply normal love of reading open source project git commit logs. 630d