I’m trying out something new. Since I’ve mostly stopped posting on Twitter I thought I’d try posting an interesting link each week to a long-form story that I found interesting and thought-provoking. You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie [Wired] – an inside look at how Disney plans to run the Star Wars franchise. As a Star Wars fan I’m equally concerned, intrigued, and excited by passages like this: And if the people at the Walt Disney Company, which bought Lucasfilm for… Continue reading
January 2016 Archives
Using Gmail Label Notifications on Android to Disconnect
Last year I wrote about Freedom via Gmail on Android: On nights and weekends when I consider myself “off of work”, I used to occasionally check emails on my computer, which typically involves going into my office, booting up my computer, turning on my monitors, etc. Now I just open up an app on my phone to check to see if anything is important. If there is, I snag my Chromebook or my laptop and take care of it. If there’s not, which is usually… Continue reading
Link Friday: How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers
I’m trying out something new. Since I’ve mostly stopped posting on Twitter I thought I’d try posting an interesting link each week to a long-form story that I found interesting and thought-provoking. How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers [NY Times Magazine] – a look at how DFS really works, written by someone who is a regular player. Most fascinating to me: how the high rollers use computer scripts, and the companies turn their heads the other way for fear of losing… Continue reading
Update Season
The past few weeks I’ve been working on updating and upgrading almost all of the software and services that power our website: the PayPal API, FedEx and USPS 2016 rate changes, and new versions of PHP, MySQL, and Apache. It’s a combination of coding, system administration (not my strong suit), and obsessively monitoring after launch to ensure nothing goes wrong. I tend to save up work like this for January because it’s our slow season, but I’ve never had this much pile up at once…. Continue reading
“Somehow a couple guys from New York are able to out preform Amazon”
Today we received one of my all-time favorite testimonials from a customer: Detailed image is the best place to get your products from. Don’t waste your time dealing with the other guys or amazon. I’ve been there and done that and somehow a couple guys from New York are able to out preform amazon on shipping speed and customer service. I run a shop and two mobile detail units and I’ve decided to only buy from DI. They ship fast, answer any emails right away… Continue reading