Paul Ford

…they were creating were just so darn pretty — and I walked away with a sample of work and a business card in my hand. It was a few years later (now about three and a half years ago) that I found these …

The problem with social mobility is that sometimes the gap between the life you came from and the life you now lead seems unimaginably huge, and it’s hard to reconcile this into a coherent identity. But sometimes, as when I saw my dad with the cosmonaut’s glove, that distance collapses, even if ju…

My mom died in late July 2017. This is, of course, not Equifax’s fault but the timing wasn’t great. It meant that right around the time of the data breach, I had to manage and transmit a lot of sensi…

Those are “just” complex web platforms with millions of users. With phone operating systems like Android or iOS you’re talking dozens of interlocking platforms, billions of users, giant carrier companies like Verizon and AT&T that have complex, mutually-suspicious relationships with handset makers, hardware that is constantly evolving and breaking, and software to bind it all. Manufacturing a phone is like building Rome in a day, under a microscope. Or 2.5 million Romes in a day, since at least that many smartphones are manufactured. It’s one of the most complex things we do as a culture. So the number of variables involved is immense and the amount of product work required is equally immense.

Even though the Yottas had warned guests of their strict no-phone policy, we’d snuck ours in and alerted Mark (who was flying back to L.A. that evening) to the lax security at the party. He…

…rence lies in the flexibility of the two approaches. While Relay is very opiniated and doesn’t give you a lot of freedom in how you want to structure your application, Apollo has a variety of options tha…