Our Path to MVP: Tachyons Being a technical founder ain’t always easy. You have to balance your technical side that wants to play with the latest and greatest technologies, as well as the practical side that wants to build things quickly and efficiently. …

A few months ago Sal Soghoian announced that his position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple was being eliminated due to business reasons. Sal integrated and grew AppleScript support within existing Apple applications, and advocated for AppleScript use within third-party applications as a way to empower users. …

I’ve been working on a new product. This one is a bit different in that our users aren’t developers, nor are they pro/power users. In fact, a large majority of our target market work in the trades–plumbers, electricians, carpenters, handymen, cleaners, etc. WorkWeek is geared towards small, blue-collar, service-based businesses…

Ruby was the first language that made me feel like I could be a programmer. I’d always sorta tried to learn programming — I got books from the mall bookstore “Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours”, “Learn Java in 7 Days”, etc. I don’t think I learned anything from them. …

I recently lost my job for a large tech company — it was sudden and unexpected. It was unexpected because the company had just moved our team to a new office, and they invested a lot of time and money into not only the office, but our remote team. I’d…