Slack is commonly used as a chat tool for teams, but for the past year and a half, I’ve used Slack as a notification center for Cushion. Until recently, I’ve been a one-person team, so people were always surprised when they learned that I had a Slack for Cushion. When you…

Since launching Cushion a couple years ago, we’ve been using AngularJS (1.x) as our front-end framework. If you’re curious how we ended up with Angular, I wrote about the decision (keep in mind this was 2014). I came from…

Recently, I discovered that a specific feature in Cushion was causing confusion for almost everyone who used it. This feature was originally called “Blocks”, then “Project Blocks”, then “Time Blocks”, and now finally “Workloads”. Renaming the feature is another story, but I want to talk…

Reading through this journal recently, I realized that it has slowly transitioned from daily thoughts into well-considered blog posts. I’m glad I’ve continued writing for this long, but I’m disappointed that I’m no longer jotting down the small thoughts that come up between…