Product management is the function in an organization that plans, organizes, and manages the products the organization makes at each stage of the product lifecycle. In an organization of one, it’s pretty clear who does that job, as it is with every single other job. But as we round the corner to our third or fourth hire, our advisors often start talking about being more deliberate about the product lifecycle and roadmaps. To read more, see: https://www.bootstrappers.mn/post/product-management-in-startups
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The Immutable Laws of Game Mechanics In A Microtransaction-Based Economy
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MacAdmins 195: Getting Ready for the M1 with Erik Schwiebert
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The History of Computing: RFC1
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Jamf After Dark: Cloud Migrations With Kelly Watkins Conrad
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Disable Smart Dashes in macOS
When I’m writing scripts in an IDE, the smart dashes on the Mac can end up killing me. This is where the — turn into —. To disable this feature: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool false To turn smart dashes back on: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool true
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The History Of Computing: The Spread of Science And Culture From The Stone Age to the Bronze Age
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Printing With Expanded Dialogs By Default on the Mac
I’m always configuring something on my printers every time I print. So now I just have it expand the printer dialog rather than give me the simple screen you see here: To configure, just un the following: defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool truedefaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint2 -bool true Then it looks like this. 🙂
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Home Automation Compatibility Grid
I’ve been installing various forms of home automation in my houses and offices for about 15 years. In that time, we’ve gone from Z-wave or Zigbee to Wi-Fi and gone from first having to build a computer in the home to manage the automations to apps to appliances to web services and now a hodgepodge of all of it. I’ve got automations I’ve written in python, borrowed from lovely GitHub repos, and probably 20 times what is running that I’ve deleted over the years. The hardest part seems to find compatibility and know the approximate setup time to expect. Setting expectations is important. Especially if installing an HVAC control means…
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The History of Computing: The Printing Press