• 100 Posts for 2021

    I am happy to say that as of yesterday, I am back on schedule to have published 100 posts by the end of this year.…

  • Standing for Something

    I want to see more companies start to actually take a stand on issues. That’s one of the things I respected about Basecamp. Until their…

  • April 28, 1995

    Today marks 26 years since I said goodbye to my mom for the last time as I walked out the door to wait for the…

  • Basecamp and Leadership

    So, Basecamp announced some internal changes this week for how they are going to run their company. Over the years, Basecamp has built up a…

  • My Sweet Setup: Carbon Copy Cloner

    Carbon Copy Cloner is one of those tools that focused on doing one particular thing, but it does it incredibly well. The thing: copying everything…

  • Constant naming and lookup in Ruby

    I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how constant lookup worked in Ruby, but I encountered a surprising piece of behavior recently and…

  • Knowledge Work Is Different

    Every now and then, I’ll be feeling out of it and I’ll step away from work. Maybe I’m feeling sick or fatigued, or maybe I…

  • My Sweet Setup: NetNewsWire and Feedbin

    When you look at NetNewsWire you can just tell it’s a Mac app through and through. At first it might feel a little spartan, but…

  • My Sweet Setup: RSS

    Being an RSS user is probably one of my most unconventional and nerdy habits, but they’re such a better way to experience the internet I…

  • My Sweet Setup: Displays

    I know what you’re thinking here: “Aaron, if you went whole hog on the tower, why didn’t you complete the set by buying the XDR…