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Whether you’re curious for yourself or looking for a great gift for a scotch-loving friend, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All from my friends Richard Betts, Crystal English Sacca, and Wendy MacNaughton is a must-buy. I have read this book myself and it smelled great.
Si vous parlez français, vous pourriez profiter de cette interview avec moi sur Journal Du Net.
In about half an hour I’m doing an AMA (ask me anything) on Product Hunt, please join and ask some questions on any topic that tickles your fancy.
I was on VentureBeat’s podcast with Dylan Tweeney, talking a bit about how WordPress came to be and geeking out on some of the tech behind our approach.
Speaking of San Francisco, did you know for 20 years, the military secretly tested biological/bacterial agents there, delivered through the fog?
An incredible story: Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist. Notable for two reasons: I love Ubiquiti’s products, especially their Unifi line, and I’ve never heard of phishing getting so much from a single victim.
Sometimes truth is worse than what you would imagine: Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ.
How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body. Crazy story.
“Customer support, when done well, is a career.” Automattic’s support lead Andrew Spittle on customer success vs customer support.
From one of the best blogs on the internet, Bruce Schnier writes on Why We Encrypt.
Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood? Answer: Maybe.
Open source can have a dark side too, as when malware source code leaks in this story about The Hunt for the Financial Industry’s Most-Wanted Hacker.
Writing for the New Yorker (!) Om Malik compares and contrasts Apple and Google.
How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market — I’ve always said that open source eventually dominates every market it enters, and with enterprise hardware it’s in the very, very early stages but this article is chock-full of examples of the economies of scale when companies start collaborating on shared problems. The problem is one company’s inefficiency and wasted cost is another company’s revenue. Cool to look at in the context of yesterday’s post on government.
How Tesla Will Change The World from the great Wait But Why.
Shervin has an amazing write-up on how Munchery is literally eating the world, and Sherpa’s continuing investment there. If you haven’t tried Munchery yet they’re now in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York.
If you’re following along with the customizer and menu work for the next version of WordPress, check out Trust, Live Preview, and Menus in the Customizer.
Pitch Perfect and its sequel, which I saw a few weekends ago, are the best geeky kind of fun (though I thought there were some jokes that fell flat in the latest). Longreads has an interview with Kay Cannon, the Pitch Perfect screenwriter, How to Be Aca-Awesome and the changing definition of cool.