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What Clients Want
A potential client calls and wants a website, as a web developer you are more then happy to help. You show them your work, explain how your work is better then the rest and sell the person on the importance of Web Standards. Do you think that a...
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WriteDaily Check-In: Data Integrity and Why Auto-Save Still Has Not Lost a Word
18 months in, WriteDaily's auto-save has processed 500,000 save operations without a single lost word. Here's what makes the reliability layer work and why it matters for any tool that holds user-generated content.
Read moreWriteDailyDaily WritingData IntegrityAuto-SaveReliabilityWriteDaily Micro-Update: Export, Data Portability, and a Note on Privacy
WriteDaily now exports your writing to Markdown and plain text. Every word you write belongs to you — here's what we shipped and how we think about data portability.
Read moreWriteDailyDaily WritingData PortabilityPrivacyProduct UpdatesWriteDaily at Year One: Building a Habit Engine and What 10,000 Writing Sessions Reveal
A year into WriteDaily, the daily writing tool at writedaily.co has processed over 10,000 sessions. This post reflects on what the data says about writing habits, the technical challenges of building a habit-formation engine, and why I'm more convinced than ever that daily writing with feedback loops changes how you think.
Read moreWriteDailyDaily WritingWriting AnalyticsHabit FormationLIWCSentiment AnalysisProduct LessonsData ScienceWriteDaily Update: Sentiment Graphs, Streak Tracking, and What 2,000 Writing Sessions Taught Me
Four months into WriteDaily, the daily writing tool at writedaily.co has evolved significantly. New features include LIWC-powered emotional pie charts, streak tracking, and weather context. But the real insight comes from the data: patterns in writer productivity, emotional states, and what separates consistent writers from those who burn out.
Read moreWriteDailyDaily WritingWriting AnalyticsSentiment AnalysisLIWCHabit FormationProduct IterationPerformance and Development Review Template
Performance and Development reviews are an important aspect of everyone's career where ever you happen to work. We needed to provide standardised reports that were kept in a staff members file. **Here's an example:** ## Performance and...
Read moreJob Interview Assessment Form Template
Back in the days of old, we used standard templates for a lot of company documents to ease & standardise communication throughout the business. Here's an example of a job interview form that was used to summarise an interview and share it around the...
Read moreStudio Policy Bible
Every business needs some policies to keep teams aware of everything they need to know and working smoothly. Here's one of our old policy documents that's a little skewed towards a game development studio but most of it should apply to most types of...
Read more200+ RSS feeds from carefully cultivated reading list
Over the years I've found that RSS feeds have made it easier for me to keep up the latest news in my reading list. I have a carefully cultivated list of 200+ home & work related feeds that I patrol every day. Here's how to import my list for...
Read moreWhat I was responsible for as Studio Head
I'm having a bit of a dig about in some old documents and I found my old job specification for when I was Studio Head for Kuju Sheffield. **Studio Head Job Summary** The Studio Head has ultimate responsibility for building and maintaining a...
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