Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and feelings about things and stuff. It has been a wonderful stage to practice writing in the English language (still needs
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Design for the Fediverse and French Paper.
By Greg Storey
After I devoured Anil’s article in Rolling Stone, I had similar feelings as I did after attending my first SXSW in the spring of 2002—Pure excitement. I got to meet so many folks who were behind the Internet that I loved. SXSW ’02 was a three-day conversation on how the indie web got to…
Five things.
By Greg Storey
“Why our fashion editor buys almost nothing new” popped up in my podcast queue this morning. Though I’m not into fashion the episode title and show notes caught my attention.
Last year, the FT’s fashion editor Lauren Indvik made a pledge that surprised us. She vowed to buy just five new items of clothing and…
A win for independents.
By Greg Storey
This morning I woke up thinking about a story I read yesterday that deserves more attention and celebration. Brandon Kelly, the creator of the Craft content management system, posted this news with little fanfare on Mastodon:
Mind-blowing stat to kick off 2024: CraftCMS is now the 7th most popular CMS among the top 5K domains…
AI is not a silver bullet.
By Greg Storey
This morning I happened across a new publication called Futurism. Doesn’t it always make the day better when you come across a new journal?
Anyhoo, scrolling through the homepage this headline caught my eye—Sam Altman’s Right-Hand Man Says AI Is Overhyped. Sam being the Sam who was fired from OpenAI, hired by Microsoft,…
Don’t throw in the towel, but raise it as a flag.
By Greg Storey
We finished lunch early and headed back to our Airbnb. Almost to the house, an undercover cop car sped through traffic in the opposite lane. It was startling to see the all-black vehicle with distinctive lights seemingly come from nowhere and vanish similarly. My first thought: Whatever they are responding to is not good.
For…
"Why We’re Dropping Basecamp."
By Greg Storey
Duke University Libraries wrote about their decision to migrate to a different project management tool after 10 years. The post is a well-articulated teardown of 37signals co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson’s opinions posted over the course of two years.
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which…
“I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.”
By Greg Storey
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that line. It’s even come out of my mouth on occasion. It’s can’t speak for others but for me it’s not a matter of not knowing what to do, more like, I don’t know which interest I should prioritize. I envy those folks who found that…
Even better than the real thing.
By Greg Storey
Last Wednesday Brett Harned and I took our wives to experience U2 playing at the Sphere. TL;DR: Wow! Magnificent! U2 is still amazing and the Sphere’s debut is incredible.
I have no doubt there are hundreds of articles and blog posts about the experience. Hell, there are bootlegs of the entire show bouncing around YouTube…
Good is the enemy of the great.
By Greg Storey
In his talk, Ten Things I Have Learned, Milton Glaser hands down a list of axioms he earned through an amazing, life-long career in design. I recently rediscovered this document after it sat in a folder marked “save” for a few years. Instead of leaving it there, I thought I’d share these “ten things”…