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Archives for August 2014
We simply wouldn’t want to use a service that could disappear tomorrow, or worse, shoves ads in your face, or disrespects your content,
Why I Killed My Newsletter
The other day, talflanchraych asked me why I didn’t have a newsletter. I told her that I had found the exercise to have been more time consuming than valuable.
It’s actually a bit more complicated.
I started my newsletter in Spring of 2008. I had a couple hundred people on my email…
approach
- follow the instructions. make sure it works the way the author intended first. arrive at a working state. this is usually not trivial.
- study its structure. change something small that is a step towards making the thing you are after.
- test to see if it still works.
- if it does, keep your change. if it does not, undo it to return to a working state.
- repeat from step 2 until you either give up or arrive at the thing you were after.
When you aren’t sure and want to step back, go HAM.
Recent projects
I have built a lot of 1 week graffiti experiments during the past few weeks
The last email was filled with graffiti pictures. It takes a while to put together, so I haven’t been driven to make a second one…yet. Ive made 13 different projects over the last few weeks.
Recently, I have built:
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web crawler,
- a machine learning graffiti detection tool,
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a portfolio tool for graffiti artists
, - a graffiti themed twitter bot
, - a aspiring weekly email newsletter
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posters for self promotion
, - a small graffiti picture game
, - various website landing pages
, - a showcase of high profile graffiti in the news
, - a data visualization of a popular graffiti artist
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many reddit experiments
, - multiple iterations of a landing page
, and - plenty of meetings/emails/blog posts.