C33 Technology

Work

Not So Unlimited Vacation Policy

I was catching up on Marco Arment’s writing (marco.org) recently and his link from December 14th caught my eye. Arment links to a piece talking about the lie that is the common startup benefit of “unlimited” vacation days (From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy). It’s a good piece and certinaly worth a read but Arment’s comments are what specifically caught my eye:

Politics

That Has to Change

The New York Times has a nice, but short, profile on the CTO of the United States of America and the lede stood out to me in particular: President Obama’s top technology adviser cringes when she hears highly educated adults say how bad they are at science and math, particularly when they do so in front of children.

Project

Sentence Saver for Beats Music

Ever since I made my little Clojure wrapper for the Beats Music API, I was on the lookout for a companion project where I actually use the library the make an app. I know, a totally 100% novel idea. I just deployed a little web app I’m calling the Sentence Saver for Beats Music, and it solves the problem of being able to enjoy the Beats Music “The Sentence” feature (basically their radio feature) while offline by giving you the ability to request a sentence and then having those tracks made in to a playlist.

Beats Music Likes My Clojure Library

I’ll do a full post on the library some time soon. In the meantime, check it out: http://mikeflynn.github.io/beats-clj/ @mikeflynn_ created a Clojure library, now on the developer portal https://t.co/XgTD39uQ5E #beatplatform #clojure — Beats Platform (@beatsplatform) June 19, 2014

Media

A Follow Up on the STLToday Paywall Story

Yesterday’s post about how to bypass the weak STLToday.com paywall has gained a fair bit of traction over the last 24 hours. Here’s the story on the Riverfront Times (the alt newspaper in St. Louis). Before this gets further out of hand I wanted to address a few points that I didn’t hit in my original blog post and weren’t in the RFT article:

Media

STLToday’s Paywall is Weak

I’m originally from St. Louis, and in fact spent my last few years in St. Louis working with and taking on the media in one form or another. I’ve since moved on and no longer concern myself with the day to day craziness of St. Louis’ bizarre media scene…but I do like to check up on the sports.