Zach Inglis

Words You Won't Find In The Entire Tumblr Codebase

marco:

• Factory.

Ooh; a game.

• Stability

:D

Factories are quite a useful tool with tests I must say. Considering how many finickity bugs do pop up on Tumblr; I could not expect there to be any tests. Granted that the major bugs seem like server load, there are so many tiny ones that I could only imagine would be bypassed by decent test coverage.

I hardly think Tumblr is the right company to preach on HOW to code, though? Especially when the server outages and bugs are getting more often and worse. If anything; you saying shows the reason to use Factories.

Open Letter To Tumblr

Dear Marco et al,

I have just been alerted to your new ‘Ask’ feature, which gives you exactly the same featureset as Formspring.me. I appreciate the fact you are trying to satisfy the Tumblrverse, but everyone would of been quite happy if you hadn’t. There was nothing broken, so nothing needed fixing on that front.

However; Tumblr is probably THE buggiest website I have ever used. Including Twitter. Everything is broken in some way or another and the website can not stay up for more than 50 minutes. As someone who likes to Tumbl and has a few Tumblogs (some with 1100 followers, some with 2600 followers), it frustrates me no end.

Everyone knows the core principles of a successful web application is keeping your feature-set clean, relevant and to do as little things as possible; as good as possible. This is just an un-needed.

Tumblr is a great place, with a great community but having watched quite a few people leave it because of the lack of visible care going into this place, I wonder what really is happening behind the scenes.

Please can you focus on what makes this website great? And less about random new toy features.

Cheers very much,

Zach

"Your portfolio is pink, I hope you are not homosexual"

clientsfromhell:

After having a quite pleasant phone conversation with a client and discussing a proposed strategy for moving forward, they told me they hope I was not homosexual, because my site looked a “bit gay” with the pink.

I wrote off the hour and a half on the phone and did not proceed with any more negotiations.

My submission got through!

This happened to me a few years ago. I had a lot of comments to me over the years on the pink of my portfolio (I only have a dash at the moment; I need to add more) but I never felt so insulted. It was partly to do with the tone.

The Importance Of Pocket Books.

Many times in my years as an entrepreneur and networker, I have raised the question of best organizational practices. I am constantly looking for quick tips to create a better and more productive me. One of the most vital tools, especially for the forgetful, is a pocket book.

Throughout mine you can find random questions and thoughts. The image above shows one task page list. Other items in the book consist of thoughts like “Best Wacom to get?”, “Do I want to go to Ruby Manor 2?” and “Price for 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens”. Some of which I may have forgot.

While a phone could be a good replacement, I don’t have to worry about eating into my battery which I would possibly need later.

The book I use, as shown above is called WhiteLines* which is only $3 and lovely and minimalist.

* The link goes to Amazon.com and has my affiliate code attached.