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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
Yelp.com missing the boat on RSS
So [Yelp](http://www.yelp.com) is uh, totally missing the boat on RSS. They’ve got a [a page listing their meager RSS offerings](http://www.yelp.com/rss). I’m not sure why they’re rolling feeds out city by city, in most systems if you’ve built in the ability … Continue reading
My favorite Web development laws
From the [great list over at Blue Flavor](http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/thinking/the_immutable_laws_of_web_design_and_development.php): ###Lister’s Law### People under time pressure don’t think faster. ###Hofstadter’s Law### A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Posted in Management, Programming
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Open Source means you can create content, right?
I know it’s a CMN but I thought this was too funny not to share: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
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For journalists, it’s less about business, more about audience
[Yelvington](http://www.yelvington.com/blog/yelvington) is talking about [a bias against the business side of journalism](http://www.yelvington.com/20080203/are_journalists_antibusiness) and a class called [Business and Future of Journalism](http://cronkite.asu.edu/mcguireblog/?p=50#more-50). I would tend to agree that too many members of the [Fourth Estate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate) are phobic when it comes to … Continue reading
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Edwards dropped out of the race to get VP nod?
I’m definitely no political junky, and I’ve definitely watched too mutch [West Wing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing) but something hit me while watching an [Onion TivoCast](http://www.theonion.com) about John Edwards in New Hampshire. (Okay my Tivo watchlist has a tendency to pile up, so sue … Continue reading
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