Matthew Reinbold

Typically, I take a break from the notes during August; most readers are MIA with their summer vacations, new articles slows to a trickle, and conference revelations dry up. However, in this pandemic-induced, collective Ground-Hogs day time has lost meaning. Besides, people might welcome whatever distraction they can get. So,

Hello! Is it August already? Really? Oh-boy. I don't know who needs to hear it, but this piece on negative habits in the age of Covid-19, by Eric Barker spoke to me: "-we are starting to acclimate, accepting it all as just another episode of the COVID-19

Greetings, and welcome to the 151st day of March! Sometimes putting together this newsletter is pretty straightforward: * Somebody shared a thing * Thing is good * I link to the thing Other times, however, there needs to be a bit more assemblage on my part. So break out the wheat paste, put

Hello! How are you? I've been on vacation for the past couple of weeks due to the July 4th holiday and completing a couple of big presentations. I wouldn't exactly say that I'm rested, but I'm ready to get back to things.

A co-worker just shared this on our company Slack yesterday: "An API service that my husband's company depends on just sent them an email earlier today that said 'we are updating our API endpoints today at 3 pm. Please change all your calls to this new

Happy Juneteenth! I hope all of you reading this are safe and healthy. If there is a sliver of a silver lining to sheltering in place, it is having more time to sample the amazing collection of #BlackLivesMatter media collected by the major streaming services. Michael B. Jordan and Brie

You're busy, I'm busy, and we're all distracted. To the notes! NOTES THE FRENCH 'STOP COVID' APP AND LACKLUSTER API DESIGN The French government published the source code for its Stop Covid contact tracing app. Efforts like these will be crucial to

I hope you and yours are safe, healthy, and able to find what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to as "flow" during this time, even if only for a bit. It is clear that a "return to normal" isn't an option, as "normal" wasn&

Twenty-twenty has been an unusual year. In the process of navigating uncertainty, I missed that this here little endeavor turned FIVE THIS YEAR. I've never been much of the parade and ticker-tape type over arbitrary dates, especially for an email newsletter. However, realizing I've been putting

In the DC area, spring is fully underway. Despite feeling stuck in a loop due to the self-isolation, the changing weather is proof I didn't stumble into a Groundhog's Day scenario. More proof? There have been new posts worth checking out posted online. Let's