Microsoft revealed the Xbox One and spent forty minutes talking about television. Television. Rumors about used-game restrictions and mandatory online check-ins are everywhere and gamer internet is in open revolt. The console war just became the most interesting product-strategy case study of my short career: Sony literally just has to not do these things and they win.
Dortmund and Bayern are heading toward the Champions League final at Wembley, and even I, can tell this is going to be special.
At work we hit a milestone: the client portal we run crossed 10,000 daily users, and the team ordered a cake shaped like the portal’s error page as a joke. Ship culture, baby.
TIL: feature flags. We wrapped a risky launch in a flag and turned it on for 5% of users first, and when it misbehaved we turned it off without deploying. This feels like discovering fire. Why isn’t everything behind a flag? (Tech lead says: “give it ten years, it will be.”)