Larry and the telemetry treasure

I am looking into how feedback and quality control happened in our beloved games in the 80s and 90s and came across something I learned that I want to share. As I research the subject space, it becomes apparent that especially in the 80s, structured testing and feedback gathering wasn't necessarily a very structured task … Continue reading Larry and the telemetry treasure →

Telemetry and insights into your product

Something that's quite incredible in this modern, ever-connected world, if you're working on a product team, is that you could be getting a wealth of insights from the thing you're building. It must have been hard in the days where you had your product run on isolated machines and never heard back from it after … Continue reading Telemetry and insights into your product →

Building communities

I have been a communities person for a long time. Not necessarily in the sports club type, but in the learn from one another, sit and discuss type. I started my professional career reading, learning and then contributing back to newsgroups. It's been technical newsgroups at first, so people would post their problems and challenges, … Continue reading Building communities →