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The other day year doing support, we ran into someone with a goal named “studying_4_out_of_the_8_first_hours_of_the_day”. We were so offended by this that we’re writing a whole blog post about how not-ok that goalname is. Beeminder is highly »
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Contra Positive Reinforcement: Why Beeminder Is A Glutton For Punishment
Friday, March 26th, 2021
Previously on the Beeminder blog: debating negative vs positive reinforcement and, in case you care about using these psychology terms correctly, clarifying that »
The Burgle Bug Fairness Principle
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Beeminder’s bug classification system is like so: Bitty Bugs are barely bothersome. Baneful Bugs make Beeminder blatantly wrong, but not in any breach-of-contract way, unlike… Bum-steer Bugs which may make you derail by leading you astray about the state of your graph, or, worse: Bamboozle Bugs making our marketing mendacious... »
Strategy Memo: Beeminder Is Pledge-Focused
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Since we like letting you all peek behind the curtain of Beeminder, let’s dive in with this internal strategy memo that our beeloved Queen Bee sent to the team last month, reproduced here verbatim: Howdy my sweet bee people, We’ve subjected you to a lot of polarized ideas about Beeminder pricing over the last month. Whee! I’m... »
Death To Lifetime Plans
Saturday, January 9th, 2021
Announcement! Beeminder has stopped selling lifetime plans. Obviously if you already have one, we will honor it forever and ever . We’re just not selling new ones. We’ve thought about this hard and have five(ish) reasons: Inability to give lifetime people premium credit Special cases and complexity in the subscription logic Lifetime plans take away your leverage as... »
Upside-Down Support
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Strategy Memo: Beeminder Is For Nerds
Saturday, November 7th, 2020
This is crossposted at essay.dev which is clearly also for nerds! For years we’ve gotten advice to »
Road Ratchet Revamp Redresses “Ratcheting Breaks Breaks” Bug
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Are you somehow stumbling upon this blog post without knowing anything about Beeminder? Hoo-boy are you in the wrong place. But here’s a frenzied attempt to catch you up in time: Beeminder graphs your progress toward goals by drawing a bright line, called the Yellow Brick Road, that you commit... »
Happy Now, Beeminder?
Friday, September 18th, 2020
Programming note (not that kind of programming; we could call it a doubly meta note?): The blog is now mobile-friendly! You’re welcome. This week we (by which I mean our robotic minions, by which I mean Google Alerts) noticed a Beeminder-relevant blog post out on the internet. It’s very short so I can... »
How To Write Functional Specs II: The Spec-List
Friday, September 4th, 2020
Writing software involves a lot of backing yourself into corners. For even the simplest-seeming program, you find yourself adding duct tape and chewing gum to satisfy different requirements and logic bugs that come up. Then you gradually whittle it back down and end up with a few simple lines and it’s... »