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Barfing Cats and Other Stories from Talking to Weasels in Support
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
We’ve written a lot about weaseling and cheating (combatting it, recovering from it) in Beeminderland, and about how we approach customer support. Today we thought we’d share some of our standard responses... »
Feature Unannouncement: Exponential Roads Going Piecewise Linear
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
We have what sounds like bad news for Beeminder supernerds who use fanciness like exponential roads, but hear us out! We’re getting rid of exponential roads. I know, gasp! We’ve already migrated the small number of exponential roads... »
Beeminder Is Sixy!
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
The last year has flown by like a swarm of bees. We do one of these blog posts every year and they’re kind of a mix between a family Christmas letter and a state of the union address. We’ll spend a while congratulating ourselves on the charming new babies we made this last year, we’ll... »
Press Roundup: 99 More Things The Internet Has Said About Beeminder
Friday, August 25th, 2017
The time has come (the fandom said) to talk of many things. Of books, podcasts, and articles. Of victories and stings. With little further ado other than to point you to our collection of the last 10 press roundups we’ve done, here are all the nice things people have been saying about Beeminder... »
The Bee Team Goes To Amsterdam
Friday, June 9th, 2017
Our Label Ontology For Issue Tracking
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
UPDATE 2018 March: We made some changes! Like changing “REQ” for “feature request” to the semi-standard “RFE” for “request for enhancement” (because the former looked too much like “required” or “requisition”). And adding the “ABC” label for non-technical contributors. See also the comparison with GitHub’s default labels at the end of the post. We’re pretty transparent about how... »
Press Roundup to Trump All Press Roundups
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Last week we had a reporter contact us looking for examples of commitment contracts involving Donald Trump. She was wondering if anyone uses anything Trump-related as an anti-charity or... »
The Shirk & Turk Principle
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
The tagline for Amazon Mechanical Turk is “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”. As in, faking your AI by using humans. Mechanical Turk is named after the contraption in the title image, which was a seeming chess-playing automaton from the late 1700s that was secretly operated by a small human hidden inside. But this post isn’t about Amazon’s nifty service or... »
Fifth Anniversary of Beeminder
Friday, November 18th, 2016
It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 whole years since we were slamming red bull on dirty couches in a college-town garage, with our friends Sergei and Mark, moving fast and breaking things on our scrappy little startup, dreaming big about how we were going to change the world(wide web) with … Oh wait. I mean,... »