diff --git a/bin/backup b/bin/backup index 37fc6e3..c400484 100755 --- a/bin/backup +++ b/bin/backup @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ urls.each do |url| begin title = page_content - .scan(/(.*?)<\/title>/mi) + .scan(/<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\/title>/mi) .first .first .strip diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-ts8csh.txt b/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-yw1bcq.txt similarity index 98% rename from content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-ts8csh.txt rename to content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-yw1bcq.txt index bd81271..b4cd8bc 100644 --- a/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-ts8csh.txt +++ b/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/craigmod-com-yw1bcq.txt @@ -314,30 +314,30 @@ Popular Essays -COVID-19 and Walking Japan +Housekeeping -What it's like to walk across Japan during the pandemic +We're off, tomorrow -Them Post-walk Blues +A Late Night Walk in a Small Southern Town -Considering life after a big walk +Can't sleep, move them feet -Welcome Back to Our COVID Loop +The Cafe With a View of the Waterfall -Back in lockdown, back on the Ridgeline express +On small cafes along world heritage paths -That Shinkansen Whoosh +A walk around Kii in the New York Times -Modernity flowing past rice fields +A photo + text essay about the Peninsula [ ] diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/index.md index f6bf270..1165140 100644 --- a/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/index.md +++ b/content/journal/dispatch-1-march-2023/index.md @@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ Links: [2]: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/programming-is-a-pop-culture/ [3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/style/julia-cameron-the-artists-way.html -[^1-backup]: <a href="craigmod-com-ts8csh.txt">Backed up 2023-04-03 23:56:02 -0400</a> -[^2-backup]: <a href="www-baldurbjarnason-com-7p5031.txt">Backed up 2023-04-03 23:57:18 -0400</a> -[^3-backup]: <a href="www-nytimes-com-tq2xdi.txt">Backed up 2023-04-03 23:57:38 -0400</a> +[^1-backup]: "<a href="https://craigmod.com/essays/electric_bikes/">Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life — by Craig Mod</a>"; <a href="craigmod-com-yw1bcq.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:54:35 UTC</a> +[^2-backup]: "<a href="https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/programming-is-a-pop-culture/">Programming is a Pop Culture – Baldur Bjarnason</a>"; <a href="www-baldurbjarnason-com-7p5031.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:54:36 UTC</a> +[^3-backup]: "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/style/julia-cameron-the-artists-way.html">Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages - The New York Times</a>"; <a href="www-nytimes-com-tq2xdi.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:54:36 UTC</a> \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/index.md index ef75f49..4f8879b 100644 --- a/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/index.md +++ b/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/index.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: - dispatch --- -March was great -- took a two night/one day work retreat, spent a weekend out in the woods with the family, had my annual trip to Las Vegas, and participated in Viget's [Pointless Week][1]. Also got to spend some quality time with Nevie; she's a great kid and it's amazing to see her personality come out. +March was great -- took a two night/one day work retreat, spent a weekend out in the woods with the family, had my annual trip to Las Vegas, and participated in Viget's [Pointless Week][1][^1-backup]. Also got to spend some quality time with Nevie; she's a great kid and it's amazing to see her personality come out. <!--more--> @@ -52,5 +52,6 @@ Links: [10]: https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-03-14-how-to-tell-if-ai-threatens-your-job/ [11]: https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ -[^10-backup]: <a href="blog-testdouble-com-rtepba.txt">Backed up 2023-04-03 23:50:56 -0400</a> -[^11-backup]: <a href="jeffhuang-com-arq78r.txt">Backed up 2023-04-03 23:51:02 -0400</a> \ No newline at end of file +[^10-backup]: "<a href="https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-03-14-how-to-tell-if-ai-threatens-your-job/">How to tell if AI threatens YOUR job: No, really, this post may give you a way to answer that</a>"; <a href="blog-testdouble-com-rtepba.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:39:36 UTC</a> +[^11-backup]: "<a href="https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/">This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web</a>"; <a href="jeffhuang-com-arq78r.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:39:37 UTC</a> +[^1-backup]: "<a href="https://www.viget.com/articles/the-enduring-point-of-pointless-corp/">The Enduring Point of Pointless Corp | Viget</a>"; <a href="www-viget-com-5w5oyj.txt">backed up 2023-04-04 15:52:27 UTC</a> \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/www-viget-com-5w5oyj.txt b/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/www-viget-com-5w5oyj.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73a8832 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/journal/dispatch-2-april-2023/www-viget-com-5w5oyj.txt @@ -0,0 +1,284 @@ +Skip to Main Content +Viget + + • Work + • Services + • Articles + • Careers + • Contact + • Open Menu + +Navigation + +Viget Close + + • Practice + • Work + • Services + • Articles + +We’re a full-service digital agency that’s been helping clients make lasting +change since 1999. + +Contact Us + +People + + • Company + • Careers + • Code of Ethics + • Diversity & Inclusion + +More + + • Pointless Corp. + • Explorations + • Code at Viget + +Featured + + +Read the Article: AI in Recruiting + +Newsletter + +AI in Recruiting + + +Read the Article: The Enduring Point of Pointless Corp + +Article + +The Enduring Point of Pointless Corp + +The Enduring Point of Pointless Corp + +[pointless-sticker-bear-article] +Brian Williams + +Brian Williams, Co-Founder & CEO + +Article Categories: #News & Culture, #Employee Engagement + +Posted on March 24, 2023 + + • + Share + • + Share + • + Tweet + +Pointless Corp. is the innovation lab at Viget, where we step away from client +work to make fun and useful things for everyone + +“Neither pointless, nor a corporation” is how we describe Pointless Corp. here +at Viget. We founded Viget – an actual company – in 1999 during the original +dot com bubble to build web products for clients. Serving clients has always +been our purpose or … point, if you will. Over the decades, we’ve done just +that, completing thousands of projects for hundreds of clients. Never +forgetting that we exist to serve our clients has been key in our longevity. + +About a decade in, we felt the urge to build and launch our own projects. +Pointless Corp became the internal brand we adopted to remind ourselves that +these projects can be fun and useful but don’t replace the primary point of +Viget. A line from Harry Nilsson’s The Point! referencing the Pointless Man +serves as inspiration: “a point in every direction is the same as no point at +all.” We wanted the freedom to experiment in every direction. + +So we did. Ideas and teams formed fairly randomly, and Pointless Projects began +to fill the gaps between our client work. Projects like HeyCraig (2009), which +sent you an email alert based on your Craigslist search (before Craigslist shut +us down and added the feature). Or Tincan’d (2011), a simple video call +platform before Zoom or Google Meet. Or BabyBookie, the baby due date office +pool app over 500,000 people have used since launch in 2012. + +These projects allow our teams to work without the input (including, ahem, +revenue) of clients, so we’re more free to experiment, wear different hats, and +learn … a lot. We apply what we learn back into our client work. Along the way, +we get to know each other better, scratch our entrepreneurial itches, and +hopefully put some fun and/or useful things out in the world for others to +enjoy. + +For many years, we organized an annual optional Pointless Weekend. We’d kick +off hackathon-style on a Thursday evening and wrap on a Saturday evening with a +functional product out in the wild, as I described back in 2012. It’s always +been an intense, enjoyable, but rather exhausting 48 hours. Photos from 2011, +2014, and 2016 bring back some great memories. + +Photos of Pointless Weekend 2014 +Pointless Weekend 2014 spanned three Viget offices + +A couple of years ago, we shifted the schedule to start on Wednesday and wrap +on Friday. This made participation easier, allowing parents and others with +weekend commitments to join. It also allowed projects to wrap up just in time +for our Friday staff meeting. We awkwardly called it “Pointless Week” even +though it was still only two days. + +New for 2023: Pointless Palooza + +Two things I like: alliteration and lollapalooza (specifically circa 1992, but +that’s a story for another day). So Pointless Palooza was an obvious choice for +what to call our little two day adventure. In addition to a new name, we’re +trying a few other changes this year: + +Pointless Executives. Nothing injects new energy like new leadership. We handed +over the Pointless reins to two trusty execs: Andrew (day job: developer) is +our Pointless CEO and Aimee (day job: project manager) is our Pointless COO. +They’ve done a phenomenal job setting a vision, planning, and leading the +activities. Their enthusiasm helped inspire more than half the company to +participate with a record number of projects and great results. + +Pitching & Team Formation. Previously, project ideas were “pitched” with a +single slide and a tight 1-2 minute segment at a staff meeting. These were fun +and lighthearted, but didn’t always capture the full vision, and teams often +formed and morphed during the kickoff night. This year, project ideas were +shared more gradually via collaboration in Slack and Notion. Project teams +formed with more structure in advance, and team members had some time before +the kickoff to marinate on the idea and get excited to build. + +Even More Remote Friendly. There’s something magical about kickoff-pizza, +launch day donuts, and in-person collaboration. But there’s something even more +magical about collaborating with dozens of teammates around the country +(especially when it’s supplemented by sweet swag boxes and Divvy credits for +remote treats). Hybrid teams work. We still had fun in-office connections, but +most of our Pointless Projects this year are being worked on with distributed +teams, much like our client work. + +Photo of Pointless Branded Stuff 2023 +Pointless Branded Stuff 2023 including a t-shirt and sticker pack -- very +corporate + +Some things haven’t changed from prior years. Team members are still swapping +roles – PMs writing code, designers running projects, the list goes on – which +means steep and rapid learning curves. We’re still trying out new technologies +and approaches to our work, which means unexpected blockers and great insights +to share. New connections are being formed, especially since more than half of +this year’s participants are in their first year at Viget and experiencing +their first Pointless event. Forming authentic co-worker connections isn’t +easy, and our culture is stronger today than it was at the start of the week. + +So what projects will launch? I won’t steal their thunder, but we just wrapped +the presentation portion of six Pointless Project teams at our weekly staff +meeting and it was the most we’ve laughed, cheered, and been inspired in a long +time. I expect articles will be written and shared in the days and weeks ahead +outlining the thrills (and mishaps) of the teams this year. + +Photos of Pointless Palooza 2023 +Pointless Palooza 2023 was a blast! + +Pointless Corp. is more than an annual palooza. We work on projects throughout +the year in the gaps between client work, weaving the teamwork, learning, and +teaching values of Viget into all that we do. + +If this is the kind of work and culture you might enjoy, learn more about our +culture and job openings – perhaps you’ll be able to join next year’s Pointless +Palooza. After all, inspiring people to join us is unapologetically part of the +point. + +Brian Williams + +Brian is Viget's co-founder and CEO. He does everything from advising our +clients to building our conference tables with his bare hands in our Falls +Church, VA, HQ. + +More articles by Brian + +Related Articles + + • + + Article + + Our Pointless Logo + + Brian Williams + + • + + Article + + Introducing Pointless Corp. + + Brian Williams + + • + What’s the Point of Pointless Weekend? + + Article + + What’s the Point of Pointless Weekend? + + Brian Williams + +The Viget Newsletter + +Nobody likes popups, so we waited until now to recommend our newsletter, +featuring thoughts, opinions, and tools for building a better digital world. +Read the current issue. + +Subscribe Here (opens in new window) + +Site Footer + +Have an unsolvable problem or audacious idea? + +Let’s get to work + +Contact Us hello@viget.com 703.891.0670 + + • Practice + • Work + • Services + • Articles + + • People + • Company + • Careers + • Code of Ethics + • Diversity & Inclusion + + • More + • Pointless Corp. + • Explorations + • Code at Viget + +Sign Up For Our Newsletter + +A curated periodical featuring thoughts, opinions, and tools for building a +better digital world. + +Check it out + +Social Links + +Viget + + • + • + • + • + • + • + +Office Locations + + • Washington DC Metro + • Durham, NC + • Boulder, CO + • Chattanooga, TN + +© 1999 – 2023 Viget Labs, LLC. 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