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April 25, 2014

Lolita

It’s called Lolita because that’s the song I was listening to at the time, and it’s also my favorite book. Don’t make it weird. This application is designed to pull interesting stats from your writing.  It requires Quip. I am very fond of @Quip, which released their API while I was at @RailsConf Chicago.  If you don’t […]

Logo for the fictitious tech startup, And Beyond.
April 1, 2014

Designing a Fictional Company

One of the plot devices in my current novel, @gypsy, is a startup company called And Beyond, Inc., which releases the fictitious software, Infinity.  The gist of the software is that it turns your smart phone into a social network, circumventing websites like Facebook, and expanding the possibilities of big data within the context of the […]