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Give your attendees the wheel
At one of our conferences, people walked into the venue on the first morning, and did what 99% of conference attendees do upon arriving at…
Have your passports ready
Three truths — two that are probably self-evident, and one learned through experience:Few things in life expand a person’s mind more…
Sit in the bad seats
You can have the most incredible programming, and the perfect group of people, but if the chairs are uncomfortable or sight lines are…
Togetherness
Many of our favorite gatherings have had to move online, from conferences and live performances, to team meetings and birthday celebrations…
Flexibility
An exercise in flexibility and making plans when so many circumstances are beyond your control. Your browser does not support the…
Groundedness
An exercise to help you feel grounded, despite what might be happening around you. Your browser does not support the audio element…
Spaciousness
Dear friends,During the best of times, it’s hard to carve out time and mental space for big picture creative thinking. Right now, with fresh…
The Last Bite
We think and talk a lot about building and strengthening relationships with customers. The conversations tend to focus on first impressions…
Announcing our new cold read assessment
If you haven’t heard yet, we’ve recently started publicly offering a new assessment based on feedback from our clients and readers. As I…
Transitioning to CEO and sharing as we go
I was a guest speaker for a program that a friend was facilitating last week, and she asked me what motivated me to write the first version…
Ch-ch-ch-changes: The formation of Talky, inc. and a new CEO for &yet
We’re making a change in our organization and roles that I’m really excited about.&yet is spinning off Talky, inc. as its own company, with…
The value of an outside perspective
I don’t think I need to convince anyone that having another person review your work is a good thing. It’s probably already built into your…
Swag can be object-free
We’ve previously talked about corporate swag being broken. “Thanks for this bag of trash” is an absolutely fair response at a lot of…
A technical look at Facecamp
We recently released face.camp, a Progressive Web App (PWA) that allows you to take animated gifs of your face and share them with your fave…
Introducing Facecamp: Chat your mug!
Hey friends with faces! We just launched a little app called Facecamp over at face.camp. With Facecamp you can share short, animated gifs of…
Project Meh-nagement
How to be unopinionated about process, but still keep things on track.Lately I’ve settled into a role where I act as project manager on a…
A simple, casual approach to blame-free retrospectives
Let’s talk about project retrospectives! Project retrospectives (sometimes called post-mortems) are pretty loosely defined as a meeting held…
The Great Gatsby (Blog Transition)
Over the past several years, static sites have had a bit of a rebirth. Heralding back to the days of FTPing plain HTML and CSS files to a…
Assess yourself! Lead generation edition, Part 3
You’ve made it to the final part in our lead generation self-assessment series. High five!To recap, we’re defining lead generation as the…
Assess yourself! Lead generation edition, Part 2
Ready to continue assessing your lead generation? Awesome.To recap from our first post, we’re defining lead generation as the strategic…
Assess yourself! Lead generation edition, Part 1
One of the ways we use creative technology to help our clients strengthen their customer relationships is by assessing their lead generation…
Thanks for this bag of trash
Helloooo! Over the past eight months or so, we’ve been doing a lot of pontificating over the meaning of life (and &yet). We now know the…
Long live blogs
Have you heard? Personal blogs are back in a big way.The industry is seeing people and teams moving away from centralized platforms and back…
An &yet logo refresh
A visual back-and-forth between the old &yet logo and new.Have you had some work done?Hitting certain age milestones has a tendency to…
Sabbaticals and muscle memory
In the middle of 2018, I took a 3-month sabbatical from work. It was something I’d been wanting to do for over a year, while I was…
Behind the scenes: a remote holiday party
&yet has been remote-friendly for a long time, but right now we’re the most remote we’ve ever been. We have team members in Seattle…
&yet recommends
In December the &yet team had an all-day, all-remote holiday party. One of our activities was live-collaborating on a Recommendations doc…
Peek inside our home office setups
Ever wonder what other people’s home office setups are like? Well my friend, wonder no more. (Okay, you can wonder a little. These are only…
SimpleWebRTC: Under the hood
The original SimpleWebRTC was one of the first Javascript libraries for WebRTC out there; the first public version was released more than…
Upgrade your style with &yet desktop wallpapers
One thing I've noticed since starting to work for &yet is how much pride everyone takes in the company; the employee love for &yet is…
Introducing the New SimpleWebRTC
Hey guess what? Today is SimpleWebRTC beta release day! We know how difficult using WebRTC can be, so we decided to make it simple (see the…
Starters, finishers, and large development teams
When evaluating programmers, it’s very easy to see the value of someone writing a lot of new code. Do not, however, fall into the trap of…
A whole new SimpleWebRTC is coming. React, appropriately.
Very soon we’ll be shipping a brand new version of SimpleWebRTC, and everything about it is different.What’s different?The biggest feature…
Celebrate Pride with your friends at &yet! 🏳️🌈
Earlier this year, we teamed up with our friends at npm to design some shirts for Pride. When they asked us about working with them on the…
Simplifying the Talky ecosystem with React Native
To the thousands of people who made Talky calls on February 14, 2017, Talky didn’t seem much different. There were some icon and button…
Giving Talky a Case of the Zoomies
On the last page of Matt Nelson's seminal work "#WeRateDogs: The Most Hilarious and Adorable Pups You've Ever Seen", you'll find a…
What about a conference makes it meaningful 🤔
One of the weird and wonderful perks of being in the tech industry is the sheer volume of events available for everyone to attend, whether…
Voyage across the Clouds with Kubernetes
In the DevOps world, Kubernetes is kind of a big deal. Since 2014, when development first began, Kubernetes has become the preeminent…
What I recently learned about leadership
A few months ago I became a team lead. It was a pretty unexpected role shift. I’d always considered myself more of a worker bee than a…
Investigating the ban on Talky in the UAE
Open roadI began my adventure working at &yet in January of 2018, and one of my first experiences was when suddenly, traffic on Talky…
Background Noise
What media or music helps you work efficiently and stay focused?There are probably as many features about productivity advice on the…
Why give a conference talk? But also, why not.
Earlier this month I was deciding whether I should speak at a developer conference in the fall and found myself waffling between a pros and…
The official title of this post is “Lift off” (in honor of how good NLF’s puns are), but just to be clear, it’s about the fact that npm acquired ^lift and nsp
It’s with fifteen gallons of mixed emotions that we announce that our friends at npm, inc. have acquired ^lift security and the Node…
Why do work without a practical purpose?
The first website I ever made was a fansite for a local Phoenix band called 17FourEyes. I was obsessed and compiled everything I knew about…
Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2017 refresh
Over the past ten years I’ve made ten different versions of my website. I call it my annual portfolio “refresh” since the content usually…
A theory of belonging
I used to feel like I belonged on the Internet. I didn’t feel like I belonged much anyplace else, but here, I knew who I was, and I could…
Introducing the &yet Community
June 2nd and 9th sold out; register for the June 16th adventure!The Internet has created the world’s most unsafe and heartless communities…
Paginating your hapi api
Most APIs will eventually run up against the problem of paginating data. Sending entire data sets in one request is simply too expensive…