2013
75 entries
- 30 days of MediumWhat I’ve learned from my first month writing on Medium
- A hack is worth a thousand picturesCould making a prototype be better than using words and pictures to communicate your idea?
- A tiny act of feminismWhich child gets the pink beaker?
- Accelerating serendipityCan you make happy accidents happen more often?
- AttendingSimple, social event pages: free to make, and guests said they were coming with one click.
- Back to #startuplife with MakeshiftI’m doing a new thing.
- BitsyA tiny little service to help makers, musicians, designers, crafters, developers and small business owners sell their stuff directly to the people in their networks.
- Crafty Fox BoxHelped Emily with design and tech around her monthly craft box subscription service.
- Create something every dayWhy I made this my rule for living, and what happens when you decide to make things all the time
- CryptographicsCryptoquilt: quilts, prints and t-shirts that turn anything holding an image into something that also holds hidden data
- A Morning with MakeshiftStef Lewandowski spoke at Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013.
- DMAURLA one-day hack that got around Twitter only allowing white-listed URLs in direct messages
- Hacking at Do Startup
- DoacourseEasy to create online courses
- East Dulwich ForumA quick hack to see if the East Dulwich Forum could be more mobile-friendly and accessible
- FlounderA tiny tool for small teams that helped them follow the people they were all most connected to to their company twitter account
- Get back to the craft
- Hack it in a day
- Hack, Play, Learn — Slides from Google Campus
- Heber Primary SchoolSchool governor at two schools, and chair for three years at Heber Primary School in South London.
- Help Me WriteA very simple service aimed at bloggers and writers facing the common problem of 'what shall I write next?'.
- Higher resolutionsCan you commit to doing something every day in 2014?
- Hire My FriendA service for people who are in a job but want a new one: use your social network to find opportunities without your boss finding out.
- Hack, Play, Learn (Hacker News London)What we’re learning by building play, failure and parallelism into the Makeshift process.
- HugbaseMaking Crunchbase more useful by adding Datahug
- How do you decide whether your idea is worth making?For the last few years, concentrating on “getting good at getting fast”.
- Ignore the newsWhy I gave up listening to mainstream news so I could concentrate on things that matter
- Internet filtering will do more harm than goodI’ve written to my UK Member of Parliament about new opt-out internet filtering proposals aimed at protecting children
- Introduction
- Learning by hackingI do hacks. Tiny prototypes for digital things that I show to people quickly. And for five years I’ve been doing, on average, one a month. I call it sketching with code. Here are some of the things I’ve learnt.
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- LinkydinkThe simplest way to share links with your team
- ListerlyMake and manage a list of people
- Make it up as you go alongI’ve been making up bed-time stories for my kids.Could imagination and improvisation prepare them (and me) for the modern world?
- MakefulnessIs seeking a state of flow what work is really about?
- MakeshiftAn early London venture studio: fifty prototypes, twelve ideas, three taken further.
- Bearable LightnessNew electronic music with a human feel.
- Shift WorkA mix of the stuff that gives a smile when working from the wee hours to the wee hours.
- Hack, Make, ShiftAn overview of our stage-gate process for evaluating new ideas.
- Don’t just do one thingCould parallelism be an appropriate way to find the thing you should focus on?
- Hackathon and on and on24 hours of hacking! Crèche not included
- Hey Twitter! Let me send a private link to a friend…URL be back
- How can we teach all the kids that want to code, how to code?A shedcast with Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder of Code Club
- How to lose form data and alienate peopleOn poor form
- How to send links via direct message in Twitter now they’re bannedA couple of handy hacks for getting round the ban
- Magnificent failures, hand made video game cheat books and the absurdity of startups: An interview with Ryan HooverTalking shop
- Make a useful thing and don’t be a dickStartup or upstart?
- Not just another blogOn making an article engine for Makeshift’s new website
- On the joy of small software!Building things that just do one thing well
- Shedcast #1: Stef on the early days of MakeshiftThe first in our series of podcast conversations from our two-story shed at Makeshift (yes you read that right)
- Shedcast with Joe ScarboroOur first guest conversation in the Makeshift Shedscraper, with Joe from 3 Beards
- Showing your work in progressShow people early, get feedback, listen
- PogoidMore hackable Active Record models with Postgres
- Product PuntA no-code, landing page hack responding to the fact that Product Hunt had lots of people who wanted to post, but couldn't
- RumblerollKeep up to date with your favourite blogs
- SavematesCreate a monthly savings group
- ShhareShare passwords securely
- Sketching with Code
- Stop feeding the beast
- Hack, Play, Learn (Tech Talkfest, Google Campus)“Hack, Play, Learn” is the part of the Makeshift process that precedes the “Build, Measure, Learn” workflow that many people will be familiar with.
- TentoringTen minute mentoring
- The ideas won’t run outSo don’t worry if you have the idea fear
- The Little, Big IdeaHow just doing the first, tiny part of your idea can help you find out what you need to do to really make it a big idea
- This is from everyoneThe Web will only be for everyone when we can say that it’s from everyone too
- Nicholas Bullen — Component Fixations
- Geoff Mullen — Filtered Water
- Hair Police — Mercurial Rites
- Work Death — Phone About To Ring
- Fluxion — Vibrant Forms
- University of BirminghamOne of the governing bodies of the University, with responsibilities including approving the appointment of the Chancellor.
- In conversation: Max Fraser, Stef Lewandowski and Christopher RaeburnWhat a collaboration between a fashion designer and a creative technologist looks like, at Wearable Futures 2013.
- What gets done is what gets doneHow long working hours don’t help you in the long term
- When to give upThe right course of action might be to stop what you’re doing, and regain your biggest asset – yourself.
- Will I really steal your idea?Some people demand signed non-disclosure agreements before they will tell you their idea. I’m not one of them any more and here’s why.
- WranglerA simple way to query and analyse data, and collaborate with your team around reports.