{"id":411,"date":"2014-08-15T06:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/?p=411"},"modified":"2015-10-28T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T21:10:46","slug":"ice-is-the-new-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/techblog\/ice-is-the-new-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"Ice is the new coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/08\/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup\/\">interesting article<\/a> about Stewart Butterfield, the guy who founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">Flickr<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/slack.com\/\">Slack<\/a>. It is about Stewart and how he went from growing up on a commune in Canada to founding Flickr, getting bought out by Yahoo, and beyond. It&#8217;s a very interesting look at internet companies from the &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221; days up until today.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Stewart and a co-founder of Slack are talking about ice. Yes, <strong>ice<\/strong>. Mainly about how clear a good ice cube is and why that is critical to making a good drink. I thought the conversation was a bit extreme until I remembered reading about ice recently on blogs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2014\/08\/05\/fancy-kickstarter-ice-kits\">Marco&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseyliss.com\/2014\/7\/25\/neat-ice-kit\">Casey&#8217;s<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So.. I guess ice is the new coffee. People have moved on from obsessing over the perfect coffee and are now worrying about making perfect ice. Personally, I do care about my coffee (at least <a href=\"techblog\/the-coffee-manifesto.html\">to some extent<\/a>) but I don&#8217;t see the fascination with ice. I&#8217;ll sit out this craze and wait for the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an interesting article about Stewart Butterfield, the guy who founded Flickr and Slack. It is about Stewart and how he went from growing up on a commune in Canada to founding Flickr, getting bought out by Yahoo, and beyond. It&#8217;s a very interesting look at internet companies from the &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221; days up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}