Fifty Episode Milestone for the Building Your Startup Series
Back in 2014, I sketched an idea to simplify scheduling apps on a napkin and pitched writing a series about it as a startup to my editor Tom McFarlin at Envato Tuts+. He approved and I got to work. I wouldn’t...
Seattle Landlord Doubles Rent to Force Out Tenants
In Massive rent hikes, remodel renders Lake Union building ‘uninhabitable’, Daniel DeMay reports on a landlord that has increased rent 121 percent — from $1,985 to $4,387, and performed remodeling without a permit in a purposely obstructive way to force out tenants....
The Three Most Popular Meeting Times
My startup Meeting Planner has helped identify the most popular meeting times people prefer. The results are surprising, there are three that stand way above all other selections. Now that Meeting Planner and Simple Planner have been live for more than six months, I...
How to Schedule Team Meetings Easier and Faster
Scheduling team meetings and group events is challenging. Meeting Planner and Meeting Planner makes it easy to help teams choose dates, times and places to get together. Rather than guess at the best time or place, Simple Planner lets meeting organizers...
How to Find WordPress Help
If you’re looking for technical WordPress help, or support installing, securing, optimizing or managing WordPress, take a look at WPNow’s WordPress Quickstart. Incredibly, the first hour of general or technical WordPress support is available for $10 (for a limited time)....
With Amazon, Men Outnumber Women in Washington State
Update: The Seattle Police Department statistics for CY2016 are complete. There were 169 reported rapes in Seattle in 2016, up from 108 in 2015. That’s an increase of 56.5%. Last week, Amazon announced enormous pre-Trump hiring plans and it mentioned...
Major Construction Failure in Ballard, Seattle Building Inspectors Do Nothing
I’ve been covering the complete demolition and rebuilding of 60th Street NW in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood since last year. I posted an update in May 2016 and did this video walkthrough ten days ago. (The story was also popular on Slashdot due to...