Author: Ryan Neudorf

  • Bitcoins: How The Hell Do You Buy Them?

    Bitcoins: How The Hell Do You Buy Them?

    This week I bought bitcoin and it was a lot harder than I would have ever thought. With bitcoin being the most popular and valuable fully virtual currency of all time, I expected the process of buying bitcoins to be straightforward. “After all, I can purchase anything from deodorant to diamonds on Amazon at the…


  • Carousels Are Useless

    Carousels are a lazy and ineffective way to surface content on the web. Stop using them. — End of Post — Earlier this year, Erik Runyon the director of web stuff at the prestigious University of Notre Dame, took a close look at how their users were interacting with carousel content. He found that of the 1% of…


  • Posting Salary is Table Stakes

    Today Marco Arment wrote about how frustrating it can be when employers don’t post salaries. If you see a job listing that doesn’t specify a salary range, assume it’s so low that they’re embarrassed to include it, they don’t respect you enough to tell you, or their heads are so far up their asses that…