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Thoughts on creating digital products, notes on product and marketing management and reflections about building things other people use. Insights about running a business on the internet – and occasionally technical blogposts, too. [See all posts by year]

2020 was not that bad

Dec 28, 2020 · 17 min read

It feels weird to say this considering that, well, this has been 2020 – but I think this may have been my best year so far.

The odyssey of publishing an app in the Mac App Store

Dec 25, 2020 · 20 min read

Many Mac developers choose to self-distribute their apps, without publishing them in the Mac App Store (MAS), which sounds counter intuitive: why wouldn’t anyone want to reach as many potential customers as possible?

The no-bullshit approach to making hard decisions

Nov 17, 2020 · 6 min read

When evaluating how to make a hard decision, one thing to consider is that the default tendency of things is staying the same, not changing.

Animating a SVG path with a fading ghost trail effect using D3js

Feb 8, 2018 · 4 min read

Facebook sharing not scraping URL correctly with HTTPS links

Oct 17, 2017 · 4 min read

If you’re getting errors with your Facebook URL preview while sharing on Facebook or using the Sharing Debugger, and you’re trying to share an https link, chances are you might have some issue with your SSL certificate. Don’t worry, it’s easy to fix.

Prestashop is a piece of s**t

Jul 16, 2017 · 5 min read

Prestashop is a real piece of snit. A source of endless frustration. The root of all evil.

Prestashop import error: «Technical error: Unexpected response returned by server. Import stopped.»

Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

TL;DR: Reasons may vary, but you can find the info you need to fix the error inspecting the current AJAX request with your browser’s developer tools. For me it was that because of the ordering of my Excel sheet I was trying to create a category before its parent had been created.