Season 3, Issue 29: Pika Party 🎉
Take me to the party, Marty!
1. Posing Pika to the People
Kids these days with their loud music and their Dan Fogleberg. Their Zima, hula hoops and pac-man video games. They have attention spans that can only be measured in nanoseconds! What they need is a place to relax, feel at ease, stretch their minds, and write. They need a blog!
It’s time to throw all caution to the wind and open Pika for sign up! That’s right, Good Enough is joining the incredible wave spreading across the internet (circa 2004) and unleashing on the world our take on blogging software. We’ve spent 2023 experimenting with all sorts of software, but I just couldn’t get out of my head that all I really want is a lovely text box on the internet to write some words as well as an easy place to tend to my personal website. Thankfully the rest of the team indulged me and now with Pika we are going back…to the future!
If Pika interests you at all, please read more about why we built Pika and what to expect from Pika at today’s alpha launch. Then get yourself signed up! As you play around, don’t hesitate to reply to this email or write us a note with your thoughts and feedback. —Barry
2. The Week That Was
This week we wrapped up the alpha version of Pika and added an important feature to Letterbird. We also spent some time planning the rest of this year and thinking about 2024.
Matthew tried to install a new thermostat in his apartment and broke the building’s boiler (he’s ok, don’t worry). James got a root canal (he’s ok, don’t worry). Patrick announced, scrambled eggs and Indian leftovers might be a top 5 favorite meal for me. Arun’s been feeling a bit under the weather, and so have I (my fingers are icy cold right now). Barry went to see pro wrestling one night and reported back, “The best was one moment where the face and heel were slapping each other back and forth and the entire crowd was yelling YAY! BOO! YAY! BOO! for like 15 iterations. Amazing. Too bad I don't have audio.”
Oh, it’s December! —Shawn
3. Feed me
I am here to tell you that Good Enough will not be publishing a holiday gift guide. Every website and newsletter on the planet seems to have published their own guide which makes me feel like maybe I’m breaking the law by not issuing our own, but I just can’t do it.
Well, that’s a bit of a lie. As our resident product reviewer, I absolutely intended to use my column space this week on some junk you could spend your hard earned dollar bucks on. But this week has been very distracting with scheduling issues and making actual real progress building a new feature for Letterbird.
Have you seen Disney’s wonderful movie Soul? It has a great score written by Trent Reznor, but more importantly I’ve been told by someone who knows things (hi, Arun) that it does a great job depicting what it’s like to be in a flow state. Characters who fall deep into flow lose sight of what’s important and forget to enjoy the world around them. Well, today I got a bit too into the flow and looked up from my work only to see that it was almost 1:30 and I hadn’t written this column or eaten lunch.
I’m a bit hangry. [Editor: he had a taco, and it wasn’t very good.]
—Patrick
4. Sharing Is Caring
Patrick shared this purple toilet with us and we still don’t know why he did it.
tldraw is doing all kinds of crazy things and we can only chuckle at this owl-drawing demo.
I don’t know much about these guys but they have an extraordinary website.
Barry shared this lovely collection of colorful rotary phones.
And, last but not least, Arun shared these delicious doodles he made:
We asked Arun how he made those drawings and he gave us the following instructions:
Let pen wander freely.
Occasionally emphasize something that seems interesting or fun.
Repeat #1 and #2 in any order until you're done.
5. In Conclusion
A reminder from Tony, via The Good Enough Guestbook (sorry, live stream down at the moment but we’ll put it back up next week!).
Please do stay hydrated and stay clear of goblins, and if you want to blog, consider Pika, please? Hope you have a calm and colorful weekend. See you next week.