The final XOXO Festival wrapped up this weekend in Portland, Oregon. It was my fifth XOXO, and it's been 5 years since the previous festival, XOXO 2019.
There was a particularly strong thread that ran through most of my conversations at XOXO this year. It was braided from questions (pleas?) like the following:
The final XOXO Festival wrapped up this weekend in Portland, Oregon. It was my fifth XOXO, and it's been 5 years since the previous festival, XOXO 2019.
Octothorpes is currently in a sort of liminal stage between launched and not launched, but it got posted to Lobsters and Hackernews today! Which was quite a surprise to both of us. So, if you’re reading this because you found out about us on one of those sites, here’s a little context for the project.
So, we will offically launch the public trial of Octothorpes tomorrow, but now I can tell you that it’s been public and actively used for the last month. In a way, it was more public in October than it is now, but we’ll get to that.
Well hello there friends. It's been a time. You may recall some cryptic "I'm working on a Thing" lines from previous emails. You may have heard this from me...