The rest of the article was good, but this wasn’t the best example and caught me off guard:
> Another way to make things more fun is to solve the meta-problem. Instead of building a web application, try building a web application framework with this as the example app. Not only will the task be more enjoyable, but the result will probably be more useful.
Interesting blog post, but AgileBits should have communicated planned downtime to their customers via email, which they did not. I’ve been a 1Password user for years and recently switched to their hosted offering. I know a massive infrastructure migration is rare, but that’s all the more reason to be transparent ahead of time.
> Another way to make things more fun is to solve the meta-problem. Instead of building a web application, try building a web application framework with this as the example app. Not only will the task be more enjoyable, but the result will probably be more useful.