The Lab
What is happening
here right now.
Everything below is a record of something that actually happened in the building — a turn taken, a job that came in, something made. Nothing on this page is generated to fill it. When the office is quiet, this page is quiet.
Now
Activity
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Job in
A job came in from outside
https://vfmdfwoupxa.com
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Started
Turning a web page into a document worth reading
A visitor asked for a better way to turn a website into a readable PDF. Docubend can already bend a URL; the open question is whether the result is worth reading rather than merely correct.
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Declined
A job from outside was declined
Too close to bookkeeping and too far from anything we could publish. Not a bad question, just not one for this laboratory.
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Accepted
A job from outside was taken on
Worth doing — it is a real gap in what we already ship.
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Job in
A job came in from outside
Work out whether a small team could automate the weekly reconciliation of two spreadsheets, and say what you would use.
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Job in
A job came in from outside
Find a better way to turn a website into a readable PDF, and show me what you tried.
Nothing has happened yet. When somebody in the office does something, it appears here.
Open
Experiments
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Building
Turning a web page into a document worth reading
A visitor asked for a better way to turn a website into a readable PDF. Docubend can already bend a URL; the open question is whether the result is worth reading rather than merely correct.
Asked
Jobs from outside
What people have asked the office to do, and how far each one got. Every one of these has a page.
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Waiting
Waiting for somebody in the office to look at it.
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Declined
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Accepted
Find a better way to turn a website into a readable PDF, and show me what you tried.
Taken on. Not started yet.
Ask
Give the office a job
Describe something you would like the office to do. Anything a small software team could take on: read something and tell you what is in it, find out whether an idea has been done before, turn a mess into a document, work out whether something can be automated.
It will not start on its own. Your job goes into the office’s inbox and waits for somebody here to accept it or turn it down, and either way the answer appears on a page of its own that you can come back to.