{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Wild HQ instincts","home_page_url":"https://wildhq.org/","feed_url":"https://wildhq.org/feed.json","description":"Wild HQ's instincts on creating useful, humane, independent software.","language":"en-AU","icon":"https://wildhq.org/images/lion-logo.svg","items":[{"id":"https://wildhq.org/00/","url":"https://wildhq.org/00/","title":"00 — make things you want to exist","summary":"Most things we make begin with somebody saying, “I wish this existed.” So we make it, use it, and fuss over it until it feels worth sharing.","content_text":"Most things we make begin with somebody saying, “I wish this existed.” So we make it, use it, and fuss over it until it feels worth sharing."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/01/","url":"https://wildhq.org/01/","title":"01 — software should have an opinion","summary":"Software gets mushy when every decision ends in “it depends.”","content_text":"Software gets mushy when every decision ends in “it depends.”"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/02/","url":"https://wildhq.org/02/","title":"02 — taste is part of the job","summary":"Not every decision will surrender to a test or a spreadsheet. Sometimes the type is wrong, the joke falls flat, or the whole thing feels a bit cheap even when…","content_text":"Not every decision will surrender to a test or a spreadsheet. Sometimes the type is wrong, the joke falls flat, or the whole thing feels a bit cheap even when…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/03/","url":"https://wildhq.org/03/","title":"03 — we reserve the right to be silly","summary":"Some ideas win because they're sensible. Others win because somebody says them out loud and the whole room starts grinning. We have time for both.","content_text":"Some ideas win because they're sensible. Others win because somebody says them out loud and the whole room starts grinning. We have time for both."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/04/","url":"https://wildhq.org/04/","title":"04 — leave people alone","summary":"Modern software can be exhausting. It wants your email, your contacts, permission to buzz your pocket, a completed profile, three invited friends, and a…","content_text":"Modern software can be exhausting. It wants your email, your contacts, permission to buzz your pocket, a completed profile, three invited friends, and a…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/05/","url":"https://wildhq.org/05/","title":"05 — we don't need you addicted","summary":"We hope you like our software. We don't want it lodged in the part of your brain that makes you check the fridge again even though you know nothing new is in…","content_text":"We hope you like our software. We don't want it lodged in the part of your brain that makes you check the fridge again even though you know nothing new is in…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/06/","url":"https://wildhq.org/06/","title":"06 — notifications should be embarrassing","summary":"Making somebody's phone buzz is the digital version of tapping them on the shoulder. It should feel just intrusive enough that we think twice before doing it.","content_text":"Making somebody's phone buzz is the digital version of tapping them on the shoulder. It should feel just intrusive enough that we think twice before doing it."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/07/","url":"https://wildhq.org/07/","title":"07 — no tricks","summary":"No fake urgency, countdown discounts, hidden exits, or nagging dressed up as helpful advice. “No thanks” shouldn't be pale grey mouseprint while “YES, TRANSFORM…","content_text":"No fake urgency, countdown discounts, hidden exits, or nagging dressed up as helpful advice. “No thanks” shouldn't be pale grey mouseprint while “YES, TRANSFORM…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/08/","url":"https://wildhq.org/08/","title":"08 — collecting nothing is a feature","summary":"We can't leak, lose, sell, or misuse information we never collected.","content_text":"We can't leak, lose, sell, or misuse information we never collected."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/09/","url":"https://wildhq.org/09/","title":"09 — we don't sell people","summary":"You're a person using something we made, not an “audience segment” waiting to be packaged up and sold.","content_text":"You're a person using something we made, not an “audience segment” waiting to be packaged up and sold."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/10/","url":"https://wildhq.org/10/","title":"10 — ads should serve the room","summary":"An ad doesn't have to be a stranger barging into the room. In an artist community, it might be an artist showing their work. In a marketplace, it might help you…","content_text":"An ad doesn't have to be a stranger barging into the room. In an artist community, it might be an artist showing their work. In a marketplace, it might help you…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/11/","url":"https://wildhq.org/11/","title":"11 — public by design, private by choice","summary":"If somebody publishes something, give it a real address. Let people link to it, subscribe to it, and read it without creating an account or installing an app.","content_text":"If somebody publishes something, give it a real address. Let people link to it, subscribe to it, and read it without creating an account or installing an app."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/12/","url":"https://wildhq.org/12/","title":"12 — we're not your forever home, we're not your last","summary":"You might use something we make for twenty years. You might find something better next Tuesday. Fair enough.","content_text":"You might use something we make for twenty years. You might find something better next Tuesday. Fair enough."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/13/","url":"https://wildhq.org/13/","title":"13 — if it can be a feed, it gets a feed","summary":"If we publish a stream of things, we'll give it RSS and JSON Feed. These are small, sturdy bits of the web that let you follow along however you like.","content_text":"If we publish a stream of things, we'll give it RSS and JSON Feed. These are small, sturdy bits of the web that let you follow along however you like."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/14/","url":"https://wildhq.org/14/","title":"14 — permissionless means permissionless","summary":"An API with a velvet rope isn't permissionless.","content_text":"An API with a velvet rope isn't permissionless."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/15/","url":"https://wildhq.org/15/","title":"15 — your page is yours","summary":"Make it beautiful. Make it hideous. Load twelve fonts and tile a glittering GIF from 2007 across the background.","content_text":"Make it beautiful. Make it hideous. Load twelve fonts and tile a glittering GIF from 2007 across the background."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/16/","url":"https://wildhq.org/16/","title":"16 — we don't choose for you","summary":"Recommendations are handy. So are rankings and clever algorithms. They become a problem when they quietly take over and leave no way back to the simple thing…","content_text":"Recommendations are handy. So are rankings and clever algorithms. They become a problem when they quietly take over and leave no way back to the simple thing…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/17/","url":"https://wildhq.org/17/","title":"17 — the community gets a vote","summary":"A community isn't set dressing for a company. The people who spend their time there end up owning a piece of the place, whether or not the paperwork says so.","content_text":"A community isn't set dressing for a company. The people who spend their time there end up owning a piece of the place, whether or not the paperwork says so."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/18/","url":"https://wildhq.org/18/","title":"18 — the website is allowed to be a website","summary":"Not everything needs to masquerade as an app.","content_text":"Not everything needs to masquerade as an app."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/19/","url":"https://wildhq.org/19/","title":"19 — native first, software second","summary":"Somewhere along the way, the web decided every computer should behave like the same medium-sized rectangle.","content_text":"Somewhere along the way, the web decided every computer should behave like the same medium-sized rectangle."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/20/","url":"https://wildhq.org/20/","title":"20 — use the whole computer","summary":"Your keyboard has shortcuts. Your mouse has more than one button. Your browser can open tabs and windows, remember history, download files, print pages, and do…","content_text":"Your keyboard has shortcuts. Your mouse has more than one button. Your browser can open tabs and windows, remember history, download files, print pages, and do…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/21/","url":"https://wildhq.org/21/","title":"21 — boring technology is underrated","summary":"The industry gets a new favourite framework with reassuring regularity. We don't have to rebuild everything each time it does.","content_text":"The industry gets a new favourite framework with reassuring regularity. We don't have to rebuild everything each time it does."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/22/","url":"https://wildhq.org/22/","title":"22 — clever is expensive","summary":"There is a kind of code that makes its author feel brilliant and everybody else feel tired.","content_text":"There is a kind of code that makes its author feel brilliant and everybody else feel tired."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/23/","url":"https://wildhq.org/23/","title":"23 — unfinished is useful","summary":"Sometimes a rough thing in somebody's hands teaches us more in an afternoon than another month spent discussing the polished imaginary version.","content_text":"Sometimes a rough thing in somebody's hands teaches us more in an afternoon than another month spent discussing the polished imaginary version."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/24/","url":"https://wildhq.org/24/","title":"24 — backwards compatibility is not sacred","summary":"Keeping old behaviour is often kind. Sometimes it's just expensive procrastination.","content_text":"Keeping old behaviour is often kind. Sometimes it's just expensive procrastination."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/25/","url":"https://wildhq.org/25/","title":"25 — unsupported doesn't mean erased","summary":"Unsupported things don't need to vanish into a hole.","content_text":"Unsupported things don't need to vanish into a hole."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/26/","url":"https://wildhq.org/26/","title":"26 — if we can't keep it alive, you can","summary":"We intend to keep what we make alive for a long time. Intentions aren't magic, though, and one day Wild may no longer be able to run something.","content_text":"We intend to keep what we make alive for a long time. Intentions aren't magic, though, and one day Wild may no longer be able to run something."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/27/","url":"https://wildhq.org/27/","title":"27 — small by choice","summary":"We don't measure ambition by the number of people in the team photo.","content_text":"We don't measure ambition by the number of people in the team photo."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/28/","url":"https://wildhq.org/28/","title":"28 — money doesn't get a vote","summary":"Wild isn't for sale. Please don't make us sit through the deck.","content_text":"Wild isn't for sale. Please don't make us sit through the deck."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/29/","url":"https://wildhq.org/29/","title":"29 — we hire adults","summary":"Hiring somebody and then spying on them is a peculiar way to show confidence in your hiring.","content_text":"Hiring somebody and then spying on them is a peculiar way to show confidence in your hiring."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/30/","url":"https://wildhq.org/30/","title":"30 — management is work, not a class","summary":"Coordinating people, clearing obstacles, making decisions, and keeping an eye on the horizon are all real work. They aren't admission to a more important…","content_text":"Coordinating people, clearing obstacles, making decisions, and keeping an eye on the horizon are all real work. They aren't admission to a more important…"},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/31/","url":"https://wildhq.org/31/","title":"31 — disagree with us","summary":"Founders aren't automatically right. Neither are managers, leads, or the person who spoke first and sounded extremely certain.","content_text":"Founders aren't automatically right. Neither are managers, leads, or the person who spoke first and sounded extremely certain."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/32/","url":"https://wildhq.org/32/","title":"32 — mistakes belong to the team","summary":"When one person makes a good-faith mistake, the rest of us don't get to stand at a safe distance and point.","content_text":"When one person makes a good-faith mistake, the rest of us don't get to stand at a safe distance and point."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/33/","url":"https://wildhq.org/33/","title":"33 — yes, we wrote that","summary":"Apparently a tidy paragraph now requires a chain of custody. This one's a bit long. Keep your pitchforks down.","content_text":"Apparently a tidy paragraph now requires a chain of custody. This one's a bit long. Keep your pitchforks down."},{"id":"https://wildhq.org/34/","url":"https://wildhq.org/34/","title":"34 — we can change our minds","summary":"We mean what we say here. We also reserve the right to read it later, wince, and change it.","content_text":"We mean what we say here. We also reserve the right to read it later, wince, and change it."}]}