Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of the Weekly Thing. Blogger. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Maybe a podcast? CTO of SPS Commerce, Board Member of MnTech, Former Board Member Minnestar. Minneapolis is home.

Crypto

Forays into blockchain, NFTs and POAPs live here. I write about minting POAP tokens at family events, celebrating Ethereum’s 10‑year anniversary by creating an NFT and even using monitoring services to keep my POAP feeds up and running.

Nov 28, 2017 ∞

Bitcoin went up 21% in the last week! 🤭

Bitcoin price chart showing 21.75% weekly gain from $7,994.82 on Thursday to $10,071.84 on Tuesday

Nov 23, 2017 ∞

I don’t get 1000%+ price increase in Bitcoin. 🤷‍♂️

Bitcoin price chart showing 1015% gain from $731.72 in December to $8,262.01 in November over one year

Oct 23, 2017 ∞

Bitcoin price for last month. Bananas. 🍌🤷‍♂️

Bitcoin price chart showing 53.39% gain this month from 3662.48 to 5780.68 with a peak of 6143.40

Aug 5, 2017 ∞

Bought a trivial amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum. If previous patterns repeat, the price should drop precipitously now. 😊

Mar 25, 2017 ∞

Minnebar 12

T-shirt graphic showing Paul Bunyan in plaid shirt and VR headset swinging an axe, with Babe the blue ox holding a laptop, a drone-equipped wolf in a pine tree, and a beaver with a tablet by a felled

Session 0

Man in glasses and blue shirt speaking at a podium, pointing toward a projected slide reading Surf the Internet with a cartoon wave illustration

Punk Rock/Computing
- Break the rules
- Simple, fast
Point of view is worth 50 IQ points - Alan Kaye

Minnebar 12 on Minnebar

Bearded presenter in a blue shirt speaks at a podium while attendees sit at tables facing a projected slide reading better understand event demand

Random
History
Ideas on future opportunity

Zen and the Art of Agility

Woman speaking at a podium holding a microphone before an audience, with a slide showing Pac-Man labeled Culture chasing a ghost labeled Strategy

Nice Sps plug
Why agile?
Culture > Strategy
Why not time tracking?
- Software is not deterministic
Where is agile right? Predictive v Adaptive v Reactive. Also, very much cost of refactoring

Blockchains are coming!

Audience seated in a darkened conference room watching a presenter at a podium beside a slide reading Blockchains are Coming Forewarned is Forearmed

Quick overview of bitcoin but focusing more on applications of blockchain

Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming

A presenter in a plaid shirt stands before a large projection screen addressing an audience of about 20 people seated in a darkened conference room.

Reactive overview
Functional overview
Good summaries and examples of approach

So you don’t hire Jr. Devs? Tell me more

Large group of people seated in a circle of chairs in a conference room, engaged in a group discussion session.

Weird discussion.
Totally missing the mark on negative unemployment.
Commitment dialogue. Yikes.

Privacy for Everyone

Presenter holding a microphone at a podium beside a projected slide reading Privacy for Everyone Workshop by @EugeneBelinski, with attendees seated facing the screen in a darkened auditorium.

Fine session. Pretty basic advice.

Communicating When Stuff Is Going Wrong

Presenter stands at a podium in a tiered auditorium facing an audience of about 30 people, with a slide listing 4 communication topics on the screen behind her

How to communicate bad stuff.
This will be final update on this incident.
Do not communicate time to repair. Don’t agree with that for production items.

See also Minnebar collection.

Nov 20, 2015 ∞

Introducing the Shift Card ← Shift Card is example of what we need to make Bitcoin actually usable.

Mar 24, 2015 ∞

Don’t see anything Square Cash can do that I can’t do already with Bitcoin. What am I missing?

Feb 23, 2015 ∞

Bummed that I cannot find a single coffee shop or restaurant in Minneapolis that accepts Bitcoin. 🙁

Oct 31, 2014 ∞

I bought $40 of Bitcoin and now I have less money! I thought this was supposed to go the other way!

Oct 19, 2014 ∞

I finally joined 2013 and got a Bitcoin address.

1JNbi6bHfQPMgmizA7NVprz4nj3DBJqAuM