The on{X} team has just released a very nice new piece of functionality, the Kitchen. This allows anyone who uses on{X} to very easily write a new recipe, defining novel smartphone behaviors simply by snapping together Lego-like components.
The Kitchen is not only interesting by virtue of what it is, but also by virtue of who made it, and how. It’s one of the first publicly visible fruits of an ongoing collaboration between our teams in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. The Ramallah team is relatively new— we began to scale up our investment there in 2012, though the team has existed since 2009. They’ve been doing really good work. For the past few months I’ve been seeing the code checkin email flying back and forth fast and thick— even during the crisis in November. This made me feel very proud of the combined teams. There is nothing simple about the Israel-Palestine conflict, but it seems clear to me that shared creative work and investment are positive forces. Let’s do more of that!
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