Self Dog Fooding

Using stuff you create DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20140820

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• http://indiewebcamp.com/selfdogfood

is a specific form of dogfooding

• using your own creations on your own personal site that you depend on, day to day
• Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.
  • Søren Kierkegaard - introduction to Provocations

has several required components

• the first two of which it shares with dogfooding:
  • active creation (whether code, UX, interactive/visual/graphic design)
  • use of that creation (e.g. by your company)

use

• you yourself personally using your creation for your own personal uses
  • it's not just part of your day job that you shut off when you go home
• self identification/dependency
  • using your creation in some manner that represents you, your self
  • part of your primary identity on the web
  • act of creation alters an aspect of the public "self" of the creator

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