'''Maciej Cegłowski''' is a Polish-American web developer, businessman, speaker, and writer who is the owner of the bookmarking service [[Pinboard (website)|Pinboard]].<ref name="readwriteweb-boring">{{cite web |url= http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/02/pinboard-creator-maciej-ceglow.php |title= Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More |author= Klint Finley |date= February 10, 2011 |work= ReadWriteHack |publisher= [[ReadWriteWeb]] |accessdate=December 30, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="economist-fame">{{cite web |url= http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/price_fame |title= Price of fame: Stick a pin in it |author= G.F. |date= April 4, 2011 |work= Babbage |publisher= ''[[The Economist]]'' |accessdate=December 30, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist">{{cite web|last1=Tate|first1=Ryan|title=Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist|url=http://www.wired.com/2012/12/worlds-cheapest-venture-capitalist/|website=Wired|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>

==Career==

Cegłowski was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1981.<ref name="Web Design: The First 100 Years" /> He attended [[Middlebury College]], where he studied Russian and French.<ref name="Middlebury">{{cite web|title=Middlebury College Students Receive Watson Fellowships|url=http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/archive/1997/node/264328|publisher=[[Middlebury College]]|accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref> He then became a software developer working at [[Yahoo!]] in [[San Francisco]].<ref name="Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone — By Choice">{{cite web|last1=Dell|first1=Kristina|title=Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone — By Choice|url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2094921_2094923_2094924-2,00.html|website=Time|accessdate=20 April 2016|quote=Ceglowski started Pinboard in response to the demise of Delicious, a social website that preceded both Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo bought Delicious in 2005 and removed many of the features users liked. "I thought it was becoming less useful," says Ceglowski, who worked at Yahoo in 2007 on a different venture.}}</ref><ref name="An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard">{{cite web|last1=Perrine|first1=Tom|title=An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard|url=https://thuktun.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/an-interview-with-maciej-ceglowski-of-pinboard/|website=Thuktun (blog)|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref> He has also written for websites such as ''[[Wired (magazine|Wired]]''.<ref name="How to Hide from the Internet while travelling">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=How to Hide from the Internet while travelling|url=http://www.wired.com/2016/03/how-to-ditch-the-internet-while-traveling/|website=Wired|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>

== Speaking and writing==

Cegłowski is particularly known for speaking at conferences on software development, and through his [[Twitter]] pages, which he uses to joke about the failings of other [[Silicon Valley]] companies.<ref name="techcrunch-comments">{{cite web |url= https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/09/dear-facebook-why-are-facebook-comments-so-unremittingly-terrible/ |title= Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible?|author= Jon Evans |date= 2016-04-09 |publisher= ''[[TechCrunch]]'' |accessdate= 2016-06-19 }}</ref> and hyped ideas.<ref name="techcrunch-money">{{cite web |url= https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/21/and-realpolitik-for-free/ |title= Money For Nothing For Everyone |author= Jon Evans |date= 2015-11-21 |publisher= ''[[TechCrunch]]'' |accessdate= 2016-06-19 }}</ref><ref name="register-ifttt">{{cite web |url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/30/love_our_open_api_talk_to_our_lawyers_says_if_this_then_that/ |title= Love our open API? Talk to our lawyers, says If This Then That |author= Richard Chirgwin |date= 2016-03-30|publisher= ''[[The Register]]'' |accessdate= 2016-06-19 }}</ref> He has written and spoken extensively on the problems of advertising-funded services with dubious business models.<ref name="Inside Higher Ed">{{cite web|last1=Fister|first1=Barbara|title=Maciej Ceglowski's Internet Repair Kit|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/maciej-ceglowskis-internet-repair-kit|website=[[Inside Higher Ed]]|accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Advertising Bubble">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=The Advertising Bubble|url=http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm|website=Idle Words (blog)|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Doctorow"></ref> He has described programatically generated advertising and data mining as a business model that encourages the growth of surveillance.<ref name="Doctorow">{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Big Data's religious faith denies the reality of failed promises, privacy Chernobyls |url=https://boingboing.net/2015/10/07/big-datas-religious-faith-de.html |website=Boing Boing |date=2015-10-07 |accessdate=2016-06-19}}</ref><ref name="huffpo-crossroads">{{cite web |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/advertising-week/digital-advertising-at-th_b_8989994.html |title= Digital Advertising at the Crossroads: Will Angry Consumers Block Brands? |author= Zak Pollack |date= 2016-01-15 |publisher= ''[[Huffington Post]]'' |accessdate= 2016-06-19 }}</ref><ref name="Doctorow-">{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century |url=http://boingboing.net/2015/11/03/big-data-refusal-the-nuclear.html |website=Boing Boing|date=2015-11-03 |accessdate=2016-06-19}}</ref> In particular, Cegłowski has compared large stocks of data on Internet users to the archives of Communist secret police services in his native Eastern Europe, as a threat to user privacy that may increase as archives remain in existence.<ref name="atlantic-sin">{{cite web |url= http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/?single_page=true |title= The Internet's Original Sin |author= [[Ethan Zuckerman]] |date= August 14, 2014 |work= |publisher= ''[[The Atlantic]]'' |accessdate= November 13, 2014 }}</ref><ref name="What Happens Next Will Amaze You">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=What Happens Next Will Amaze You|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm|website=Idle Words (blog)|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Persuading David Simon Gruber">{{cite web|last1=Gruber|first1=John|title=Persuading David Simon|url=https://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/06/18/ceglowski-simon|website=Daring Fireball|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Internet With a Human Face">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=The Internet With a Human Face|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm|website=Idle Words (blog)|publisher=Beyond Tellerrand Conference|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref> He has also criticised immersive web design for being [[Software bloat|bloated]] and unsuitable for consumers with a poor internet connection.<ref name="Web Design: The First 100 Years">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=Web Design: The First 100 Years|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm|website=Idle Words|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Website Obesity Crisis">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=The Website Obesity Crisis|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm|website=Idle Words (blog)|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Is Google’s Fight With Facebook Undermining a Web That’s Fair to Everyone?">{{cite web|last1=Dale|first1=Brady|title=Is Google’s Fight With Facebook Undermining a Web That’s Fair to Everyone?|url=http://observer.com/2016/03/google-accelerated-mobile-pages-facebook-w3c/|website=Observer|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters">{{cite web|last1=Gruber|first1=John|title=Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters|url=https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/01/02/website-obesity-crisis|website=Daring Fireball|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Doctorow-tools">{{cite web|last1=Doctorow|first1=Cory|author-link=Cory Doctorow |title=Tools, ads, and bad defaults: Web bloat continues unabated |url=http://boingboing.net/2016/01/01/tools-ads-and-bad-defaults.html |website=Boing Boing |date=2016-01-01|accessdate=2016-06-19}}</ref><ref name="Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters">{{cite web|last1=Gruber|first1=John|title=Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters|url=https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/01/02/website-obesity-crisis|website=Daring Fireball|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Website Obesity Crisis">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=The Website Obesity Crisis|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm|website=Idle Words (blog)|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Web Design: The First 100 Years">{{cite web|last1=Cegłowski|first1=Maciej|title=Web Design: The First 100 Years|url=http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm|website=Idle Words|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Doctorow-botwars">{{cite web|last1=Doctorow|first1=Cory|author-link=Cory Doctorow|title=Botwars vs ad-tech: the origin story of universal surveillance on the Internet|url=http://boingboing.net/2015/10/05/botwars-vs-ad-tech-the-origin.html|website=Boing Boing|date=2015-10-05|accessdate=2016-06-19}}</ref><ref name="techcrunch-block">{{cite web |url= https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/26/i-like-to-block-it-block-it/ |title= I Like To Block It Block It |author= Jon Evans |date= 2015-09-26 |publisher= ''[[TechCrunch]]'' |accessdate= 2016-06-19 }}</ref><ref name="Doctorow-human-face">{{cite web|last1=Doctorow|first1=Cory|author-link=Cory Doctorow|title=The Internet With a Human Face: Maciej Cegłowski on the things we need to fix|url=http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/the-internet-with-a-human-face.html|website=Boing Boing|date=2014-05-27|accessdate=2016-06-19}}</ref>

Cegłowski has also spoken at conferences about his experience of running his own company, including listening to users from the fandom community and "failing really, really slowly" (working on a project for a long time instead of looking for immediate success).<ref name="uk-dconstruct">{{cite web |url= http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/09/10/notes-from-dconstruct-2013/ |title= Notes from dConstruct 2013 |author= Matt Sheret |date= September 10, 2013 |work= |publisher= [[Government Digital Service]] |accessdate= December 17, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="wired-slowly">{{cite web |url= http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/the-next-big-thing-you-missed/ |title= Why the Most Ambitious of Tech Startups Should Fail Slowly |author= Ryan Tate |date= November 19, 2013 |work= The Next Big Thing You Missed |publisher= ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' |accessdate= December 17, 2013 }}</ref> Cegłowski has discussed prioritising simplicity and stability over using cutting-edge technologies for building Pinboard in order to reduce cost and allow his company to remain simple and practical for a single person to run.<ref name="readwriteweb-boring" /><ref name="The Website Obesity Crisis" /><ref name="An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard">{{cite web|last1=Perrine|first1=Tom|title=An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard|url=https://thuktun.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/an-interview-with-maciej-ceglowski-of-pinboard/|website=Thuktun (blog)|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref>