Journal

I hated vegetables when I was younger. My mother would force me to eat them, and I wasn’t allowed to get up from the table until I did. I would pout and gag and grimace when I had to choke them down. I would take a bite and quickly wash it down with some water …

Working remotely has many considerations. I think it is easy for outsiders to consider it the ideal situation, but nothing is without its drawbacks. Chief among the concerns of working outside the office is the lack of co-worker communication. The 37 Signals blog recently considered this issue in a post entitled “Embracing Slow Time.” In …

The death of Google Reader will probably be met by most with a shrug. Although its fans are very vocal, it was always a niche product that could only appeal to a certain type of person. Unfortunately, I am that type of person, and the hole that Reader is leaving is, so far, only partially …

A recent post on Designer News asked the question, “do you buy ugly software?” I’m not sure how many people have considered such a question, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. I have two case studies, one in which beauty prevails, and the other, utility. Espresso vs. Sublime Text My code editor …

Chris Hardwick defines a nerd as a person with a focused obsession about any single topic. This is a more inclusive definition, implying that nerds aren’t just obsessed with computers and science fiction, but that there can also be car, sports, and food nerds as well. When I was in elementary school, I became interested …

CSS is simple. Over the life a project, however, that simple little file can become quite complex. In an effort to help that, some smart folks came together and created a language on top of CSS that would get processed into normal CSS. They added a bunch of helpful functionality, and then gave us a …