App defaults Just last night I stumbled on The Small Website Discoverability Crisis post while scrolling Hacker News. And here I am tonight, writing a post based on a viral trend with over 150 personal sites participating so far. The internet finds a way (goldblum.gif). There's another digital world out there; one...

Just had a little rant about A/B testing in a meeting and it's not a terrible take so I thought I'd save it here for posterity.

In yesterdays post I laid out some of my experiences with unikernels and touched a little little bit on wasm technology. While also throwing some docker into the mix as well, because why not. Im trying to reflect on basically ten years of technologies in those spaces between 2010 and 2020. Then trying laying out...

I've mentioned that I'm starting a company with friends - no, this isn't a plug for us. The name of the company won't even be mentioned. We now have five engineers on board, one being a 15-year industry veteran, though we're all working on it part-time. Without getting into the details, I've had a very easy time...

A reader emailed me this screenshot of RWW in March 2005, in order to point out the MyYahoo Ticker at the bottom of the screen. “My RSS headlines stream on the bottom of my screen all day and I click things that catch my eye,” he told me. Part 5 of my serialized book, Bubble Blog, describes my first trip to Silicon...

For as long as I’ve been a Firefox user—almost 20 years at this point—it has featured a “quick find” bound to the venerable / (forward slash) key. Following a pattern established by other software like less, man, and vi the slash key was simple: it finds stuff in the current page. Common patterns like this are...

Some weeks ago, I was so privileged to have been invited to chat about myself and my blog at Manu's new series, People and Blogs. I really enjoyed following someone else's prompts. I never rationalised some decisions about this blog out loud, so it was a fascinating exercise. Since then, I've been thinking about how...