TL;DR If the purpose of AI is to become a programmers best friend, shouldn’t we address a few issues in open source funding first? When I was first coming up in programming, it was the early 90s. I was lucky and had the privilege to have a computer that was able to run a very early version of turbo linux red hat...

Read on the website: We always told stories. We always will. Though our stories fit into 140 chars now, which is both a blessing and a curse.

For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to craft a sturdy set of design principles. To make design less “magic” to outsiders. To help designers stay focused on what matters. To further legitimize a chronically overlooked source of value. My favorite effort was Nelson Joyce and I collaborating with Josh Porter to...

Una de las cosas que más me frustraba de Pages era no poder elegir el tipo de letra por defecto. Ya escribí en algún momento que es de las cosas que más me gusta de Word. Aunque en Pages la tipografía por defecto es Helvetica, que en general es una fuente con la que no se puede fallar. Pues resulta que sí se puede...

Any leader in a mid-to-large-sized organization has to learn how to run a team or an organization with average talent. You can't always hire the best of the best. You can't scale a team at a good hiring pace when searching for the best engineers. Even if you try, you'll make mistakes and hire an average or...

In the past I’ve watched designers hop from company to company every other year and thought to myself: Wow, what on earth are they doing? How can they possibly learn anything, how can they contribute anything meaningful to an organization if they’re stuck in an endless cycle of quitting and starting over again?...

I spent the spring studying various programming languages, and that resulted in a bunch of notes. So why not publish them in one place for everyone to see? I called them "the art of choosing tools". There's not much yet, but it's only the beginning, and I hope you'll find something to like in there. / In other news,...

He closed his eyes and took a nap, The shortest nap that ever was took. He opened eyes to a warring map; Its frenzied chiefs their threats exhaled. At darkened days with fear he shook And prayed that wiser heads prevailed.

What is a girl to do when her startup goes kersplat? Why, she blogs about it, of course!

The Books app on iPhone (previously named iBooks) allows you to highlight text and leave notes. Unfortunately there's no good way to export these, as the information isn't stored in the ePubs themselves. The information is saved in the Media folder though, which is accessible from iPhones over USB. I built an app to...

June 21, 2024 Hey friends, as I mentioned the other day, I’m switching to iA Writer for my blogging and writing. This means capturing my ideas directly in iA Writer. Since GoodLinks is my go-to read-it-later app, I’ve created some Custom Actions that seamlessly transfer content from GoodLinks to iA Writer....

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Many of the designers I've worked with on web projects in the past would complain about being "stifled" by web standards.