Having been robot-wrangling for a solid year now, I continue to feel like they give me superpowers. However, like all of us, I have a front-row seat to increasingly attractive garbage the robots are capable of generating at scale. I like to think that I am human enough to detect the slop, but the rate… more
Management by Hallway is the style of management when you get out of your office and walk around the office to see who you trip over. It’s by no means a reliable or scalable management style, but it does offer you the chance to strike up a random conversation about a random topic and you… more
T-minus one day until Vegas and I’ve got some great UI for you: First up, Baby NameVoyager. Yes, it’s a baby name site, but some has put serious effort into a stunningly useful application. Go ahead and fire it up and start typing names… slowly… watch what happens… yeah, real time graphical updates based on… more
Designing phenomenal UI is a thankless, unfair task which is full of contradictions. Let’s go over the list of goals for good UI and notice how screwed our UI designers are. Good UI should: Be easy to learn, but powerful to use Be pleasing to the eye, yet not annoying Integrate with a user’s natural… more
I’m fond of my Gmail account. I’ve got enough email accounts out there that pointing all of them at a single account is a time saver. Combined with the Google blazin’ fast search, I feel like I’ve got a usable meta-mail account. And that’s about it. The folders, filters, labels… I know all that stuff… more
I’ve had a couple request for the templates for the new design. Here they are. I’ve included the style sheets as well as a templates necessary to generate the front page. These are templates for Movabletype and will not work for other weblogging software without heavy massaging… or maybe someone has written a slick import… more
I’ve been toying with dock placement on my two desktops for the past few days and have discovered that even with very similar set-ups, I’ve ended up with very different Dock placements. At home, I have two flat panels (20″, 17″). The larger panel is straight in front of me with the smaller being on… more
The main motivation for updating the site was really a nit. The right sidebar looked liked crap on Safari and when I started tinkering with the HTML, I discovered my table-based layout was just not up to snuff. “Standards”, I thought, “XHTML and CSS. That’s the ticket.” Random notes from the experience: Let me first… more
