Because everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy. Like, in my lifetime the changes in the world of programming have been incredible. When I was a kid we had no DOM abstractions and...
image from Words as a Conceptual Map There’s a small bit of setup here – bear with me. I relistened to one of my favorite RadioLab podcasts (‘Words’) this weekend and had my...
I Tried Saying something confuses me is no great claim – many things do. It’s entirely likely that I didn’t study Ember long enough, or maybe I didn’t give it the “time...
Hopefully, You’ve Mused The first two posts of mine on this subject dealt with creating an outline and then executing the basics of a script. This is, more or less, supposed to be a thought...
Drifting In 1986 I dropped out of college. I was 2 years into a meaningless attempt at a degree without a major. I lived in Los Angeles and attended L.A. Valley College taking 12 units of meaningless...
Know What You’re Saying In the last post I did on the matter, we organized our thoughts into a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end. We have some structure, but we’re far from...
Start With a Story I learned this from Scott Hanselman: Have a beginning, middle, and end Don’t waste people’s time Start with the punchline In other words: tell a good story...
Postgres.app Some buzz going around the web today about Postgres.app. Most people don’t understand why it’s interesting – so here’s a quick explanation. Postgres can be...
New. Not New. NDC is dominated by Microsoft developers – many of whom are curious about other technologies like Node and Rails. When trying to describe Node to a Microsoft developer a natural...
Slop The rampant amount of errors you run across (if you use IE with script error notification enabled) will make you sad for the internet. It lead my friend Miguel deIcaza to postulate: Guess a...