Blogs are abandoned all the time. Somewhere between 50% and 99% of blogs are started and then quickly left for dead, after that initial honeymoon period of content and inspiration fades and the hard work of producing something interesting and lasting persists over the months and years. Maybe because it's so easy to...
Hm, it's been a while since I last wrote; I tried to keep the post-per-week schedule intact, but work has a way of killing the literary spark at the end of long days, themselves a part of a series of long weeks. Creativity takes a nose dive in favor of technical fidgetry. Writing...
Hi 2012, nice to meet you. I took a small break from writing this blog at the end of last year to revise the design a bit. Now that I have a few months' worth of work experience under such an accomplished design company like Square, I wanted to go back and reapply the...
Programming text editors are a dime a dozen, quite literally: there are dozens of great, free open-source editors running from vim and emacs to full-fledged IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans, and it's pretty understandable that developers would spend time building tools for their own craft. But I recently discovered that there's...
I've been blogging for a while now, but this particular one with its emphasis on technical matters is only six months young. The initial idea was to force myself to think about programming and software while I make myself write, but lately it's been hard to take the time to keep...
Call it an experiment gone wrong, or an overzealous symphony of clashing font properties; I've had more than one person complain that this blog's text isn't that readable, and that while the styles are certainly exotic [1], they defeat the point if techni-literary euphoria comes with retinal hemorrhage. So...
