How I Evolved my RSS Reading
Ars had an article today on how RSS is no longer a sane way to consume news; I also saw Marco (of Instapaper fame) posted how he has changed his RSS habit for "sane...
Thoughts
Don't Design and Code
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en masse and that HTML + CSS has a low barrier to entry means that several designers...
Blind Hindsight
How many times have you heard about stories like Excite having a chance to buy Google, back in 1999, for $1 million? Or, if only someone not named Bill Gates got the rights to distribute MS-DOS for $75,000, Microsoft would have never have gotten off the ground. What if, what if. Hindsight is 20/...
The Value of Quora
A few days ago, I ran across this post commenting on the decline of Quora, at least in mindshare and media coverage. While this conclusion is dubious based on raw traffic numbers, my own anecdotal use has steadily declined since in the beginning of the year. I was a late beta user on the site[...
HTML5 Madness
I'm conflicted. As a front-end web developer, I should be excited about the advancements in HTML5: the new HTML tags that correct all the hacks and self-replicating divs; the correctly cross-browser rendered styles which have finally caught up to modern web design; and the new Javascript API's that make the browser...
Code Pessimism
Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a your codebase and uttered one or more of the following: * Hm, should get to that TODO at some point. * I'll love deleting that chunk code when we finally sunset the feature. * We'll just move this over now, and then when...