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October 24, 2014

How JavaScript is Going to Replace Node.js

At the time of writing this, Node.js is now only 70.4% JavaScript.

October 23, 2014

Microphone Pop Filter - Made Entirely Of Paper

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October 22, 2014

The more you save, the more you get in the habit of saving

There’s more to your finances than just the math. Your habits, your tendencies, and your personal psychology all play a role.

October 16, 2014

Rebuilding Wardrobe - Sabbatical

As I’m sure you are aware I’ve taken a little sabbatical from the rebuilding Wardrobe series.

October 13, 2014

Simple or Minimal Apps

A simple app isn’t simple by virtue of having fewer options, a simple app is simple because of usability.

October 2, 2014

How Broken Glasses Led to Great Customer Service

Have you ever had those crazy weeks where everything goes wrong? That describes this week for me.

September 29, 2014

Creating Notebook Style Post Images

I’ve had a few people ask me how I designed the blog post images in my rebuilding Wardrobe series and in this post I wanted to outline the simple process I...

September 24, 2014

Rebuilding Wardrobe: Week 4

In this weeks Rebuilding Wardrobe series I started working on the list of posts. That sounds easy right?

September 24, 2014

Ghost - Backbone, Angular, or Ember

This is an old but epic post discussing the pros and cons of each of these frameworks.

September 19, 2014

Setting up Gulp, Bower, Bootstrap Sass, & FontAwesome

Let’s face it. Managing front end dependencies is still a headache. As developers, we have a plethora of options for building dependencies.

September 17, 2014

Rebuilding Wardrobe: Week 3

Welcome to week three in the rebuilding Wardrobe series. This week my goals are to get migrations, repositories, and hopefully an admin editor all setup.

September 17, 2014

JavaScript for OS X Automation

Not only does Apple provide an API for interacting with the operating system and install apps, but they also provide an Objective-C bridge to work directly...

September 17, 2014

First impressions of iOS 8

This update cannot be installed because it requires at least 6.9 GB of storage. You can make more storage available by deleting items in Usage Settings.

September 16, 2014

Google Indexes JavaScript

This might be old news to you, but new to me:

September 13, 2014

Typekit Typography Lessons

Typekit Typography Lessons:

September 12, 2014

Writing as a business

A writer with no head for business isn’t going to make a living with the words they write, no matter how glorious, how well-crafted, how extraordinary they...

September 10, 2014

Rebuilding Wardrobe: Week 2

This is the second week in a series on rebuilding WardrobeCMS, the minimal blogging engine.

September 3, 2014

Rebuilding Wardrobe: Week 1

Welcome to the first week of my rebuilding Wardrobe series.

August 28, 2014

The Wardrobe Diaries

I have been working on building a new version of Wardrobe, my little blogging app, and development has stalled as I’ve been swamped with other things.

August 25, 2014

Pluck The Weeds In Your Code

Back in the spring, as I was walking back from the mailbox I noticed a tiny little green weed inside a purple bush.