| Post | Date | Description | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Better Todo List | 11/28/2023 | It's the "hello, world" of UI Frameworks. Can we make it even better? | personal process |
| Lead With The Outcome | 11/28/2023 | Task-focused leadership isn't just a missed opportunity. It's *exhausting*. | management leadership startups |
| Building Cultures of Accountability | 11/2/2023 | Accountability is the bedrock of an autonomous, empowered culture. Here's how to build it into your culture over time. | management leadership startups |
| Introducing the Developer's Guide to Growth | 10/25/2023 | As a developer starting out your own startup or side-project, growth can seem more like a black box than a science. | guides growth startups |
| Feedback, Insight, and Information | 10/23/2023 | Ask better questions the right way to unlock better insights from your team | management leadership startups |
| Squeezing the Feedback Loop | 10/23/2023 | Tighter feedback loops make for happier employees and faster value delivery. | management leadership development |
| The AI Bubble is For Real | 10/20/2023 | We've seen bubbles before. How are the vast sums of money and talent pouring into AI any different? | ai essay future-of-work |
| R&D is a Cost Center | 10/9/2023 | ...and if you like your job, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. | essay management leadership |
| Leading Your Team Through a Layoff | 10/8/2023 | Here's to approaching the proceedings with all the pragmatism and grace you can muster | leadership management layoffs |
| Does Software Even Need Managers? | 9/27/2023 | The role of the tech-industry manager is changing, and leading companies are going without. Do managers still have a place in the organizational landscape? | management development leadership essay |
| An Ending, a Beginning | 9/18/2023 | After seven years and two successful exits, I'm closing the books on one chapter and gearing up for what's next. | personal |
| The Job Description Equation | 9/9/2023 | If you've ever felt job descriptions might be a little formulaic, well, they are. | hiring management startups |
| Measuring Anything | 8/29/2023 | Our desire for certain answers masks an important truth: that measurement doesn't need to be precise to be valuable. | skills management |
| The Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog | 8/28/2023 | A long-lived technical blog reckons with change | personal meta |
| Inferring TypeScript types from Mustache-templates | 7/31/2023 | A small library to infer TypeScript types from Mustache | typescript devex mustache |
| Choosing the Right Database for Your Startup | 2/5/2022 | A database is one of the most critical decisions a technology startup will make. Here's how to get it less wrong. | development startups |
| The Psychology of Computer Programming | 1/9/2022 | Fifty years later, Gerald Weinberg's book remains a goldmine of insight into programmers, management, and of course the computers themselves. | books reviews |
| Writing Team Charters | 1/8/2022 | Projects start as proposals. Companies start as business plans. For teams, charters. Let’s make it a good one. | management teams |
| The Year of the Tiger | 1/1/2022 | I don't know about you, but me? I'm ready for the New Year. | illustrations |
| Managing Application State with Algebraic Effects | 12/26/2021 | Even without explicit language support, algebraic effects are a useful conceptual tool for managing application state | programming typescript |
| EventTarget with TypeScript | 6/18/2021 | Use TypeScript with the EventTarget DOM API to add type safety to event-driven user interfaces. | typescript howto |
| A Toy Algorithm | 4/6/2020 | Toys beguile and entertain through their resemblance to some real thing. Yet playing with them is instructive for the truths they reveal about larger, not-toy concepts. | development algorithms |
| Killing it: an Education | 12/15/2019 | You might read a book about meat because you're curious about how to prepare it, where it comes from, or whether you should be eating it at all | books reviews |
| Let's Talk About the Future | 11/24/2019 | And other polite ways to ruin Thanksgiving dinner | personal essay |
| Principles of High-Value Software Testing | 11/5/2019 | Tests secure the value that software creates. Here are practical principles for getting the most from them. | development testing |
| Event Emitters in TypeScript | 10/20/2019 | TypeScript enables safer, more maintainable event emitters. Here's how to add type safety to the pattern you know and love. | typescript howto |
| The Model and its Limits | 10/19/2019 | No matter how convenient or apparently complete, every model has its limits. | process essay |
| More Value, Less Impact: Traveling on a Carbon Budget | 10/5/2019 | Nothing screams ‘millennial guilt’ quite like a nice flight across the ocean. If you’re still going to travel, how do you make it count? | personal process |
| Baking loves static types | 5/29/2019 | Working in languages like JavaScript, Python, or Ruby, you get a little tired of your colleagues... | development process |
| Is TypeScript worth it? Making the case to your team | 5/18/2019 | Here's a letter to share with your manager, your team, or the developer across the way at the pub. | development typescript |
| Cheatsheet: Analyzing Data from the UNIX Command Line | 5/11/2019 | Here's a scarcely-comprehensive list of tools for parsing, transforming, and formatting data from the command line. | development bash jq |
| On Demand, but When? | 5/4/2019 | The long, steady march towards managed infrastructure is fantastic. Less time configuring... | development |
| Damage Control in Distributed Systems | 4/24/2019 | Grid operators, systems thinkers, and grey-beard sysadmins will tell you: systems are hard. | development typescript howto |
| The Web Developer's Guide to DNS | 4/8/2019 | Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web. | development dns protocols |
| Some Type of City | 3/18/2019 | The child couldn’t sleep. Stories usually helped, though, and so the woman began. “In a faraway... | stories |
| 7 Commandments for Event-Driven Architecture | 3/9/2019 | The critical rules to keep in mind when designing an event-driven architecture | development microservices serverless |
| Don’t Do Crazy: A Programming Lesson from the Shipping Industry | 2/24/2019 | What’s the best way to move cargo the “last mile” from a lumbering, seagoing behemoth to your door? | development philosophy |
| A Quieter Place | 2/13/2019 | Just you, you and your thoughts, old friends with everything long since said. | philosophy |
| On a Rainy Night in Portland | 2/11/2019 | Two models, two forecasts, and one rainy night in Portland | machine-learning pdx weather |
| React is Changing How We Think, Again | 2/10/2019 | React reinvented how interfaces are built. Where does the future lead? | essays development react |
| Dear Founder | 1/27/2019 | Maynard Webb’s Dear Founder is a different kind of startup story, told through the letters an... | books reviews |
| Using React Hooks with TypeScript | 1/27/2019 | Use TypeScript and React Hooks like useReducer and useState to create typesafe, maintainable state containers. Here’s how to do it. | typescript react howto |
| Software's Code Problem | 1/13/2019 | The industry's mystique is misguided. | development philosophy essays |
| A day in the life of a Software Developer | 1/5/2019 | Chatting about the wide and woolly world of software development with a high school honor society ... | development philosophy |
| Happy Holidays! | 12/29/2018 | It’s that time of year again—time to consign 2018 to the history books and discover what... | illustrations |
| Notevember | 10/31/2018 | The sort of thing that makes it worth opening the mailbox, just to see what's inside. | personal |
| Simple Tools | 10/28/2018 | Does the benefit in a specialized tool outweigh the time to learn it? | development |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | 10/27/2018 | Donella Meadows' book is a gentle introduction to recognizing and effecting change in complex systems. | books |
| Event Handlers and Logic Don't Mix | 10/20/2018 | Handling events safely and applying business logic are separate concerns. | javascript |
| TypeScript Event Handlers | 10/17/2018 | Event handling in TypeScript is a story of expectations, tradeoffs, and the challenge of trying to type a dynamic language like JavaScript. | typescript react |
| Turn The Ship Around | 9/22/2018 | Responsibility, initiative, authority: David Marquet's book is about giving it back. | books |
| The Honest Question That Gets More Done | 9/13/2018 | Ever put something off? One simple self-reflection will get it back on track. | personal |
| Why it's Worth Learning Go | 9/5/2018 | Go is a simple, robust programming language that deserves a look from novices and veterans alike. Here's why. | essay development golang |
| Creating a CLI with TypeScript | 8/12/2018 | The same statically-typed goodness for web applications is just as helpful for building command-line interfaces. | typescript howto react |
| React Render Props with TypeScript | 8/11/2018 | Using render props with TypeScript makes it easy to safely sharing logic across React components. | typescript howto react |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | 8/10/2018 | I'm a relative latecomer to the pop-science subgenre of behavioral economics | books |
| Specialization | 8/7/2018 | Do one thing and do it well. But in web development? | development |
| Using React Context with TypeScript | 5/24/2018 | Use TypeScript and React Contexts to safely share state across React components—or an entire Application. | typescript howto react |
| Before You Go Paperless | 5/16/2018 | The oldest productivity tool is still one of the best | personal essays |
| 3 Good Reasons to Start a Blog | 4/29/2018 | I’m still clinging to the old-fashioned notion that there’s value in writing things down. | essays personal |
| Five Better Ways to Comment Code | 4/13/2018 | Comments just sit there—why not put them to work instead? | development process |
| Should You Finally Learn How to Program? | 4/4/2018 | You could take up baking to nourish your body, or physics to nourish your mind. Either is worth learning if it interests you. But programming? | development |
| Testing with TypeScript, Enzyme, and React | 3/23/2018 | Testing with TypeScript and Enzyme offers a friendly, typesafe alternative to React's built-in test facilities. | typescript react testing howto |
| The Skeptical Developer | 3/14/2018 | What do epidemiologists and programmers have in common? | development essays |
| High Output Management | 3/11/2018 | An essential framework for getting the most from management | books reviews |
| Generic Redux Actions with TypeScript | 3/1/2018 | Have the cake and eat it, too: dispatch asynchronous redux actions with all the benefits of TypeScript's type system and only minimal boilerplate | typescript react redux howto |
| This is the Month to Learn HTTP | 2/28/2018 | If you develop software for the web, a deep dive into HTTP is well worth your time. | learn-one-thing |
| Recognizing Your Enablers | 2/22/2018 | Recognition is critical to your team's engagement, but important contributions go unseen. Here's how to start recognizing them. | management process |
| Mocking HTTPS Services in Node.js for Fun and Profit | 2/11/2018 | Mocks can simplify testing of 3rd-party services, but not when someone else owns the TLS keys. Here's how to work around it. | development process |
| This is the Month to Learn File Streams | 1/29/2018 | Streams provide a radically simple interface for many of Unix's best-loved utilities. Learning to use may even inspire simpler interfaces of your own! | learn-one-thing development linux bash |
| Keeping Git Hooks in Sync | 1/26/2018 | Sharing git hooks with your team makes it easy to automate expectation and workflows. Here are three ways to do it. | howto process git bash |
| Taking Pretty Screenshots on Linux | 1/21/2018 | One short command to step up the screenshot game. | linux tools bash |
| Node.js Module Patterns | 1/19/2018 | Never mind dependency injection, factories, singletons, or service providers: in node.js, it all comes down to the module pattern. | development node javascript |
| So You Think You're Programming? | 1/14/2018 | We software developers tend to imagine our job is programming. Coffee in. Code out. Dev in the middle. | development process |
| This is the Month to Learn jq | 1/4/2018 | JSON is the language of web APIs, and jq is the easiest way to explore and transform it. | learn-one-thing jq |
| The Hierarchy of Better Management | 12/10/2017 | First, do the easy stuff. | management illustrations |
| The Information | 12/4/2017 | A thought-provoking ride through mathematics, language, and time that chronicles information's centrality to both society and the natural world | books reviews |
| Thinking in Types | 12/3/2017 | Even in weakly-typed languages, consistent typing can yield better code. Here's how to start thinking in types.. | development typescript |
| This is the Month to Learn Application Logging | 12/1/2017 | Logs shine light on the dark corners of an application, revealing smoke before production can burst into flames. | learn-one-thing development process ops |
| Coyote’s User Story | 11/19/2017 | The one thing ACME’s customer needs isn’t a crazy contraption. It’s dinner. | product process |
| Any Color You Like | 11/16/2017 | Declarative interfaces can stop complexity in its tracks—but only if their prescription fits the problem at hand. | development process |
| code2png | 11/6/2017 | Create beautiful snapshots of code from the comfort of the command line | development projects node |
| Banishing Impostor Syndrome: How Managers Can Help | 11/1/2017 | We've all been there, struggling to keep a good face on a project that feels anything but. | management teams |
| This is the Month to Learn Git | 10/29/2017 | System of record, automation tool, and the ultimate undo button for bad ideas. There's no better time to _really_ learn git. | learn-one-thing development process git |
| You're Still Using jQuery? | 10/28/2017 | “You’re still using jQuery?” Incredulity: the byword of a bygone era. An anachronism from the bad... | essays development jquery |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | 10/7/2017 | Life is a panoply of unexpected challenges, no-win scenarios, and choices between bad and worse. This story is about that. | books reviews |
| AMP, Quick and Dirty | 9/25/2017 | Accelerated Mobile Pages trade JavaScript for lightning-fast load times. For content-focused sites, they're well worth a look | amp mobile optimization |
| Composing Higher-Order React Components in TypeScript | 9/24/2017 | Higher-order components are powerful tools for encapsulating behavior. Here's how to glue them together. | typescript react |
| Books Worth Reading | 9/4/2017 | If a story's worth finishing, it's worth taking a moment to mull over--and share--its big ideas. | essays books reviews |
| Reducing Typescript and Redux Boilerplate with Partial Actions | 9/4/2017 | Static typing is meaningless if boilerplate precludes its use. Partial actions can minimize repetition while still retaining safety and ease-of-use. | typescript redux howto |
| The Essential Drucker | 9/3/2017 | An eminently quotable collection of advice and philosophy for the knowledge economy. | books reviews |
| React Higher Order Components with TypeScript | 8/19/2017 | React HOCs are good for encapsulation; even better with their contents secured by TypeScript. | typescript howto react |
| This Theme is Free | 7/7/2017 | Ask, ask, and ask again; you'll receive. This site's theme is now available free for use. | freebies |
| Radical Candor | 6/25/2017 | Kim Scott's book puts relationships--caring, communication, and respect--at the heart of managing effective teams. | books reviews |
| The Improbability Principle | 6/10/2017 | The Improbability Principle leans on principle, anecdote, and mathematics to underscore what... | books |
| There's Always a Customer | 6/3/2017 | Everyone wins when we stop treating tools as 'internal-only'. | development process essays |
| Integrating TypeScript and redux-thunk | 1/21/2017 | Thunk middleware and async action-creators help clarify the logic of Redux applications. Here's how to bring them into TypeScript. | typescript howto redux |
| Testing TypeScript with Jest | 12/11/2016 | Jest and TypeScript make it easy to write maintainable, strongly-typed unit tests. | typescript jest testing howto |
| TypeScript and Async Redux Actions | 9/26/2016 | TypeScript brings strong assurances to async actions in Redux applications. | typescript redux howto |
| Woodpecker | 9/20/2016 | A vector woodpecker, that's all. | illustrations |
| Rocking the Whiteboard | 9/7/2016 | Live programming exercises don't have to be useless. Here's how to turn a miserable test into a meaningful conversation. | scene |
| Bug Collection | 8/25/2016 | Bugs are as much a part of software as developers and hardware. Collecting them can help ensure they don't happen again. | index |
| Tutorial: TypeScript, React, and Redux | 8/17/2016 | It's easy to connect a TypeScript / Redux application to a typesafe React.js UI. Here's how they fit together. | typescript redux react howto |
| Tutorial: Getting Started with Redux and TypeScript | 8/16/2016 | In this short guide, we'll use TypeScript to make a Redux project that's safe, consistent, and accessible. | howto typescript redux |
| About Those Bootcamp Graduates... | 8/15/2016 | It's a rare conversation with bootcamp instructors or (prospective) students that doesn't touch on the stigma around hiring bootcamp graduates. | scene essays |
| How Things Get Done | 7/14/2016 | Trips, projects, gatherings, clubs--the possibilities are endless. Time is not. | index |
| Introduction to Git Hooks | 7/5/2016 | git hooks are a powerful tool for workflow automation | howto git bash |
| How to Ruin Code Review | 6/17/2016 | Ten guaranteed strategies for raining misery down on code review | howto process development |
| That's Technical Debt | 6/12/2016 | Technical debt. Can't outrun it, can't run without it. Here's how to keep it under control. | development process essays product |
| The Best Code You'll Never Write | 6/6/2016 | No development is often the best development of all | development philosophy |
| Command-line Configuration with confab and yargs | 3/2/2016 | confab is a great tool for configuring node.js applications, but it doesn’t ship with support for... | index |
| Evolution Over Revolution | 2/6/2016 | What every product team can learn from Porsche | development process essays |
| Confab: Simple Node.js Configurations | 9/5/2015 | Node.js configuration logic can be simple, transparent, and reusable, and the confab package can help. | index |
| Circular Queue | 8/5/2015 | When data loss is a fully-underwritten feature of the system, consider the circular queue. | index |
| Bring your production environment home with Vagrant and Ansible | 7/28/2015 | Use Vagrant and Ansible to create reproducible dev environments based on multi-machine production deploys. | index |
| Using Ansible with Vagrant | 7/5/2015 | Scaling development environments beyond 'it works on my machine' | index |
| Testing API Requests From window.fetch | 6/5/2015 | Using Sinon to stub `window.fetch` with mock API requests simplifies client testing and development. Here's how to do it. | howto javascript sinon testing |
| Testing API Requests with XHR and sinon.js | 5/31/2015 | Testing API behaviors with XHR and sinon enables portable, straightforward specifications. Here's how to do it. | howto javascript sinon testing |
| The Documentation You've Been Looking For | 5/12/2015 | If we don't want prose, and we can't tell our complete story with code alone, it's time to consider our supplemental documentation. | development process essays |
| Analyzing JSON from the command line | 3/8/2015 | Sometimes we don't want to fire up a spreadsheet just to take a peek at our data. Thanks to the command line, we don't have to. | howto jq |
| Testing Around CSRF Protection | 2/21/2015 | Requests that had slid through easily before became unauthorized, and a cheerful green test suite glowed an angry red. | index |
| Putting React Custom PropTypes to Work | 1/21/2015 | React Custom PropTypes help clarify component interfaces. Here's how to put them to work. | howto react javascript |
| Exception handling in node.js | 1/16/2015 | The ins and outs of asynchronous exception handling | development javascript |
| JavaScript is swallowing your errors | 1/15/2015 | Who ships a language with error-handling optional? | development javascript |
| Quick start: profiling node.js on linux | 12/29/2014 | Generate and review node.js CPU profiles on linux using Chrome | node javascript |
| Disabling JavaScript Object Extensions | 3/31/2014 | As restrictive data types go, JavaScript objects are settlers on the far edge of the wild west. If... | index |
| Naming JavaScript Functions | 3/9/2014 | Remember that anonymous function? Probably not. After all, if it wasn’t worth a name, it probably... | index |
| Declarative Specs for JavaScript | 2/26/2014 | The last thing a lazy software developer wants to do is write code. The shorter and simpler a... | index |
| Trimming the Callback Tree | 11/17/2013 | Node.js approaches asynchrony by passing around continuations–callbacks used to resume program flow... | index |
| Validating javascript objects | 7/5/2013 | Validation is an important piece of an effective user interface. It reduces error rates, supports... | index |
| Managing JSON with jq | 6/25/2013 | Update: I’ve released a workshopper-style interactive tutorial covering the basics of jq. Just... | howto jq |
| Patch requests in Backbone | 6/2/2013 | Backbone recently added support for patch requests—great news for developers working with small... | index |
| Composition in Javascript | 3/16/2013 | Last week offered some fairly esoteric notes on dependency injection. This week, it’s time to put... | index |
| Javascript dependency injection: what you should know | 2/26/2013 | Dependency injection might be the best technique you didn’t know you were already using. For... | index |
| Tiny model relations with Backbone.associate | 2/16/2013 | Ergonomic relationship modeling without the JS bloat | index |
| Parameterized testing in Javascript | 1/21/2013 | Why describe in code what you can capture in a variable? If I had my way I would have stopped... | index |
| Why listenTo in Backbone 0.9.9 | 1/12/2013 | One of Backbone’s great advantages is that it changes very little. Up until the release of 0.9.9... | index |
| A year for the designer | 12/31/2012 | To the reflective posts and predictions that invariably define a new year in the blogosphere, add... | index |
| CoffeeScript Sucks | 12/29/2012 | Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the drip. Javascript and I didn’t get off to a good... | index |
| Filtering Backbone Collections | 12/9/2012 | Some data-heavier Backbone projects have gotten me to thinking a bit about how Backbone collections... | index |
| Initializing Backbone Applications | 12/9/2012 | For one moment, forget the Models, the Controllers, the Routers and think about how they come to... | index |
| Scaling images for Retina displays | 11/25/2012 | There are several off-the-shelf solutions for providing super-sized images to devices using Apple’s... | index |
| Dollar Democracy | 11/23/2012 | It’s Black Friday here in the States, and now that last night’s gala of gluttony has worn off we... | index |
| On bad eggs | 11/13/2012 | There comes a time in every application’s life when the optimism of early development is eclipsed... | index |
| Integrating maps and Formtastic forms with Geous.js | 10/23/2012 | The fabulous Formtastic gem provides a tidy DSL for presenting Rails models in user input forms... | index |
| Geous.js grows up | 10/16/2012 | Geous.js is a tiny javascript library that makes geocoding and geolocation tasks a snap… …and for... | index |
| Developing Rails Gems with Git | 9/30/2012 | Take a gem that provides shared functionality to a number of under-development projects. Gem... | index |
| Catch-all routes in Backbone | 9/18/2012 | Sooner or later, every Backbone application will encounter a route gone wrong. Handling mistyped... | index |
| Where's the Water? | 9/17/2012 | Here's where the water's coming from in Bozeman, Montana. | illustrations |
| Home Baker’s Illustrated Guides | 9/10/2012 | A few work-in-progress frames from the cookbook. Infographic: an illustrated guide to starter... | illustrations |
| Coffeescript jQuery plugin template | 9/6/2012 | Repetition is the last thing on coffeescript’s mind. Alan Hogan posted a great base template for... | index |
| GetSimple Plugin Boilerplate | 9/2/2012 | I just pushed a small repository to github that provides an object-oriented approach to authoring... | index |
| Filtering Backbone Routes | 8/16/2012 | A Backbone application needs to perform a login redirect whenever an unauthenticated user tries to... | index |
| Select box hinting | 8/12/2012 | Selectboxes aren’t my favorite part of the user-interface toolkit. Even before being subjected to a... | index |
| The Small Business Website is Dead | 8/6/2012 | Lately, I’ve been unselling as many websites as I’ve shipped. It’s not a compatibility issue—on the... | index |
| Forge: Template generators for Node.js | 7/28/2012 | One of the Rails-isms I miss most when developing in Node.js is easy access to repetition-quashing... | index |
| A Message in the Pins | 7/9/2012 | To me, at least, the spector of litigation looming over Pinterest’s Palo Alto headquarters seems as... | index |
| Testing with Node, Jasmine, and Require.JS, part II | 7/2/2012 | With some serious interface revisions headed down the pipeline, last week’s dive into the realm of... | index |
| Stepping Back | 6/26/2012 | Every new project begins with both a seemingly limitless pool of creative energy and a siren’s song... | index |
| Jasmine, Coffeescript, and Require.js, Part I. | 6/20/2012 | Having spent the better part of an afternoon wrangling a jasmine test suite written in coffeescript... | index |
| Javascript Bootstrapping for Rails | 6/16/2012 | Javascript without bootstrapping is like a drive-in without roller skates. Even though dinner... | index |
| Some custom mixins for underscore | 6/7/2012 | I recently published several of the more useful underscore mixins in my development toolkit over to... | index |
| Simple Model Relationships with Backbone.js | 6/4/2012 |
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| Watch, coffee, node, and make | 5/30/2012 | Watchers such as nodemon are great tools for easing the pain of testing, but they tend to be... | index |
| Free Map UI Mockup Elements | 5/27/2012 | Get ‘em while they’re hot: two styles of SVG map elements, released for free under the auspices of... | index |
| Adding Map Tooltips to Bootstrap | 5/14/2012 | Twitter’s Bootstrap is one of the best tools to crash the concept-development party in quite some... | index |
| Storing data in the DOM | 5/9/2012 | One common strategy in progressive enhancement is to use the static content on a page as an initial... | index |
| PHP Library for the Posterous API | 5/5/2012 | Posterous is no more This note retained for historical purposes only I recently coughed up a PHP... | index |
| Testing protected methods with PHP | 4/29/2012 | Testing private and protected methods in PHP isn’t a trivial task. Consider a very simple class: A... | index |
| E-mail, beautiful e-mail. | 4/17/2012 | As much as I try to avoid letting the presentation of the e-mail that arrives in my inbox affect my... | index |
| A Monkey Puzzle Pattern | 4/16/2012 | One of the persistent challenges in user interface design involves separating legitimate input from... | index |
| A Privacy Bill of Rights | 3/14/2012 | Even if last month’s revelation of data leaks in two popular iPhone applications didn’t come as... | index |
| Organizing Backbone.js Applications | 3/6/2012 | When it comes to organizing applications, Backbone.js doesn’t come with an exhaustive list of “thou... | index |
| Backbone.js object inheritance | 2/28/2012 | If you’ve ever wondered if the basic classes in Backbone.js could be inherited by other, related... | index |
| Idling functions | 2/6/2012 | One of the (very few) functions missing from the singularly useful Underscore.js toolkit is _.idle... | index |
| Don't fear the G | 1/31/2012 | With all the hubbub surrounding Google’s new privacy policy, you’d almost think the end times were... | index |
| A Wordpress Plugin Boilerplate | 1/30/2012 | WordPress’s decision to provide only minimal guidelines for third party developers has had two... | index |
| Parsing forms with Backbone.js | 1/30/2012 | Take a form that’s indexed in the Rails vogue. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to manipulate its... | index |
| Optimizing textured graphics | 12/19/2011 | From rgba colors to the box-shadow attribute, the CSS standard tends to evolve in response to... | index |
| Regex routing with Backbone.js | 12/9/2011 | Routing is an application’s way of saying, “there would be something good at that URL, but since... | index |
| Meet Achilles | 12/8/2011 | Achilles is a tool that sets out to solve a daily problem in web development: how can a site offer... | index |
| Illustrated Guide to Sourdough | 12/7/2011 | Here’s take #1 at The Illustrated Guide to Sourdough. (Infographic) Illustrated Guide to Sourdough... | index |
| Fit text to element with inflateText.js | 11/17/2011 | InflateText.js began as these things often do: with a problem. One of my projects required... | index |
| Developing with REST | 11/8/2011 | The application’s released, the userbase is growing, and the company inbox is filling up with... | index |
| Gmail Limits & the Population Bomb | 11/2/2011 | Sometime yesterday, the UN officially declared the birth of the world’s 7 billionth baby. Once all... | index |
| Verifying Geolocation | 10/24/2011 | The internet is all about data, but figuring out where that data resides in the... | index |
| Out of the Wild | 10/17/2011 | The Geous.js geolocation library exposes simple interfaces for locating users and performing... | index |
| Javascript Validation | 9/30/2011 | Take a form that collects user comments for use in a Javascript application. Once submitted, the... | index |
| Javascript Template Management | 9/21/2011 | To the time strapped application developer, templating systems are a godsend. By moving content... | index |
| The Good License | 9/20/2011 | Whenever I release an open-source project, its code invariably ends up under the auspices of the... | index |
| Pirana: feeds for the reader | 9/18/2011 | When the announcement of the “Responsive Edition” of An Event Apart’s 10k Apart showcase coincided... | index |
| Geous.js: Geolocation made easy | 9/8/2011 | In terms of potential and controversy, HTML5’s location-awareness is about as hot as its gets. On... | index |
| Baffin: a SASS-y little style | 8/31/2011 | Just because a project is custom doesn’t mean that it can’t recycle code, and nothing screams... | index |
| A Time for Learning | 8/31/2011 | Personal projects aren’t just a chance to build something awesome—they’re a chance to learn. | index |
| CSS3 transition class | 8/23/2011 | As CSS3 continues its tentative march towards widespread implementation, I’ve noticed a slightly... | index |
| Objects, Arrays, and Local Storage | 8/19/2011 | HTML5′s local storage system is an incredibly useful feature, but I’m not the biggest fan of having... | index |
| Responsive images without Javascript | 8/17/2011 | Responsive development owes its roots to the mobile-age challenge of scaling content onto handheld... | index |
| Bookmarklet: load local test script | 8/11/2011 | Working on a data-loading application for a client, I got involved in some debugging work more... | index |
| Detect when a stylesheet finishes loading | 8/9/2011 | Sometimes it’s nice to be able to trigger an action when a resource is loaded, usually by simply... | index |
| What, no phone? | 8/3/2011 | Last March, I traded in the undeniable convenience of the cell grid for a Google Voice number and a... | index |
| Welcome Adobe Edge | 7/31/2011 | Adobe just announced a new tool (“Edge”) for helping developers produce interactive content based... | index |
| Designing javascript for accessibility | 7/26/2011 | Since the dawn of asynchronous content retrieval, javascript has played an increasingly important... | index |
| Google+ at three (weeks) | 7/20/2011 | By now, you can’t have missed hearing about Google+, the latest not-quite-Facebook horse in... | index |
| Trench Warfare | 7/16/2011 | Running bamboos are legendary expansionists. To stop their rhizomes from overwhelming the yard... | index |
| Javascript micro-loader | 7/13/2011 | Several recent projects have left me wishing for a way to keep track of asnychronous scripts and... | index |
| New Fonts at Google Font API | 5/7/2011 | Looks like a raft of new fonts are available over at the Google Font Directory. Get ’em while... | index |
| Find an input label in jQuery | 5/4/2011 | Find the label wrapping a user-input control... | index |
| Stomping CSRF attacks | 4/19/2011 | Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks have gained increasing notoriety as websites have grown... | index |
| Printing the week | 4/12/2011 | No summary available | index |
| vim: first impressions | 4/7/2011 | I’m a huge fan of my keyboard, the terminal, and generally keeping my hands off the mouse as much... | index |
| Show number of results on Wordpress search page | 4/5/2011 | If you haven’t already read it, Michael Martin’s article on improving the wordpress search page is... | index |
| Rank SQL full text query by relevance in boolean mode | 3/31/2011 | Assuming that $keywords holds the query keywords, a table containing the indexed columns title and... | index |
| Masking images with CSS and jQuery | 3/14/2011 | Ever wanted to add a pretty frame or porthole effect to images uploaded through a content... | index |
| Including page content in Wordpress blog index page | 3/2/2011 | Even when a WordPress post index page is pinned to a static page, it’s sometimes nice to allow a... | index |
| Euclid's algorithm | 2/22/2011 | Just for fun: var _gcd = function(a, b) { return ( b == 0 ) ? a : _gcd( b, a%b ); }... | index |
| Hooking Wordpress media uploading in plugins | 2/14/2011 | WordPress features a user-friendly media management system that takes all the mystery of FTP out of... | index |
| Let Google serve your Wordpress theme. | 1/24/2011 | Each WordPress version comes complete with the most latest versions of a number of JavaScript... | index |
| Including a random custom post in your Wordpress Theme | 1/5/2011 | The addition of custom post types in WP3+ allows theme designers to include random post types... | index |
| jQuery + CodeIgniter | 12/28/2010 | While working on streamlining the back end of our soon-to-be-launched Laborinth application, I went... | index |
| Sort Wordpress custom posts alphabetically | 11/11/2010 | I recently used WordPress’s new custom post type functionality (WP3+) to get biographies and... | index |
| Typography Grows Up | 10/12/2010 | With @font-face now supported by all the major browsers, everyone wants to get in on a piece of the... | index |
| Get children from navigation in WP3+ | 10/7/2010 | Even though I love WordPress’s new menu management system (WP3+), there are times it would be nice... | index |