I’m Anthony Colangelo.

I’m up and running with my Big Cartel Employee Art Grant project. The 3D printer has arrived, and the first practice prints came out well.

I contributed a small part to this brilliant (and massive) post on A List Apart. What things are we looking forward to in 2016? What’s capturing our interests in the upcoming year?

“Cool URIs don’t change.” Even cooler ones work everywhere—including apps.

Getting valuable feedback is a delicate and very important thing. A little bit of thoughtfulness and planning can go a long way.

One of the biggest advantages of having expertise is understanding and implementing best practices, but they’re often the biggest hindrance in learning something new. Getting yourself back into “beginner mode” is essential.

Xcode 6 introduced an important, yet under-promoted, feature for developers: the ability to create custom frameworks for iOS and Mac. Here’s a walkthrough of how to create a framework that can be shared between iOS apps, Mac apps, and extensions on any platform.

New device categories often start out by doing the same tasks as existing devices, but history has shown that successful categories are those that bring an entirely new context and fundamentally change the way we use technology.

Refactoring code is a lot like saving the Earth from an asteroid impact. Except way less heroic and incredible.

A lot of commonly-accepted abbreviations exist only because a critical mass of people use them. Is the loss of clarity outweighed by the benefits of a shorter name?

I’m incredibly uncomfortable with the guiding principles of net neutrality. The proposed rules are insidious and will undermine some of the most sacred pieces of the Internet.

Most of our projects operate on a smaller scale than a mission to Mars, but there’s a lot we can learn from NASA’s approach to boldly going where none have gone before. NASA is thinking modularly down to the core components of a system, and we should, too.