And here’s the megafeed of everything I’ve been doing.
I was lucky enough to be invited down to Orlando, Florida to participate in some events surrounding the 2015 Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductions. I’ll be on three panels, covering responsive design, mobile development, and Swift.
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?
We talk about the challenges of net neutrality, the definition of lawful content, the importance of encryption-enforced privacy, and the unlikely champion of reason and individual rights.
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.
We talk about inconsistent, disappointing and sometimes positively surprising tools.
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.
Today's Topic: Laundry. In Part 2, Patrick tells the secret behind his jeans, and Aura and Anthony workshop failed methods for closet organization.
As part of the small-but-mighty team at Big Cartel, my work focused on the iOS ecosystem.
Sad, excited, and terrified to say that after 3 years, I’m leaving Happy Cog. In 2015, I’ll be joining Big Cartel as an iOS developer!
I worked primarily as a front-end developer on this project, and was focused on building a flexible, modular system that could be implemented by the Papa John’s internal team to cover all of their needs across all of their markets. In addition, I spent a lot of time working directly with the team to improve their performance optimization workflow and increase the speed of experiences.
Today's Topic: Laundry. In Part 1 of a two-part episode, the hosts discuss when and how they perform this mundane activity and share where their clothes reside once clean.
The difference between knowledge and intelligence is an extremely important one. Knowledge is the collection of skills and information a person has acquired through experience. Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge.
In client work, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our work lives beyond ourselves—our work’s future is the indicator of its success.
Some of the best and most useful things we build have humble beginnings. Small side projects start with a sapling of an idea—something that can be built in a weekend, but will make our work a little easier, our lives a little better.
We talk about gender and ethnic inequality in the workplace and society.
As an industry, we’re historically terrible at drawing lines between things, except when it comes to our roles. The old thinking of defined roles is certainly loosening up, but we still have a long way to go.
We talk about giving a shit about people through attention to details and wonder why it's such a tough sell.
Today's topic: Sandwiches. Anthony discusses mixing the meats. Aura and Patrick disapprove of the cutlet.
We talk about zero-sum mentality or the perceived lack of uniqueness that makes people hold off from sharing their thoughts and ideas with the world.