• On The Bravery Of Trans People

    Recently I’ve been thinking  a lot about Leelah Alcorn’s death. But this post isn’t really about Leelah. It’s more about the people who slog through…

  • Reclaiming “It Just Works”

    Everyone agrees that Apple’s software quality has taken a dive in the last couple of years. Interestingly, I hear a lot of fingers being pointed…

  • Using Data To Reduce Inequality

    The racism we deal with today in America has evolved to be a lot more elusive than it was during the Civil Rights Movement. You…

  • TIL

    After being inspired by a bunch of Ruby Rogues episodes and in part by my colleague Brett’s year of Ruby tips I decided to try…

  • The Detroit Project

    As many if you may know, I’m somewhat of an ideas guy. I’d like to share with you an idea of mine that’s been floating…

  • Apple Extended keyboards – My setup

    I’ve owned classic Apple mechanical keyboards for some time, but over the past few weeks I’ve been using the Apple Extended Keyboard and Apple Extended…

  • The Markdown Shitshow, Part Deux

    So, after watching the Markdown standardization shitshow play out, some more substance is starting to come out of the woodwork. First off, I was right…

  • Standard Markdown

    update: the name’s been changed to Common Markdown Yesterday, Jeff Atwood announced that Standard Markdown, a project he had been working on for some time,…

  • Amazon’s e-book hubris

    Amazon’s starting to play some hardball negotiation with Hachette, and it’s got Amazon’s critics worried. They envision this drab world where the only way to…

  • You won’t believe this blogger’s New Year’s Resolution

    I’m done clicking links to Upworthy and similar linkbait-y sites that show up in my Facebook feed, and I think you should too. Usually the…