A divided nation. Our first orange president. Prince, David Bowie and too many celebrity deaths to mention. Then again, it wasn’t all bad. I’m grateful for each day I got to wake up and discover amazing new music. For your consideration…(in no particular ranking, but sort of ranked. Kind of.) …

The debate of whether UX/UI designers should learn to code has been going on for over a decade. If you Google it, you’ll get countless arguments on either side. So why did I decide to write about it? What opinion could I offer that hasn’t been waxed poetically on already? …

We keep telling people to follow their passion, and I feel like that can be an intimidating and almost cruel thing to say to people at times. Because first of all, if somebody has one central powerful, burning passion they’re probably already following it, because that’s sort of the definition…

Why this year I’m adding a little logic (literally) to help me focus on what matters. — If this, then that is a fundamental principle of programming. It’s event-driven, conditional logic that states if a specific event happens, then react with a particular response. IFTTT, along with similar services, has brought this concept to non-programmers, allowing one to create “Recipes” by stitching together commonly used services. …

Like most serial entrepreneurs I have new business ideas on a daily basis. For most of my career I’d jot them down in weird places only to forget what document or notebook I put them in. …