A few months ago, I stumbled across A Career Retrospective by Sailor Mercury. In this article, Sailor Mercury wrote about several unique and interesting projects she’s done, including automated knitting, working on the ASIMO robot and starting a computer science publication. One of those projects really stuck out to me…

This past weekend I attended TEDxSeattle. This was my first TED event, and I walked away inspired and excited. Here are my favorite ideas from the conference. 1. How to Have a Better Conversation Celeste Headlee, host and executive producer of On Second Thought If you’re surprised by the events of November 8th, that’s a reflection of…

Lately I’ve had a few people ask me the same thing: “How can I become a good developer?” Unfortunately, that’s the wrong question. The problem is the fallacy of arrival. You’re never going to hit a point when you’re “there” with development. There’s no magic checklist of criteria, and nobody’s…

It’s a permanent fixture in your pocket. Its bluish glow is the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you see before you go to bed. It connects you with friends and family. …

You know you hate it: that ugly yellow background color in Chrome and Safari’s autocompleted fields. This color is set in the user agent stylesheet, s0 unfortunately there’s no way to override it. But there’s hope! I found a neat little trick in this Stack Overflow answer. Instead of styling the background color, use an inner box shadow that covers the background and use -webkit-text-fill-color to set the text color.

“Make a list of everything you can do with a brick.” I frantically start to scribble in my notebook. Rows of unusual ideas materialize as my hand flies across the page. A smear of black ink streaks as my finger brushes the wet ink of the previous line. I lightly…

A rant about startups and non-disclosure agreements — Photo by Viktor Hanacek The other day my phone dinged with that familiar new email tone. The email was from an entrepreneur interested in teaming up. He wanted to meet for coffee and discuss his company. After setting a time and place, he casually dropped this into the conversation: I’m…