The Majestic Monolith

Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do…

Now that I’ve created something, how do I spread it?

First principles

In January of 2006, a young comedian with a taste of doing stand-up in college, moved to New York to make it big.

I got $200 and dreams, let’s do this thing.

But following a stretch of barely getting by and sleeping on the subway, he moved back to…

Control Your Type: Google Fonts + Chrome = trouble?

tl;dr: If you let Google Fonts host your type for you, it might look terrible for some users on Chrome, especially Open Sans. Solution is below — you’ll probably need to host it yourself.

Basecamp 3 for Mac and Windows is here!

One of the best things about Basecamp is you can use it almost anywhere. All you need is a…

Make losses affordable

People do crazy things when they can’t afford to lose. Being dealt a bad hand, which invariably happens at some point, becomes an existential threat, the brain shuts off rational analysis, the primal mode of survival kicks in. It’s when morals and spines are broken.