Despite being a designer at Surge, I am happy that the dependability of the Windows CLI has fallen within my responsibilities; designers advocate for the people using what they make, and many of the people using Surge are running Windows.

This weekend I’ll be at XOXO, the independent arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon. I work with a very small and very dedicated team on Surge, static web publishing for front-end developers. We haven’t taken any outside funding. Last year, XOXO was a great environment to find other designers…