This June, I was one of the lucky ones who’d won the lottery, and was able to attend WWDC in San Francisco. While I was at the conference, it was awesome to have the whole schedule at my fingertips via the WWDC app on my iPhone. With CocoaConf Seattle just around the corner, I found myself… Continue reading

If you see this, you’re looking at all of my old site’s content running on my self-hosted WordPress server… Phew! I think that’s enough for tonight, but there will be more soon. I’ve got a bunch of details I want to write up about this project. Plus now that I have the tools I wrote… Continue reading

Today, sites all over the Web are making a statement by “[covering] the web with symbolic ‘loading’ icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers.” Obviously if you’re reading this, you see that I’m participating. You can too. Go here:… Continue reading

Canceled Comcast cable and premium channels: -$130/mo Canceled Comcast home phone: -$55/mo Canceled TiVo subscription: -$14/mo ———————————————————————- Saved: $199/month Signed up for Ooma basic phone service: $4.66/mo Signed up for Hulu+: $7.99/mo ———————————————————————- New costs: $12.65/mo (less than TiVo alone) ============================================ Total Savings: $186.35 Farewell, Comcast Cable. We won’t miss you. Ps. It was harder… Continue reading

After my last post, promising (mainly to myself) that I’d blog more, I asked on Twitter what should be On Deck, so to speak. I’ve decided I’m going to focus first on thoughts about user experience design, and related team/project stuff, since that’s what I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about of late.… Continue reading

The other night I was talking with Brent Simmons, and he told me that he’d tried to send my last post to Instapaper, and it didn’t work. The error message sucked, but clearly this requires action in any case. Now the decision is whether to try to fix my template (or Manila itself), or to… Continue reading

There’s no time like the present, right? Or the near future… Or someday, when I get to it… For quite a while I’ve been telling myself, “Self: You should really blog more.” And then I don’t. Since I left the indie developer world at UserLand in 2006, for an all-consuming, emphatically non-indie job at Microsoft,… Continue reading

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Dead. Dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Before going on vacation to Maui, I was working on backing up all the data from Cindy’s 1st-gen MacBook Air, after her hard disk started flaking out. That effort was thankfully, a success! Once the backup was done, I booted up my Lion recovery disk, and reinstalled the… Continue reading

Steve Blank on quitting his first job as an electronics tech at the nuclear reactor at U-Mich: Lessons Learned Things you can’t see can hurt you (microwaves, gamma rays, toxic bosses.) No job is worth your health. If it seems dangerous or stupid it probably is. Rules and regulations won’t stop all possible mistakes. No… Continue reading