Compared to a lot of tech users, I am not an “early adopter”. I refuse to buy v1 Apple products, bugs are irritating, lack of design polish is stupid, and having nothing to do on a site is boooooooooring. All this means, of course, is that I AM an early adopter when compared to non-tech [...]
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Social Discovery
Posted: December 9, 2011 in get fun, get pretty, mozilla, your startup is booooooooring5
Teachable Moments
Posted: November 15, 2011 in mozilla, occupy wall street, things are fucked up and bullshitI don’t often write about… serious things, and I even more rarely talk about them in a serious way. I prefer to talk about design, or rant about the world. Recent events, however brook no attempts at humor. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a “leftist” (or rather, I would, if you could [...]
Designers who can code
Posted: June 1, 2011 in a designer who can code isn't, disingenuous arguments make me cranky, janitors who can code makes me giggle, mozilla, rant, say what you mean peopleI understand and sympathize with the arguments for and against designers who can code. For me it boils down to question of what I to focus on honing. I’ve noticed that people who are really good at design think entirely differently than people who are really good at programming; the two modes of thought are [...]
The Full-Frontal, Reverse Myspace
Posted: April 19, 2011 in full-frontal means front-end, I'd need to think of a name for this that was a terrible pun, mozilla, Reverse Myspace means giving the user control, why isn't this a thing already?You remember Myspace right? That thing that some people were on before we realized that Facebook was way, way better. The thing is, letting people create their own “look” isn’t a far-fetched idea; it’s a logical extension of the model the web already runs on. Website creators determine the look and feel of their site, [...]
Like a BOSS!!!
Posted: March 21, 2011 in Alt + Tab is the original boss mode, duty shirking sounds funny, Firefox panorama like a boss, mozilla, Tony Danza would still catch youI have a big mouth (that’s what she… damnit, I shouldn’t do that to myself). Accordingly you’ve probably heard from me that I work on the Firefox Panorama project. That tidbit out of the way, I can explain to you that I was writing a FAQ for the feature for the upcoming Fx4 release. In [...]
