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My Last Three Months Blogging Under Fear 8 Jul 2013 | 10:50 am
I was in a bar with Rob Dodson three months ago discussing all manner of topics. About two drinks in, the conversation turned to Rob’s last big spurt of blogging. He knew just how hard it is to keep a...
Frank 0.10.0 is coming 1 Jul 2013 | 10:10 am
Frank 0.10.0 is in the works and it marks a pretty considerable shift from prior releases. The upcoming version has removed quite a few features to focus entirely on the reading experience. The 0.10.0...
Stepping Away from the Trough 21 Jun 2013 | 09:56 pm
Earl Butz was the US Secretary of Agriculture who shifted domestic policy to support large-scale farm production. As a man who grew up through the Great Depression, poverty and hunger no doubt influen...
The Age of Immortality is Over 12 Jun 2013 | 10:17 pm
In the past, media and information was sparser, thus great works of art, music and literature shone brightly for great periods of time. In turn, a person’s relationship with media was cherished, deep,...
Everything is a Prototype 5 Jun 2013 | 10:11 pm
Designers spend their entire day prototyping, they just don't know it. The things designers create are more than a deliverable or an artifact, they are a learning opportunity to make the work better.
Design is Implicit Education 30 May 2013 | 11:39 pm
I played a lot of baseball in my youth. Through all the years I took the sport seriously, I had a pitching coach named Lefty. I didn’t realize it at the time, but he was the best teacher I ever had. I...
Open Source Projects Must be Bigger than the Languages They’re Written In 26 May 2013 | 10:47 am
When WordPress was first created, PHP was the obvious language to write it in. The language was pervasive, was all but ubiquitous on hosting servers and was considered a current language. That has cha...
The Best Way is Through 16 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
My Grandmother was dying. She was in the hospital, being monitored before she was sent home with hospice care. Everyone in the room knew the end was not far away. My wife and I had driven to be there ...
Metaphors, Idioms and Why the Save Icon is Broken 12 May 2013 | 09:51 am
Metaphors are great, until they lose their meaning. Then they become confusing, seemingly arbitrary phrases to those not in the know. The save icon is an idiom in visual form and there's nothing good ...
Frank 0.9.2 Released 30 Apr 2013 | 10:51 pm
It’s been a long time coming, but the next version of Frank has been released. This is a significant update and is intended to set the stage for the foreseeable future releases. Perhaps the biggest ch...
