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Dark Patterns 30 Apr 2013 | 06:54 pm
Dark patterns have been around for a couple of years, but it seems like the concept is gaining steam lately. It’s normal for design (and copy) to try to modify behavior, but with more and more frequen...
Ideas of March 15 Mar 2013 | 07:36 am
I wasn’t going to write about Ideas of March this year. I wasn’t even sure it was an idea worth spreading last year. It’s important to me, but I’m struggling to blog as often as I’d like, so I’m hardl...
XSS Is Still Tricky 8 Mar 2013 | 07:21 am
This works in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. Oh no! ";
2012 Highlights 3 Jan 2013 | 07:16 am
This is the tenth consecutive year that I’m recording highlights of the previous year. That’s quite a milestone. At the end of August, I will have ten full years of blog posts. A decade of blogging. H...
Election Coverage 7 Nov 2012 | 07:07 am
More and more people rely on the Internet rather than broadcast television for coverage of events like the election, but it still feels like we're in an awkward transition period. Here are the links f...
Goodbye, Sandy 1 Nov 2012 | 12:36 am
My family and I are fine. We have power, running water, and Internet. Many are not so lucky. Dozens lost their lives. Millions are without power. Billions will be spent repairing the damage. Sandy wo...
Lessons from Brooklyn Beta 16 Oct 2012 | 12:28 am
Last year at Brooklyn Beta, I kicked things off by sharing a couple of lessons I had learned. This year, the first couple of days were pretty hectic, but before I introduced Maciej Ceglowski on Friday...
Sync No More 16 Sep 2012 | 12:20 am
As developers, it's easy to use vocabulary that's familiar to us without considering whether it's familiar to other people. When making stuff for other developers, it doesn't matter, but when making s...
Apple Botches "Save As…" 16 Aug 2012 | 11:42 pm
I've been using OS X exclusively for quite a few years now, and I'm not alone. Go to any web conference, and you'll see that we're all using Macs these days. Sure, our servers are running other stuff,...
Discovering Favicons 17 Jul 2012 | 11:41 pm
A couple of months ago, I mentioned my collection of links and Planet Chris, both of which are now powered by Pinboard. I also hinted that I might release the latter as a DIY feed reader. I'm still n...
