A few weeks ago a friend and I spent a few hours trying to find me a mechanical keyboard. That sounds like it should take an afternoon. It does not. You pick one up and you fall straight through the floor of it, into switches, the little mechanisms under each key, linear or…
Design Isn't Learnt, It's Felt People always ask me how to get into design, and honestly I never have a good answer. Because design isn't something you just casually "do". You don't get into it like learning guitar chords off YouTube or deciding you want to bake a cake. Design…
I am, in love with Scalable Vector Graphics. With SVGs. Something about absolute perfection and precision, needing to be created out of a mathematical formula that will span decades of growth and advancements. The Scalable Vector Graphic format will stand the test of time as it…
You ever see that scene, be in a TV show or a movie, where a baby falls, and then the mother picks up the child and holds them close and pets them on the head while telling them "it’s ok, it’s ok. You’re ok, it’s fine, you’re ok, it’s ok", even if the baby has no concept of what…
1. The last time you made the mistake of making a home out of a pair of arms and a soft smile, you learned the hard way that anything that moves, that can blame, that can cause ache does not deserve such an elevated status in your heart. Still, you are an anomaly, a wild thing…
Most people spend at least a third of their lives being bored; and the strange part of it is that their so-called amusements bore them more than work. Put five or six people together on a business task and each will take considerable interest in it. They have to; their jobs…
BARBARA sat on the front steps playing with a big stuffed cat that Auntie Grace had given her on her birthday. Pretty soon she heard the gate slam, and saw Uncle Bob coming up the walk. "Hello, Barbara, why don't you have a truly kitten that will say 'meow' and play with its…