My Year in Review: 2025
I was prompted to write a year in review and had to dust off this blog. I haven’t written here in five years! My last year in review was over 10 years ago…
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All software advice is wrong
Advice without context
Twenty-five days of design
I spent the month of December completing the #DailyUI challenges – a series of design prompts.
Creative Selection: How Apple builds products with demos, taste, and leverage
Creative Selection (“Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs”) is a first-hand account of Ken Kocienda’s project history at Apple. Kocienda – a software engineer – describes his experiences building Safari, WebKit, and the first touch keyboard for the original iPhone and finds the commonalities in process that lead to success.
The trouble with timestamps
This tweet was sent about 2 hours ago.
This committee is a pointless time suck
I’ve been on a dozen committees (or “company initiatives” or “recurring discussions” or “organizational development groups”) and their value has varied wildly.
:hammer: Building a :bug: Fuzzy :smile: Emoji :mag: Finder :100:
A while back I was on a project and, for whatever reason, our team started checking every morning to see what holiday it was and to bond over the absurdity of some of the holidays.
Evaluating project opportunities
I’ve been having conversations at work about how to evaluate software project opportunities for our firm.
How to start a peer group
A super tactical list for starting a peer group.
Software ate the world
It’s been over five years since Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “software is eating the world”. And he was right. Every person I talk to is using software in their job.