Category: Rants

  • Conflaticons

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    Today Twitter rebranded “Stars” & “Favorites” to “Hearts” & “Likes” https://twitter.com/twitter/status/661558661131558915 It’s so obviously a horribly conflated notion that I struggle to believe a team of thousands of people came to this as the logical conclusion to what was undoubtedly hundreds of hours of meetings & deliberation that will someday result in a tell-all novella titled:…

  • Responsive Design is a Hack

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    Responsive design has become a quick-and-dirty way to say “Hey! We looked at this on not-just-a-PC!” Our users deserve so much better — something that intentionally works with the ever-increasing array of input methods. Keyboards, cursors, touch, voice, & motion; the digital world has never been simultaneously as accessible and as overtly complicated as it is today. Netflix…

  • PHP5 Visibility and WordPress

    tl;dr – PSA about PHP5 visibility and it having the potential to change what we love about WordPress. Ergo: use it correctly. —- Leading projects like BuddyPress and bbPress, I tend to work closely with the WordPress team and mirror the development paradigms as much as it makes sense to. We’re doing tandem development, after all —…

  • Circles

    There’s a reason why Google chose circles for its new Google + social graph, and it isn’t just because it’s a clever name. If you search Google’s archive of images for the phrase “social graph” every single relevant image that comes up portrays relationships as being circular. In the screen shot above, it’s clear that…

  • Waiting…

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    I dislike waiting. Particularly in situations where I can’t be productive, or where people prevent me from being so. I’m sitting at the Honda dealership waiting for my third visit in almost as many weeks for squeaky brakes. Keep in mind my brakes weren’t squeaking when I originally came in for routine maintenance. And that…