Well Said
by paul on September 18, 2011
One company that just launched at Disrupt is trying to fix medical bills. Another wants to bring fresh produce from farmers direct to households. Another company built the universal translator from Star Trek. Good software developers invent the future. This (…)
Creating things…
by paul on September 5, 2011
When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create. Why the Lucky Stiff
JW Player and Internet Explorer
by paul on August 22, 2011
At work we use the JW Player for all our online video and it’s great. The only problem is, for the longest time, using custom skins on the player causes IE 7 and 8 to lock up in a very (…)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
by paul on August 20, 2011
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. From Wikipedia This could be quite possibly one of the (…)
People who can code…
by paul on August 19, 2011
People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to (…)
WordPress 3.2 Dashboard update
by paul on July 15, 2011
A great post on the redesign of the wordpress admin dashboard. It contains my new favorite quote: “No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.” Design in WordPress (…)
Tiny pictures
by paul on May 4, 2011
I need to find a smaller pen.
I was wrong
by paul on April 17, 2011
For a while there in 2010 I was red hot on the “Flash is awesome for everything” side of the debate started by Steve Jobs infamous “Thoughts on Flash” memo. Frankly, I must have written a dozen red hot posts (…)
Save your Cleverness…
by paul on March 30, 2011
“Take the shortcut. Build the product. And if later, it turns out you made a design mistake, refactor the code. But at least you will have a product that your users love.” http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Mar-29.html
A Collection of Odd Things…
by paul on January 11, 2011
For the 3 people that read this (my wife, my mom, and some unknown lurker in Romania) this is actually version 2 of my blog – I had one before this where I would draw…well, things. There was no theme (…)
