Weird as it is, here’s human nature at work. Let’s say that I have a cheeseburger and you’re hungry. I tell you that I’ll sell you the cheeseburger for $10. You say, “pff, no way — too expensive.” Oh well, I eat the cheeseburger and call it a day. But I’ve learned my lesson. The…
Understanding the Idea of Monoculture One morning last week, I was catching up on backlogged podcasts in my Doggcatcher feed on the way to work and was listening to an episode of Hanselminutes where Scott Hanselman interviewed a front end web developer named Garann Means. The subject of the talk was what they described as…
I’ll have that for you next week. Oh, you want it to do that other thing that we talked about earlier where it hides those controls depending on what the user selects? I’ll have it for you next month. Oh, and you also want the new skinning and the performance improvements too? I’ll get started…
During the 1950s, a then-unknown journalist named Hunter Thompson briefly held a job working for Time Magazine. During his tenure there, he used a typewriter to type the text, verbatim, of novels by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in order to feel what it was like to write a novel in the literary voice…
Last week, I spent some time in two Egyptian cities: Alexandria and Cairo. I enjoyed this a lot. The Egyptian people were very friendly and good-natured, and there were some truly fascinating sites to see. Beyond just the obvious trip to the Pyramids, I saw Greco-Roman ruins, an incredible library in Alexandria, forts constructed during…
