The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
A couple of weeks ago I did that thing that people do where I mentally strung together a series of crappy things that happened and decided I was having The. Worst. Week. Ever. Looking back I’m...
View ArticleAccused sexist: “I have a daughter”
Lately I’ve been hearing men who want to prove they’re feminists say this: “I have a daughter.” I get it. They’re saying that even though they are men, they have a vested interest in making sure women...
View ArticleFirefox OS
This weekend I had the chance to play with a phone running Firefox OS, a relatively new open source mobile operating system. The Flame is the Firefox OS reference device, basically the first Nexus of...
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Burning down the app
One of my favorite scenes from HBO’s Silicon Valley is when Jared, the soft-spoken, long-suffering project manager in the new company, draws a burn down chart on a whiteboard. Man, I love burn down...
View Article2014 Year in Review: A Bit Much
The weird thing about coming up my 40th birthday is a small but growing sense of urgency that I'm running out of years that I'll be able to go all out, balls to the wall, and Do All The Things. I find...
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Episode 282
Today's episode, the 282nd of This Week in Google, is my last as a regular weekly host. I am stepping away from hosting All About Android as well; next Tuesday will be my last episode there. My...
View ArticleYou-you are so much better than exhibitionist-you
Years ago, I asked a friend of mine if he'd seen a blog post by a mutual friend. "I don't read his blog," he told me. Ever? "Nope." I was surprised. These two had known each other for years, and hung...
View ArticleThe Great Twitter Unfollow
At the very end of last year, I realized something: for me, more than anything else, Twitter had become a destructive distraction. Scrolling through my home timeline stressed me out. Notifications of...
View ArticleJust five bucks a month
I was a web developer for nearly 20 years before I ever built web pages that accept payments from customers. I'm not sure if that’s a comment on my career in particular or the industry as a whole. But...
View ArticleSmarterware.org has new owners
Quick announcement: My long-abandoned tech blog, Smarterware.org, has new owners. There is new content showing up there, and it is not by me. It’s great news! I started that site back in 2009 and...
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