When culling my Twitter stream, I wondered why so many great front-end developers I follow have so few followers. A fellow frontie convinced me to list them all here for your convenience!
Read More...Ramblings
Work is never done.
Sometimes I have to be firm with myself to release projects, even if I’m tempted to keep pushing deadlines back in hopes of achieving ‘perfection.’ But today’s perfection is tomorrow’s failure. Weigh your time, your manpower, and the needs of your users against your to-do list, and don’t shortchange the most important people in the equation to satisfy your own sense of achievement.
Read More...Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)
I wanted to contribute to a few GitHub repos, but all of my pull requests got shot down. Where did I go wrong? How would you recommend I go about it in the future?
Read More...Golden Uterus Redux
A retrospect on the discussion surrounding my previous post, ‘How to Scare off Female Developers,’ and Mark Jaquith’s Golden Uterus… in comic form!
Read More...How to scare off female developers
I know developers of both sexes don’t have a reputation for being the most socially adept creatures. But would it hurt male developers like Mark Jaquith to try to not piss female developers off?
Read More...What–I don’t even: Comment tags and HTML5
I have complained that the HTML5 spec is too blog-centric ever since my beloved dialong tag got cut. But apparently it’s not blog-centric enough to have a comment tag. In HTML5, we’re supposed to markup comments as articles nested within the article they comment on. I see a number of ways this method could fail, both in implementation and interpretation.
Read More...New Year, New Company, New Site
Somehow I managed to change jobs just at the beginning of 2012. I’ve built this new site, shut down my old, and have embarked on yet another leg of my career journey. Year of the Dragon, I’m going to kick your ass.
Read More...Between the head and the hand there must be User Experience
Recently at the Web Professional’s Book Club some of my cohorts professed a lack of faith in “UX” or “User Experience” professionals, casting them alongside SEO salesmen. I was shocked. In all my career, I have always looked up to UXers as a sort of glowing stag in the forest of the Internet. We are surrounded by bad design and clumsy interfaces. I always imagined user experience designers as the people behind the bright spots on the Internet, a force to be respected and emulated. So naturally I was a bit bewildered. Do we really need User Experience Designers? I think so.
Read More...Are Startups Worse as Single-Gender Affairs?
Penelope Trunk’s op ed “Are Startups Better as Single-Gender Affairs?” article raised a few eyebrows and a few voices in the female web workers community. My two cents? People are people, and startups should be like families, not monocultures.
Read More...Of WordPress, comics, and webdesign: Speaking at function pink() and NC Dev Con
I’m giving two talks in the next two months: a workshop on WordPress theme development and a talk about telling your site’s story with words and pictures based on my experience as a cartoonist. Do pop by and have a look if you’re in Raleigh!
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