I’ve been in the Bay Area since Monday. I had some work-related obligations but I had planned this trip to do what I loved most from my time I lived here: go mountain biking. It’s been ove…

To all the presenters of conferences, workshops, and meetups: I truly enjoy hearing your anecdotes and learning things from you. I like laughing at your jokes, especially the puns. Unfortunately, some…

I’ve seen two things in the last two days that made me think of books I’ve read, dystopian future books, and welp, here we are with things from them happening in the real world. First up is the fa…

If you haven’t been paying attention, I’m starting to speak again at PHP conferences. The first one is SunshinePHP in Florida. (I figured I needed to see the Sunshine State again before it all goe…

We're looking for more authors to help us out by writing about Testing, Localization Testing, Test Automation, and related topics. These are contract positions: you write a blog post, we pay you. We'r…

Augmented reality has been on marketers’ minds for years now — and there’s a good reason for it. Augmented reality (or AR) is a technology that layers computer-generated images on top of the…

I’m in serious catch up mode as far as reading, so yesterday I finally made time to sit down and read Mat Marquis’ Image Performance brief from A Book Apart. It’s a quick read that is well worth…

my wife Ami launched the first expansion to her card game, I helped with the design…

I’ve been playing around with the newly-released Squoosh, the spiritual successor to Jake’s SVGOMG. You can drag images into the browser window, and eyeball the changes that any optimisa…

Most applications send emails to communicate with their users. Transactional emails are those triggered by the user’s interaction with the application, such as when welcoming a new user after re…

Downstream — Trip 8 London, UK Tuesday, November 13th 2018, 09:12 GMT On the previous trip I walked from Teddington Lock to the Golden Jubi…

I told myself at the 6 month mark of fun employment I’d publish my notes about what I’d been up to. I missed that. Did some yak shaving. Having a couple of different blog redesigns in various st…

It’s been 6ish months since I left Blink, and it was my birthday this last weekend. To celebrate I’m taking a few moments to write down some notes about what I’ve been up to. These notes are v…

Design as Art is a slim volume by Bruno Munari, originally published in Italian in 1966 and translated and published in English in 1971. Someone at some point recommended it to me and I’m fairly sur…