35 articles and links tagged with “Personal”

1. The Overton Window at Work
   November 03, 2008

   The ‘Overton window’ is a bit of political jargon that describes how politicians influence the perceptions and debates that go on among the voting public. In this thinly veiled (but mercifully short) rant, I argue that it’s equally applicable to my workplace.

2. Gently abandoning dead (to me) projects
   October 18, 2008

   I've had a few bits of code floating around on the site for 2-3 years now without any serious investment of effort on my part. It’s time to throw in the towel, admit that I'm never actually going to touch them again, and set those loose.

3. Accessibility Tips from Mike Davies
   March 08, 2008

   Mike Davies, who has more accessibility knowledge in his little finger than most developers I know, has started a new site to share his wisdom with the rest of us. I'm looking forward to seeing what he puts out there.

4. Safegarding your data with Parchive
   January 20, 2008

   After a brief mishap with a hard drive, I've gone backup-crazy. This article looks how I'm using Parchive to give myself an extra bit of confidence in my backups.

5. Carlo's launched Escaloop
   January 13, 2008

   Carlo’s just launched his latest lifestream-badge-making project: Escaloop.

6. Innovation and Interoperability
   December 19, 2007

   Briefly, my thoughts on the current dustup over the W3C’s CSS Working Group.

7. DNS Made Easy is actually pretty easy
   December 15, 2007

   In a spontaneous burst of productivity, spawned mostly by my complete and utter failure as a sysadmin, I moved my parent’s email account off my server. DNS Made Easy made this a trivial task.

8. Solving strange text wrapping problems in `bash`
   December 12, 2007

   I started having strange text wrapping problems after implementing implementing the beautifully colored bash prompt I discussed on Monday. After fidgeting around a bit, I think I've come up with a solution.

9. Now I have a colourful `bash` prompt
   December 10, 2007

   My jealousy of Adriano’s pretty bash prompt has been assuaged by the construction of my own, prettier and more functional prompt. So there!

10. Presentation: Love the Terminal
    December 09, 2007

    When Murray and Norm solicited talks earlier in the year for the Yahoo! Frontend Summit, they somehow neglected to mention that the presentations would end up being hour-long blocks. :)

11. Photoset: @media Ajax
    November 26, 2007

    I still haven’t written anything useful about the @media Ajax conference, but here are some lovely pictures. Should be worth about 64,000 words, right?

12. Just back from London
    November 24, 2007

    I'm back from London after @media Ajax with some security papers for you to read, and not much else yet.

13. Goodbye Grandmom
    August 02, 2007

    My grandmom died today.

14. Playing with Pownce…
    July 11, 2007

    Pownce looks like a more interesting Twittr.

15. I am a Super Early Bird. Are you?
    June 25, 2007
16. Short-form Link Blogging
    June 10, 2007

    Blogging is hard for me, mostly because I have an irrational desire to make each of my posts “important” and “interesting”. I'm working out ways to solve that problem for myself…

17. Home again, home again…
    May 28, 2007
18. Stupid i18n Mistake.
    May 21, 2007

    Italian (and other languages) are full of single-quotes. Maybe I should escape them…

19. Words Escape Me
    May 16, 2007

    I'm bored, and even though I should be overflowing with things to write about, I'm not.

20. My bookmarks are amazingly out of date.
    May 06, 2007

    I'm removing the bookmarks from this site on a temporary basis. That should drive me insane enough to actually do something about the fact that they haven’t changed since last year.

21. Domain Transfer
    May 05, 2007

    I'm (finally) hopping off GoDaddy and onto Gandi. Hopefully nothing explodes…

22. ¡Es vivo!
    May 03, 2007

    We launched the Yahoo! News site in Spain today. Finally!

23. Stopgap Solution
    May 02, 2007

    I bought a Treo 600 on Ebay. And it’s huge. HUGE! But also very powerful and nice.

24. I used to be so pretty.
    April 26, 2007

    A few days ago, my landlord asked me if I was losing hair. sigh

25. Just the stats
    April 24, 2007

    A List Apart is running a survey to gather demographic info from web professionals; I think it could be a worthwhile enterprise.

26. It's live.
    April 03, 2007

    Today, we relaunched Yahoo! News in the UK. Finally.

27. Frohe Weihnachten!
    December 24, 2006
28. Apartments in Munich
    October 04, 2006

    Help me find an apartment, please?

29. Traffic Analysis with Mint
    September 26, 2006

    I use Mint to analyze the traffic on this website. It’s a powerful tool, made more powerful with some excellent plugins.

30. Articles about Interviewing
    September 04, 2006

    A short list of articles worth reading for interviewers or interviewees.

31. Answers to Common Technical Interview Questions
    September 04, 2006

    The interview articles I found yesterday had more than a few common “phone screen” questions that I decided to make sure I could answer: here’s what I came up with.

32. I Wonder What This Button Does
    July 25, 2006

    I've got an article up on A List Apart, introducing my favourite behind-the-scenes development tool: Subversion.

33. I wonder how to say 'ugh' in German?
    July 19, 2006

    I hate being sick.

34. Digital Web and Me
    July 02, 2006

    I've joined Digital Web Magazine’s editorial team. Yay!

35. New Server, New Design
    April 05, 2006

    I've redesigned, and moved the site to a new server. Exciting, eh?