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Mar 21, 2015 • 1 min read

What's Your Intuition of the Web?

I have a question for the non-programmers reading this: when you use the web, what is your intuition about how the whole thing works?

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Feb 17, 2015 • 4 min read

Web Tech: An Accidental Abomination

The modern web is an amazing piece of technology. It is a platform for connecting people and technology in a way few imagined. This would never have happened by attempting...

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Feb 05, 2015 • 2 min read

HyperCard

HyperCard was a piece of software bundled for free with original Macs in the late 80s and into the 90s. It’s probably my favourite piece of software, but very hard...

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Feb 04, 2015 • 5 min read

This is Not the Future I was Promised

I’m deeply disappointed with modern technology. The smartest minds of my generation are inventing surfaces for somewhere to strap ads. A product is successful if it gives a 5.3% increase...

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Oct 11, 2011 • 1 min read

Steve.

As everyone knows by now, Steve Jobs died last Wednesday, 5th of October. I first found about it while browsing twitter, sitting in the departure lounge of San Francisco International...

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Apr 20, 2009 • 1 min read

New Metaphors

So, if you're going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that's immediately obvious and take no more...

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Apr 14, 2009 • 1 min read

Just Because it is Possible

Still, there's nothing technically preventing you from using [mouse button] chording in your program. If you want to code it up, then more power to you. Why is there no...

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Apr 13, 2009 • 6 min read

Designing Technology around People

George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he...

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