My pal Mark and I launched Some Demands on October 15, 2011, 28 days after the first gathering in Zucotti Park (and three days after having the idea for the site!). While public support of #occupy was rising, so were criticisms that … Continue reading
Hearing about these two current events in the same news broadcasts this week has given me a bit of cultural whiplash. I own and use a few Apple products, most of which I need in order to do my job. … Continue reading
We get these Bed Bath & Beyond coupons in the mail roughly once a week. Perhaps you’ve seen them? Anyway, I’ve never once used one, mostly because I don’t even know where one is around here. So a few weeks … Continue reading
Today, I came across the idea (probably via stackoverflow) of technical debt. To quote Martin Fowler: You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick … Continue reading
Over the spring and summer, I had the opportunity to work with Local Projects on the companion website to the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. The memorial doesn’t open until 9/11/11, but you can already start exploring the names on the … Continue reading