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Android is better 12 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
It was just meant to be a quick experiment. I started using a Nexus 4. I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week. I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realized ...
Storage for Photographers 10 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those photo RAWs filling up the tiny-compared-to-spinning-platters SSD on their primary machine. Easy...
Simplify. 30 Apr 2013 | 09:00 pm
I have been thinking a lot about simplifying my life recently. I started a stellar new job four months ago and it felt like a great time to change other parts of my life. I used to be a slave to my s...
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2) 13 Mar 2013 | 09:00 pm
This is the last part in my three-part series about the design and development of a responsive and so-called Retina-friendly website. While I have covered my development process, media queries for res...
My Setup 18 Feb 2013 | 01:10 pm
I have always been a fan of The Setup and have been maintaining my own Stuff I Use page for some years now so it only made sense that I would eventually write my own such article. This is how I work a...
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1) 23 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
In my last post, Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site, I covered my design process and thoughts behind redesigning this site. I did not cover any aspects of actual development or any Jekyll sp...
Joining Twitter 14 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
I have always wanted to work at Twitter but never actually thought about it until Akash Garg reached out a few months ago1. Yes, this is a post announcing that I have joined the flock at Twitter. I si...
Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site 6 Jan 2013 | 06:20 am
It's hard to believe I have been blogging for more than 7 years. Michael Wozniak, my hallmate during my freshman year at Georgia Tech, had gotten me into Gentoo Linux the year prior and told he was pl...
Twitter Review: New Gmail iPhone app 7 Dec 2012 | 02:28 am
Google recently released a new iPhone app for Gmail this week to much fanfare. After the third blog post citing how "slick" it was, I gave it a go myself. I currently use Sparrow for email on my Phone...
Culture 6 Sep 2012 | 03:00 am
I recently read Alex MacCaw's article, What it’s like to work for Stripe, while on a much needed vacation. Alex, whom I first discovered via his post on asynchronous UIs and then traveling the world, ...