Archive for category: Friends

Old-timers    (2018.09.05)

Web “pioneers,” all of whom are now above age 45, have a duty to be nice to each other, and not Anil Dash–level snide

The second-last man to take me seriously    (2015.08.28)

That would be Mr. SCOTT BOMS, who left Toronto for Facebook. He got out just in time

‘ “Sure,” I said’    (2011.10.26)

Cf. “Welcome to the fold, brother…. Do you reject Satan and all his evils?” “Sure”

How to do Web typography    (2011.09.02)

Jason Santa Maria re-redesigned his site with typography functionally identical to mine

Mogul in a suit    (2011.07.15)

Müllenweg is growing up terrifyingly before our very eyes, and has long since become a mogul

Eulogy for Maggie Patton    (2011.06.27)

My friend’s eulogy for his departed mother, preserved here

I was never ‘laissez-faire’    (2011.06.03)

‘I’m glad the friends I have now are involved enough in my life to try their damnedest, even risking what passed for “friendship” at that time, to try to prevent me from sliding into the decay I experienced in the ’90s as a result of “friends” who were so laissez-faire as to watch someone they claimed to care about slide into oblivion’

Trudging    (2011.02.27)

“Would what we’re doing now be called trudging?” asked my esteemed colleague from Perth

Every happy Web developer is happy in the same way    (2011.01.25)

Bullish, on-message technology podcasts that treat people like the latest gadget defeat the purpose of inviting peole onto the show in the first place. Tech podcasts are a mutual admiration society I consider harmful