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A Vision Thing
Most developers must be doing this, right? Wrong.
Jan 18, 2007
Adblock Plus Must Die
An anarchist superhero comes from the future to rid humans of ads forever.
Jan 5, 2007
An Uplifting Experience
I refer to the world of bras.
Feb 6, 2006
Battle of the Scrollbars
IE/Win handles scrollbars better than its betters.
Jan 2, 2006
Better Living Through Email Managment
More productive, less crazy.
May 25, 2007
Blue Sky Links
Should links always be underlined?
Mar 20, 2006
CAPTCHA Gotcha
This would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Jan 2, 2007
Clients and Copy
When the copy sucks, the website sucks.
Apr 6, 2006
Confessions of a Bad Designer
I'm a one-trick pony, and my trick doesn't necessarily work.
Jan 24, 2006
Death of a Standardista
I have no interest in building kick-ass containers for crappy content.
Sep 28, 2007
Google Co-op Custom Search—Now With Less Evil
Google's in-site search made accessible.
Sep 18, 2007
Great Copywriting—Not for Robots
Neither for the faint of heart nor the narrow of mind.
Sep 20, 2007
Hell Freezes Over
It took me nearly two years to make this website.
Jan 1, 2006
My New Business Strategy
I had come to think of business as a near-synonym for bullshit.
Jan 3, 2006
Pipe Dream
I just solved a longstanding CSS problem: pipe lists.
Mar 3, 2006
Playing the Percentages with Web Fonts
I've seen print designers cry when they realize this.
Jan 18, 2006
Printing a Logo
It's the usual battle of tradeoffs.
Feb 18, 2006
Search Engine Optimization and the Tightness of One's Pants
All-out SEO is like all-out bodybuilding: you end up a muscle-bound freak.
Sep 16, 2007
Search Me
How can one of the world's leading user experience groups get this wrong?
Feb 1, 2006
Seeing is Believing
Who out there can spot world-class markup and style?
Aug 22, 2006
Spammer Island
New heights of vengeful fantasy.
Feb 6, 2007
Super Duper Love
I asked the tech guy to send me their "customer for life" forms.
May 9, 2006
The Best Way to Organize A Stylesheet
Like the perfect mate, the perfect stylesheet is a mirage.
Nov 29, 2006
The Death of TimesSelect and the Future of Web Advertising
There's a lesson in this, and it's not that information wants to be free.
Sep 19, 2007
The Dirty Truth About CSS
It's a pain in the ass.
Feb 25, 2006
The Downer of Dropdowns
My heart sinks whenever a client asks for dropdown menus.
Mar 2, 2007
Vista
2011. That's the real vista we're facing.
Mar 22, 2006
When Design Matters Most
The first glance is everything.
Feb 1, 2007