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[Campfire] Figure 1 ↩︎ If you’ve visited the site in the last week or so, you may have noticed that I’m experimenting with Campfire as a replacement for comments. This is a quick retrospective about how it’s gone. The Campfire experiment is now well…

Even the longest journeys begin with a single step. The redesign of this site is just that—one step. It isn’t meant to be revolutionary or flashy. Instead, it’s meant to enable and focus on the creation of better content.

We take a good look through SimpleLog, a Ruby on Rails weblog application that does less. It’s designed to be simple, as the name indicates, and focuses on writing above all else. For some time now, Garrett Murray has been quietly and diligently…

it’s time for the second installment of Trick Your TextMate. We’re going to explore snippets and learn how you can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts and tab triggers to cut down on those superfluous keystrokes. One of the features of TextMate…

I offered up a subset of my Visio wireframe stencils over at YourTotalSite in the recent past, and there seemed to be some pretty good interest in seeing more. While I don’t have any wireframe examples to show the world just yet, I can do the next best…

I’m fascinated by the increasing frequency with which designers are becoming interested in programming. It seems that every day I’ll run across another designer who wants to write code. Now, I’m not talking about hacking a couple spots of code here and…

Is it any less impressive if somebody creates a beautiful CSS site that completely falls apart at a different font size? I sure think so. I’m not saying a site should hold its visual design together if somebody bumps up the text 5 or 6 notches, but if…