Hacker Ethic
“In general I have a hacker ethic regarding my work: I don’t really want my job to be neatly divisible from my life. The concepts and ideas that I bring to both are the same. ” – Jessamyn West
Open source
MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn’t agree with more. I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and full-featured websites and web systems for clients and our own projects. Open-source software isn’t just for geeks anymore, but a viable basis for ...
Blog comments on
I’ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time. It’s not that I haven’t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think. It probably has more to do with my art past and how I saw this site as my online database of ideas, creations, and influences. For me, blogging began ...
081505
“It’s a matter of projecting a persona and your perception of me.”
Qube Sign
Wicked car-as-sign.
One Year Later
Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected clients and projects. We’ve been enjoying a quintessential “night off” for some other web fun (making video snippets, redesigning blog pages, entering and ...
Designing Thinking
As a design-focused firm, I’m encouraged by the recent emphasis on business adopting more strategic design thinking and process techniques. I’m familiar with the same sources and I like how the author, LukeW, frames the differences in a “business” versus “design” approach in his post A Difference of Design. (Also see my post at BeingEDU ...
Barcode Building
I’ve always like the simplicity and functionality of bar codes. In art school, I made a series of oversized bar code prints as rough posters and had a collection of various bar codes pulled from packaging and collected in one sketchbook. So whenever I walk by this green building on Harrison during my walk to ...
Ideacodes to Create Wireframes and Visual Designs for Six Apart
Six Apart, the world’s leading weblog company, hires Ideacodes to assist in wireframe design and development, as well as interface and visuals for the next version of its popular blog service. Co-founded by Mena and Ben Trott, Six Apart began as a labor of love by the husband and wife duo that created Movable Type, ...
SF Night
Night time traffic on the interstate as seen from our window. Even after a year, this scene still fascinates me. Any hour of the day or night, endless cars stream across several curved interstate ramps running into the city and diverging onto ramps heading towards the bay bridge. (Shot on digital video, looped and converted ...
080105 Desktop
Some things are just liberating for all the right reasons (like working on your own websites).