The franticness of working in the web business

Some interesting quotes by Richard Davey from his talk HTML5 Gaming on the Mobile Web is now live on Adobe TV: Things you’re told not possible today might be by the end of the project and Be prepared to un-learn what you know every 6 months Think of new features that appear in a canary/beta …

Openness does not scale

Openness and success are not compatible. Openness does not scale, no matter how hard you try. Openness does not scale → Related: Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong, a Chrome Developer talking about the aforementioned Blink: When landing a patch in both WebKit and Chromium stretches into a multi-day dance of flags, …

Responsive Struggle

Photo by Marc Thiele Once you overcome that initial struggle of adapting to a new process, designing and building responsive sites needn’t take any longer, or cost any more money. The real obstacle is designers and developers being set in their ways. I know this because I was one of those people, and to those …

Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please don’t help my kids

They’re not here to be at the top of the ladder; they are here to learn to climb. If they can’t do it on their own, they will survive the disappointment. What’s more, they will have a goal and the incentive to work to achieve it. It is not my job — and it is …