This is your body on chairs: Electrical activity in the muscles drops — “the muscles go as silent as those of a dead horse,†Hamilton says — leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic... Read more
Had a blast this weekend at GitHub’s inaugural conference, CodeConf, where I got to give a new talk on building community around open source software based on my experience at Expert L... Read more
One of Edward Tufte‘s mantras is “Zero out the interface,” and I took that to heart when I “redesigned” this site by removing everything extraneous—header... Read more
Tapioca Straitjacket
From Jon Evans’ epic rant about Facebook Comments: God forbid that they even pay lip service to the notion that users might perhaps be given options—for then they might start to use... Read more