Presenting: “A Hybrid How-to — Understanding the Designer/Developer”

I presented work to 500 people in November at the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco. At Pecha-Kucha, a sort of design meetup / speed-critique presenters have six minutes, 20 images, and just 20 seconds per image to make their mark. I presented my art and design hackshit as a backdrop over tips on surviving […]

Maker Faire 2007

click to view the photos of Maker Faire 2007.

The Power of Holding a Color

The street finds its own use for things, as William Gibson once said. So what can we do with hardware store paint chips? Plenty, it turns out.

(The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS

AKA, “Secrets of the patented JM3 Gasbag Model™” - a getting-started list to make sense of CSS. [2,547 diggs and counting.]

The Point of CSS is to use clean, simple HTML in your page, then write CSS “rules” that style the objects on your page. The page stays clean and looks cool, and your HTML page […]

Creating Maps of Source Code

I live in a highly linked environment.
Links, quotations, and cross-referenced source code mean that I waste a lot of mental space on maps of how certain functions call other functions, or how source files include other source files, and in what order.
What if there were automated ways to visualize the links? Ways to create a […]