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2015
May
Short Notes on Instant Articles
2014
November
Video Chat Not Weird Anymore
October
Full stack is more then a checkbox for your startup
Markdown 2: The Second One
August
We Launched It
May
On To My Next Adventure
February
How Vox Media Creates News Products
Try Out The App.net Comments Widget
All the things: Paper vs Unread
January
A Newspaper of Images
Comet — My ADN hack project
I’m the newest contributor to The Changelog
FeedShare: an OPML sharing service
2013
December
Introducing Lark a RESTy interface for Redis
November
The Story of ADNpy: An App.net API Client
September
Feedbin.me Goes Open Source
June
Open Question: What’s the impact of Reader’s shutdown on traffic?
The Rumproarious eBook
Network Thinking In TV
What Would a Facebook Reader Mean?
Tastestalking
Juxtapositon In Feed Readers
Reading Efficiently
May
More On Sync and RSS
Two Quotes About Google Reader
Sync Is Key For Feed Readers
Super Human Reading Powers
The Pogue Piece on Reader
Context Is King
We Are In The RSS Cambrian Explosion
April
Feeds on an Internet
How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?
How Big is the RSS Market?
March
Brent Simmons Creates RSS Sync Mailing List
Waiting for Chris Wetherell
App.net and Feed Readers
Wow, just wow
February
What I’m Reading
Edward Tufte quote of the day
My Not So Helpful Getting Started With Pythonista Guide
January
Be Guilt Free
2012
December
Tablets are waiting for their Bloglines
November
An App.net and Webscript.io example
October
Markdown: The Spec
Going Long On Markdown
September
I Got 99 Free Services But A Backup Ain’t One
The Inflection Point
August
Optimistic Server Interactions
App.net is a notch on my belt
App.net is a notch on my belt
Finished the Hack
CORS is pretty awesome
Weekend App.net Hack Project
July
Standards spelunking, App.net, and a change of heart
Damn if feels good to be a gangsta
Goliath is to Twitter as David is to what?
Goliath is to twitter like David is to what?
June
The New Aesthetic of Feeds
Bookmarklets Show Key RSS Users
Who do we code for?
Hello
February
RSS and New Media - comments so far
A twitter conversation with Dave Winer
January
RSS needs better PR
The Missing Critical Blogs
Pinboard, FTW!
2011
December
Simple Tools
Family and startups do they mix?
November
Killer instinct as a driving force
Google Reader Has Transitioned
October
Reader Roundup Iranians, R$$, and More Funny Please.
What are people saying about Google Reader?
With google reader changing is there a competitor looming?
Google news is getting in on badges
Google Dart – what does everyone think?
What we need in mobile browsers
July
Epic Google Reader Thread on Hacker News
Why I wrote Code Polution
A quick rebuttal for CSS Lint
Does Journalism need its own silicon valley?
Why is curation blown out the box on twitter?
Google+ seems to be appropriating shared Google Reader items
June
My first attempt at figuring out why The Awl is so good.
“Why’s this so good?”, or Blog Critique Found
5 good links
Another reason family, and kids can focus your mind.
Work Better, Reporting On, Grids, and an Awesome Short Story; Some bits.
More Bits: Fixing the news, Risk Management, Campaign Finance Reform, Top UI Designers.
Some bits: Tools, Pop Software, History, and Hand Writing
Some Articles: Authentication, Painting, Citizen Journalism, and Angle Investing
More Posts: Database, Reading, Pageviews, and Firehose’s
Blog critique, where is it?
More Articles: Flipboard, Gladwell, Interactive Fiction, and Smallcore
More Articles: Business, Markets, Books, and python.
More good posts
Declaring Instapaper Bankrupcy
May
A screen cast of my jQueryCon11 talk: Path to Hybrid
Curators steal, but that’s not the problem.
A quickie about how I use rss
April
My #jqcon talk
March
Reading Code
RSS, I can’t quit you.
An answer to a question I am asked occasionally
I have to say it, RSS is not dead.
Giving Up, or Giving In
February
ifttt.com a new swiss army knife for social
Goodbye PHP
January
Group chat and Pizza
A diff is better then a comment
2010
December
Switching blogging engines.
Doing a Pixel Ping without a server
One facet of idea generation, capture, and organization
November
Why instapaper for video as an iOS app is a long ways away
The limits of localStorage
October
For the uninitated IRC is awesome
When does it make sense to use objects? answer /via @rmurphey
Working for a startup has more layers then I ever imagined
Hacker from both Flickr, and Stamen Design writes about curation.
Targeting high-res displays, and using css sprites.
CSS preprocessors like LESS, and SASS can be inefficient, but have some hidden gems
September
Making Progressively Enhanced Pasta
I am leaving Yahoo!
Storing data from the Twitter streaming API within a django project
I wrote a guest post for the DailyJS: The Future of Mobile Sync
git + fabric = awesome deploy team
August
Medium, Curators, and Jason Santa Maria
HTML5 Brief: in a couple paragraphs
How I, as low-ranking employee, am going to change Yahoo
July
Gruber is wrong about OpenAppMkt the fight for open is about distribution
I just read the most wonderful short story: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
The mosh pit and cognative surplus.
Knowing your food; Palo Santo Marron beer from Dogfish Head.
Salt & Fat: a nicely done, and consistent food blog
June
Two Kids, In Two Years: Best Time Management Strategy Ever
Building Local HTML5 Apps With Prism
Lets Go With HTML5 Apps
A Response to Meyer’s “App Shopping”
May
Published An Article On The YUI Blog
User Driven Design, Requires Talking To Users
Such Great Heights - an anthem for us
Curated Streams Will Beat Popularity Streams Any Day Of The Week
Ruby, oEmbed, and Embedly - all that was needed was a little love
Rails one month in; Deployment is nice; still more to learn
Universal Feed Parser is awesome, except for embedded videos.
April
My daughter, and ruby; Cut from the same cloth.
Rails; Two Weeks In; Coming from Django
Drupal presentation redux and extra links
Starting My Morning Listening To People Talk About Open Source
Built in dev servers are awesome. DrupalCon; Core Developers Summit; Presentation Proposal
Me Speaking at SuperHappyDevHouse
I just did a lightning talk at SuperHappyDevHouse
HBO’s ‘Make It’; too short; but left a big impression
We Need More Heros, I Will Be Writing About Mine
March
Alex Kessinger Drupal Con SF 2010 Presentation Notes Page
How Editing For Twitter Flips My Creative Switch
Updated My DrupalConSF session description.
Right Person Right Place Edward Tufte appointed by President Obama
February
Am I missing something, or is Feedly just pretty?
January
Launching ExplainThis.org - I helped develop the code
2009
November
BlakRoc - The Black Keys Make A Rap Album
October
Using Your Web Skills To Write iPhone Apps
September
Google Reader Globalness Is Surprising