All posts
2015
May
Short Notes on Instant Articles2014
November
Video Chat Not Weird AnymoreOctober
Full stack is more then a checkbox for your startupMarkdown 2: The Second One
August
We Launched ItMay
On To My Next AdventureFebruary
How Vox Media Creates News ProductsTry Out The App.net Comments Widget
All the things: Paper vs Unread
January
A Newspaper of ImagesComet — 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 RedisNovember
The Story of ADNpy: An App.net API ClientSeptember
Feedbin.me Goes Open SourceJune
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 RSSTwo 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 InternetHow Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?
How Big is the RSS Market?
March
Brent Simmons Creates RSS Sync Mailing ListWaiting for Chris Wetherell
App.net and Feed Readers
Wow, just wow
February
What I’m ReadingEdward Tufte quote of the day
My Not So Helpful Getting Started With Pythonista Guide
January
Be Guilt Free2012
December
Tablets are waiting for their BloglinesNovember
An App.net and Webscript.io exampleOctober
Markdown: The SpecGoing Long On Markdown
September
I Got 99 Free Services But A Backup Ain’t OneThe Inflection Point
August
Optimistic Server InteractionsApp.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 heartDamn 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 FeedsBookmarklets Show Key RSS Users
Who do we code for?
Hello
February
RSS and New Media - comments so farA twitter conversation with Dave Winer
January
RSS needs better PRThe Missing Critical Blogs
Pinboard, FTW!
2011
December
Simple ToolsFamily and startups do they mix?
November
Killer instinct as a driving forceGoogle 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 NewsWhy 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 HybridCurators steal, but that’s not the problem.
A quickie about how I use rss
April
My #jqcon talk March
Reading CodeRSS, 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 socialGoodbye PHP
January
Group chat and PizzaA 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 awayThe limits of localStorage
October
For the uninitated IRC is awesomeWhen 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 PastaI 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 MariaHTML5 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 distributionI 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 EverBuilding Local HTML5 Apps With Prism
Lets Go With HTML5 Apps
A Response to Meyer’s “App Shopping”
May
Published An Article On The YUI BlogUser 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 PageHow 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 code2009
November
BlakRoc - The Black Keys Make A Rap AlbumOctober
Using Your Web Skills To Write iPhone AppsSeptember
Google Reader Globalness Is Surprising