Quitting the WP Engine Habit for Good
There are much better Wordpress hosts out there, here's a story of finding an amazingly fast Wordpress host.
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Leaving WP Engine for the First Time
It started innocently enough. A little hiccup in one of the more popular sites I run. As page load time spiked to more than 15s I reached out to the WP Engine Support team to get it fixed. Page...
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Android is Awful
Android is awful. The Nexus 6 unboxing experience as enduring by an iPhone user.
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Leaving Chrome Behind
Chrome was once the quintessential browser, yet many years of bloat have lead to it's slow decline.
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The difference between compromise and mediocrity
Excellent products have compromises. So do mediocre ones. How do you tell which compromises will lead you to greatness?
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It’s More Than an Engineering Problem – Why Apple Pay will succeed
To an engineer, any problem is an engineering problem. Unfortunately for Android NFC payments aren't an engineering problem.
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Google is freaking me out
Last week Google acquired Skybox, a satellite imaging company. This is hot on the heels of acquiring Titan Aerospace – a drone company, Boston Dynamics – a robot company that had military contracts at the time of acquisition, and Deepmind –...
Read moreTesla wraps shrewdness in altruism
I have a little more cynical take on Tesla’s announcement. I think it’s a play to get other auto makers reliant on Tesla’s infrastructure as a way to: 1. Give them scale to build charging stations and batteries 2. Make...
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9 reasons your web browser is holding back the Internet
As far as modern browsers have come, there is still much that keeps the web from fulfilling it's true potential. Here's 9 ways in which the web browser is holding back the Internet.
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The three eras of iPad apps
If you’re designing an iPad app, don’t stop at the guidelines that Apple provides you. Delightful is possible, and magical within reach. Stretch the touch metaphors. Create an engaging experience that is only possible on a touch device.
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