On Bird Calls and Pishing
This week a group of us were chatting about bird calls, and birding via sound vs. sight. I was reflecting later that most of the birding »
On Sabbatical
As I begin the new year, I'm trying something new. I'll be taking a sabbatical for all of 2016. Normally at this time of year I'm »
How to become a Fool Stack Programmer
At least once in your career as a programmer, and hopefully more than once and with deliberate regularity, it is important to leave the comfort of »
The kind of open source I admire
There are a number of ways that a project or company can look at contributions from "the community." Let me start by saying that in almost »
Introducing a New Thimble and Bramble
Introduction This week we're shipping something really cool with Mozilla, and I wanted to pause and tell you about what it is, and how it works. »
Squashing patellar tendinitis
This morning I awoke to a reminder in my calendar that made me really happy. Three months ago I set an event that said I could »
Messing with MessageChannel
We're getting close to being able to ship a beta release of our work porting Brackets to the browser. I'll spend a bunch of time blogging »
Learning to git bisect
Yesterday one of my students hit a bug in Brackets. We're working on an extension for Thimble that adds an autocomplete option to take a selfie »
Repeating old mistakes
This morning I've been reading various posts about the difficulty ahead for the Pointer Events spec, namely, Apple's (and by extension Google's) unwillingness to implement it. »
Embedding license data in images
This term I've got a good group of students taking my second open source course. Unlike the first course, which aims to teach the theory and »
Avocation
Over the holidays I had a chance to read Gibson's new novel, The Peripheral. I won't discuss the book itself, but instead want to pause over »
Video killed the radio star
One of the personal experiments I'm considering in 2015 is a conscious movement away from video-based participation in open source communities. There are a number of »