I have this t-shirt. It reads: “Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil.” Because if we take those two first popular truisms and put them together, we get a very unpopular conclusion.
The truisms of our business are “It’s an attention economy, where revenue is driven by how much attention you can get,” and [...]
While visiting with friends and family this weekend, I ran into a long-missed flame who said she was frustrated because she’d gone back to school to renew her web design business, last heard from about a decade ago, but the school seemed insistent about teaching her programming instead. Her head was full of PHP [...]
I don’t know if this is a common phenomenon. I’ve spoken with a lot of artists who swear by their Wacoms and don’t ever work on anything else at all, but I’ve found that while my Wacom Bamboo is good for some things, when it comes to rapid design I’m much happier tossing off sheet [...]
This is not my politics blog, but I still gotta link to Fafnir:
13 Jul
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat
What he said.
More to come.
“If I just knew HTML, I could make a trunkload of money!”
10 Jun
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat, web development
I’d gone to Borders Books find myself a copy of the Ruby Pocket Reference. I’ve long liked having paper books for some things; I don’t need the tactility of paper for fiction, but for reference it’s absolutely critical, especially when I’ve reached the point of having so many tabs open on the browser that I’ve [...]
