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2025

23 Nov SitStand - Controlling My Standing Desk with Bluetooth
02 Jun Build Things That Don't Suck
30 Apr Cleaning AI Generated Text
23 Apr I Built a PLAYABLE Pixelboard with Tetris & Snake
25 Mar Dreaming of the impossible
10 Mar LLMs Writing Code
09 Feb GPT Software is Getting Really Good
09 Feb Will anyone read this blog post?
31 Jan QSBS: What every Startup Founder Should Know
28 Jan Investing in tools and process
25 Jan Restarting the Blog
25 Jan Simple Unit Round of Financing (SURFs)

2023

18 Dec Slow Down to Go Fast
11 Oct How does ChatGPT and LLMs work
14 Jun Predicting Startup Founder Success
17 Apr Thoughts on the AI Revolution
24 Mar Static Sites vs. CMS

2022

29 Nov Farewell Wordpress
21 Nov Stable Diffusion Explained
28 Sep Why Apple Can't Build Cars and Facebook can't build a Metaverse
19 Sep My First 50 Angel Investments
30 Jan The future of Music is NFT's

2021

24 Dec 2021 Roundup
08 Jul Joining Techstars
01 May Company Culture & Trouble in Basecamp
24 Apr Building a Command Line Application using GPT3
28 Mar I made an eInk newspaper
23 Feb CSS Still Sucks
02 Jan Startup Book Review

2020

31 Dec Discord Community
06 Nov Quickies
10 Oct Angel Investing
28 Sep Why Blogs Died
26 Aug Increase your creativity 60%
07 Aug Find Product Market Fit Fast
27 Jul GTP3 - Will AI replace programmers?
21 Jul GPT 3 Demo and Explanation
13 Jul Ideas Are Worthless
07 Jul Angel investors vs Venture Capitalists
27 Jun WWDC 2020
25 Jun Startup Metrics
20 Jun Hey, Apple!
15 Jun How to pitch VC's and Angels
08 Jun How much does it cost to build an app?
03 Jun Slack vs. Teams
01 Jun Raising too much money
16 May Why I became an Angel Investor
14 May Tello EDU 2020
08 May TAGMA is the new FAANG
25 Apr Floating "Sticky" video Player in Wordpress
23 Apr UI vs. UX
19 Apr Recession-Proof your Business
13 Apr Why is Zoom so popular?
02 Apr Making Masks at Home
01 Apr Apple's 2020 iPad Pro
22 Mar 3D Printed Mask
19 Mar Tesla MCU Upgrade
05 Mar How to start a company with no money
25 Feb Elon’s MasterClass in entrepreneurship
25 Feb Apple User Experience
12 Feb How to Sell Design
31 Jan How to negotiate a raise
27 Jan Tesla after two year
21 Jan Why Solar?
13 Jan Getting Good at Anything
07 Jan 40-hour “work” week
02 Jan Half Ideas
02 Jan Subscribe to Updates

2019

25 Nov 1/2 Ideas
09 Oct once more unto the breach

2018

2016

01 Nov Apple’s Magic Bar of Excellence
16 May The High Cost of App Development
06 May No more hamburger menus, introducing the hot dog menu
03 May Apple Watch Teardown
17 Apr Legibility and Readability
25 Feb Apple is Repeating Microsoft's Mistakes

2015

21 Oct The Future of Augmented and Virtual Reality
29 Jun Remember that time I emailed Steve Jobs?
30 Jan Levels of Leadership
15 Jan Happiness over UI, UX and features
05 Jan Better Goals via Better Systems

2014

2013

2012

18 Dec iOS VoiceOver Getting Started Guide
12 Aug Notification center redesign
21 Jun BlackBerry SDK's
03 May Smarter Keyboards
02 May Enter a title here
30 Apr Designing navigation - GitHub
28 Apr Web App vs Native App
20 Jan How to Create a Mobile App
16 Jan On my way to forgetting passwords

2011

2010

17 Dec Microsoft Spot Reborn
14 Dec Passwords Suck
06 Dec BlackBerry first impressions
28 Oct Apple Predictions
31 Aug Gravity and White board Markers
22 Aug Android on it's way to a 3.1 moment
27 Jul Visual TrackPad of tomorrow
06 Jul What's wrong with Android
14 May 9 Things I didn't know about the iPad
15 Mar Mobile On-Screen Keyboards
14 Mar Bad Standards
15 Feb Why the iPad will succeed and fail
24 Jan Apple's Tablet, Slate, Canvas, Taplet

2009

05 Dec Power Favorites for Twitter Pros
23 Nov Mobile Ergonomics for those with two thumbs
19 Nov Quick Calendar UI Review - Google
10 Nov 5 Email Problems not Solved by Google Wave
16 Oct Free iPhone Designer Icons
01 Oct Interface List Design - Drupal
15 Sep How NOT to write an NDA
08 Sep Apple's Secret
08 Aug Drupal User Experience
13 Jul Why the Chrome OS Matters
29 Apr Going Mobile - Giving users the finger
20 Mar iPhone 3.0 Announcment
16 Mar Boston iPhone Developer Meetup
12 Feb Kindle ReDesign
22 Jan Podcast Interview
17 Jan A better iPhone tip Calculator
09 Jan IPhone Application Design

2008

12 Dec Death to API's, Long live standards
09 Nov Iphone wireframe and interface toolkit
31 Oct Online Voting - The future of politics
16 Oct 19 Things Startups Can Do to Save Money
09 Oct Extended Off-Screen Keyboard
23 Sep Resolution Independent Computing
17 Sep Scrollbar UI and Search Results
14 Sep TechCrunch50 Roundup
03 Sep Google Chrome Browser Review
27 Aug Command Line Interfaces
26 Jul Iphone Clipboard Concept for Cut, Copy, Paste
23 Jul Gas icon
08 Jul Make it easy to navigate
30 Jun Twitter Scalability - Performance is user experience
24 Jun Powerpoint Wireframe Template for UI design
05 Jun Application design for mobile phones
22 May On Twitter
10 May Data and bandwidth are going to be free
07 May Mini-UPA 2008 - Not just about Usability
04 May A phone should be a phone
30 Apr Auto Tagging photos with existing meta-data
24 Apr Fortune 500 Logos
16 Apr Taxed To Death
11 Apr CSS Zen Garden of Dreams
08 Apr Photoshop can't Copy Paste into Word
04 Apr Using Excell as a Call List
02 Apr Photo Printing Prices Compared
31 Mar Boston Web Innovations Group this Wednesday
28 Mar The future of desktop Linux
22 Mar Getting Things Done Desktop Wallpaper
16 Mar Review - Remote Support with Crossloop
03 Mar Augmented Reality GPS
29 Feb Context Insensativity Training
25 Feb Firefox and Fonts
23 Feb Multi-touch audio application
22 Feb Gigapixel images
22 Jan Phone Menu Mistakes
14 Jan How to fix the voting machine problem in the US
09 Jan Review: UserTesting.com
08 Jan Top mistakes made creating tables of data and how to avoid them
04 Jan Web Start Menu

2007

21 Dec Web Design Acid Test - Is not what you think
24 Nov iPhone Discoveries
21 Nov Eink and Amazon Kindle
13 Nov The great diamond hunt of 2007
08 Nov World Usability Day 2007
04 Nov New Raizlabs Project
21 Oct On Wikipedias design (or lack thereof)
12 Oct My phone is my digital wallet
11 Oct What not to do, MsgBox edition
10 Oct Computational Photography
02 Oct iTip - A Tip Calculator for the iPhone
27 Sep Usability, Frustration and Delight
19 Sep How to meet - Fight club style
18 Sep Facebook, Myspace and Social Networks don't Matter
15 Sep 20 things the iPhone should do
13 Sep Testing IE6 on Vista Using Virtual PC
12 Sep Allow clients to accept credit cards
08 Sep Why IE isn't standards compliant
01 Sep A Social Network for Social Networks
29 Aug Netflix a User Experience away from the PC
28 Aug Charlie can't get on the T
27 Aug Misconceptions with SSL security
22 Aug Beyond SQL - Making things IQL
20 Aug Great Photo Quality - by Default
12 Aug JavaScript rubber band
09 Aug RIML - Reduced Instruction Markup Language
22 Jul This is the year of Linux! Not.
17 Jul It's the User Experience Stupid
12 Jul Apple Remembers the Colorblind
10 Jul Gmail Applications for Domains Review
06 Jul Say Hi to PicMe Photo Sharing
02 Jul iPhone Telephone Hyperlinks
28 Jun Threading Comments for Conversations
22 Jun Two Books in my head
20 Jun Linux Distributed Bug Tracker
08 Jun Weekend thoughts on open source development
05 Jun Web 3.0 to do list
30 May Upcoming talks, Ignite Boston & Desktop Linux 4
26 May Uncanny Valley of GUI doesn't exist
16 May Linux and Patents
13 May Digital Home Sweet Home
10 May Google War Games
09 May A/B testing Google's Redesign
30 Apr Anatomy of sharing
27 Apr Fitts law of mental clicking
25 Apr Designing for column width
18 Apr Things to Love & Hate about Vista
07 Apr Analog vs. Digital Dials
28 Mar Eat your own dog food
27 Mar Multitouch desktop keyboard
24 Mar Apple TV vs. Tivo
14 Mar Apple MacBook Switch Experience
06 Mar OpenID UI
28 Feb Microformat UI
27 Feb The computer is the TV
11 Feb Linux/Unix Case Sensitivity
07 Feb Mixed Apples with DRM
06 Feb 3D Photo Sharing Application - PicMe
03 Feb Greg's Head gets a haircut
23 Jan Job opening - Contract to perm Web Developer
20 Jan Stateless Computing - Application Hibernation

2006

28 Dec No more GetElementbyID
21 Dec Winter updates
23 Nov Reading Spam
22 Nov How much do we really see?
21 Nov When is a DVD not a DVD?
19 Nov Our relationship with computers
12 Nov Firefox for the Mac
06 Nov Building a better Digg Design
02 Nov Mac Blue-ish Screen of Death
30 Oct Electronic Voting Machines - Usability
30 Oct PDA With Dynamic Keyboard
24 Oct Rosie - Segway Style Concept
11 Oct User Interface Design for Software Developers - Update
04 Oct Fullscreen Google Video and YouTube
02 Oct More on the CSS sucking
27 Sep Open source government
25 Sep Ten reasons why CSS sucks
11 Sep The future of web-chrome
05 Sep Office + Firefox tabs
04 Sep Firefox Ribbon UI and Screen Space
01 Sep Office 2007 UI in Firefox
30 Aug Explorations in Firefox UI
15 Aug Factoring large numbers into primes with light
30 Jul Kitchen design
20 Jul How to design bad site for a great brand
06 Jul Uncommon controls
29 Jun Next Gen Web 2.0 still a few years away
29 Jun IE7 Beta 3
29 Jun Google GUI
21 Jun The power of a brand
14 Jun Contextual Spelling Gone Wrong
09 Jun AJAX Logo
07 Jun Office 2007 - I like it.
16 May Multpoint Touchpads
11 May Basic Etiquette Rules For Using Email
10 May Where is my missing cent?
10 May AOL Explorer doesn't suck
26 Apr Cellphone Radio Station
21 Apr The Universal Binary
20 Apr Why did Vista Slip?
16 Apr Driving on the left
07 Apr User Interface Forum
06 Apr Google - Second Base
31 Mar The dialog that launched a million Firefox downloads
31 Mar Linux Thoughts in Portland Continued
30 Mar Functional Images
28 Mar DRM - Dumb Recordable Media
27 Mar ABC Scrollbar Control
24 Mar Kiss my ARSS - That's asynchronous RSS
15 Mar Pimp my Software
07 Mar Acrobat Reloaded
05 Mar On simplicity
26 Feb Just Do It or Cancel
22 Feb Alphabet Soup
21 Feb Icon Overlap
14 Feb What the heck is a folksonomy?
13 Feb If the IRS was an electric company
10 Feb IE 7 PNG support
06 Feb IE7 Review
30 Jan Recovering a broken hard drive
22 Jan Office 12 Ribbon UI
15 Jan Dangerous Features
13 Jan Episode II - Desktop Wars - A new Mac
11 Jan Interactive Art
10 Jan AJAX and the Back button
09 Jan Quote of the week
03 Jan Group networked backup

2005

29 Dec Car Dashboard User Interface
27 Dec Email Folders vs. File Folder
22 Dec Richer Browser UI Thumbnails
14 Dec Searchable User Interface
12 Dec The Linux Attitude
08 Dec Twas the night before meltdown
06 Dec Email 2.0
04 Dec Pondering in Portland
26 Nov Apple's New Laptop
25 Nov Permission Denied - Dead end UI
20 Nov Linux Distributions
18 Nov Web Mashups - data hyperlinking
17 Nov Electronics should be silent
15 Nov Google Money
12 Nov Web Keyboard Accessibility
12 Nov All your Google data base are belong to us
11 Nov Productivity tip- check email less often
08 Nov Speed Bumps for my Mouse
07 Nov Cell Phone + Ipod Concept
04 Nov More on software installations
01 Nov Linux Thoughts
01 Nov API's to better UI
28 Oct World Usability Day - November 3rd
23 Oct Just 3 seconds left!
23 Oct Computer Hell
23 Oct UI-phemism
22 Oct RCN HD-DVR Sad
28 Sep Firefox interface first thoughts
28 Sep Coffee and Keyboards
28 Sep Ipod Nano First Thoughts
25 Sep Never Reboot my computer
24 Sep RCN discovers a new form of energy
20 Sep The big HD myth
15 Sep Telephone madness
15 Sep Software product cycle
12 Sep Ipod is a bathroom?
03 Sep Invention is the mother of invention
01 Sep AJAX for Software and Interface Designers
31 Aug Wires and Cable Design
30 Aug Screen Real Estate Prices are Dropping
26 Aug Rebranding XP
22 Aug Making Help more Helpful
17 Aug Swipe this! Bank Card Problems
16 Aug GoogleNet, more likely GoogleHosting
15 Aug 3D Interface Design for dummies
12 Aug Enable Callto links for Vonage phones
09 Aug Do you Telephone take this PC till death do you part?
07 Aug Next Step for Search Engines
05 Aug Multi-PC single user experience
03 Aug Creating Hierarchy
31 Jul TV 2.0 fix this idiot box
25 Jul Vod Casting - video on demand
21 Jul WYCSSINWYG - How I hate HTML and its ugly sister CSS
18 Jul Google's Web Browser
18 Jul U-turn, UI turn
13 Jul Faster Numerical Entry
11 Jul Art of Program Managment
11 Jul Why is making something simple so complex?
28 Jun Hypercasting Content
25 Jun Ipod power button
20 Jun Text size vs. Zoom
13 Jun Email 2.0
07 Jun Keyboard Shortcut Dictionary and Glossary CTRL, Shift, Alt, F1
25 May Spider Smoke Alarm Detector
06 May Recycle Bin
28 Apr Visual Command Line
15 Apr I miss you Active Desktop
13 Apr Don't punish the back button
06 Apr Google prediction part 2
15 Mar Zero, one and Many
13 Mar Cell phone as an extension of the PC
06 Mar USA 2.0
06 Mar Money Money Money
21 Feb I forgot my password please rob me
20 Feb My telephone is a PC
18 Feb Google maps prediction
13 Feb Tivo UI issues
10 Feb Ipod you pod we all pod
10 Feb Personal PC Server
06 Feb True Peer to Peer
06 Feb Starting a startup
04 Feb Layered Programming
04 Feb Go Tivo yourself
04 Feb Building blocks to big blocks
03 Feb One step design
03 Feb Reusable Energy
03 Feb Windows XP SP2 UI Critique
02 Feb Welcome to my blog