2011: This year I have…

My annual End of Year update. See previous years: 2010, 2009 and 2008.

Last year I said I’d:

  • Run another marathon.
  • Write some more.
  • Enjoy my new job and life in SF.

Well, I’ll score that a two out of three. Yes, I ran the marathon, but I stopped halfway (oh, the hills!); I didn’t really blog any more; but yes I enjoyed life in SF. Sometimes life makes things difficult, but my amazing wife and I got through it together.

We started the year in an empty apartment, sleeping on the floor, not knowing anyone in the city. By the end, I feel we’ve settled in and started to make friends.

This year I have: Continue reading

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News

I’m happy to announce the release of a project we’ve been working on for a while now: a new little human.

This project has turned out to be far more complicated than I ever imagined it could be, and so during development, my wife and I agreed to keep our news offline until the launch.

Now we’ve hit 1.0, and we’ve come to like the privacy. So we’re going to keep this one to ourselves, and enjoy ourselves without needing to overshare all the details all over Facebook and Twitter.

We’ve discovered a new respect for everyone who’s been through this development cycle before. Parents are heroes.

Let me know by email if you want to know more.

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The whole shebang

My colleagues have been amicably bickering, online and offline, about the use of hashbangs.

Ben Cherry explains that HashBangs are necessary, though not pretty, temporary workarounds to the lack of pushState support, which is part of the HTML5 spec.
http://www.adequatelygood.com/2011/2/Thoughts-on-the-Hashbang

Dan Webb explains that this temporary workaround goes against the fundamental rule that “cool URIs don’t change”, and that they are bad for the web in general.
http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs

When we discuss this sort of thing, we’re talking about the web in general, not about any Twitter pages, URLs, sites or strategy. Our personal sites are for personal opinions. Continue reading

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