October 2013

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Spam

There is a person somewhere in the world whose job it is to create an account on CodePen and create a bunch of spam Pens (we call a demo that you build on CodePen with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript a “Pen”). They look like “landing pages” full of cheesy stock photography, keyword ridden text, and […]

Evolution of Social Media

Blogs were the first round of social media on the web. Medium length writing with links and images and such. Then we got Facebook. We still write, but it’s shorter and doesn’t have the complexities of running a blog. Then Twitter, just 140 characters of text. Even simpler, but you still have to write. Then […]

On Deleting Code

It doesn’t take very long on a project to get to the point where deleting code feels better than writing it. Sometimes it means you found a better way to do it that requires less code. Sometimes it means you discovered a way to re-use some code from elsewhere in the project. That’s exciting because […]