February 2024

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PDF Document Scanners

I’m still a Dropbox user, and a small feature I like on their mobile app is the Scan document option. You press the big blue + icon and it’s one of the options there. It opens the camera, you point it at a document and hold steady, and it takes a scan of the document. […]

Thoughts on a Global Design System

Dave and I just had Brad on ShopTalk Show to talk about his idea for a Global Design System. I love Brad’s optimism on all this. From Brad’s perspective, he’s seen, and helped build, the same set of components over and over over (and over) for design systems. On a very professional level! While design […]

Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is a political technique where voting districts are drawn to advantage one group over another. In practice, it looks incredibly silly. There are geographical districts that make no sense whatsover, snaking through territory with no other purpose than to bring power to some in-group. An example is an area having some large population of […]

NX on Prime

My favorite TV show, Northern Exposure (1990-1995) was entirely unavailable on any streaming service since streaming services existed. If you wanted to watch it, you had to get your hands on the DVDs. I totally have them. The first two seasons came in a little cute parka around the case, then they cheaped out and […]