Design & Dev

At some point, I stopped knowing what was on my Mac. A tool here, a dependency my agent dropped in there. Collectively, a mystery. I was losing track. To help, I created stockpile.

Everyone's building custom skills for their AI coding assistants right now. Commit helpers, linting rules, project scaffolding. Little markdown files that make Claude Code do things your way instead of the default way. I've been doing the same thing. But the more skills I wrote, the more I wanted them to follow me between machines…

I had done everything right. Or at least, everything the current playbook says to do. Used AI to fill the gaps, reviewed it myself, then handed it off to more AI.

In software, a dependency is a risk you accept. It's a package you didn't write, maintained by someone you've never met, that can break your entire application if it disappears. Good engineering means knowing which dependencies are worth the risk and which ones aren't. Right now, I'm watching our industry decide that people aren't worth…

Satya Nadella said AI would fuel a "creative revolution." GitHub told us Copilot would let developers "focus on creative and strategic work." Sam Altman measures ChatGPT's success by the percentage of human work it can accomplish. So why am I spending more time reviewing and fixing AI output than I ever imagined?

Lately, I've been questioning one of the more beloved words in our industry: "craft." It shows everywhere - in portfolios, product copy, and job listings. But is it helping us describe what we do? I think craft might be the wrong fit for modern design and development.

Ok ok, I know what you're thinking. You still use Dreamweaver!? The quick answer is: I use the tool that fits the job when I need it. So yes sometimes!

Since the introduction of Responsive web design, it's irked me that my site didn't look appropriate on different devices and screen sizes. While I know that browsing the web on a mobile device is growing like crazy, it has been a while since I've spent any time working on my own site. I'm happy to…

I ran into an issue recently where I wanted to use anchors to jump to different sections within a long web page. The problem was every time I clicked the page would jump, but a fixed header would cover part of each section's content.