I’ve always found Apple’s iOS User Interface ethos a bit odd. When you read Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines, it feels sparse. The HIG is supposed to be the complete documentation for designers and developers to ensure the quality of the apps on Apple’s platforms, but it ignores many common…

I love it when you find a small way to use technology to make something mundane a bit easier. Inputting a wifi password is a tiny annoyance that we’ve all had to deal now for quite a while. It’s likely you’ve mistyped many passwords in your life or just couldn’t…

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ― Henry David Thoreau We’re living in an increasingly nebulous and complicated world of digital security. There are few hard rules and there is…

“It takes a ridiculous amount of courage and humility to suck at something for a while.” — Merlin Mann, Back to Work, Episode 229: Shrimp in the Desert I love collecting quotes. Collecting them is kinda corny and maybe overly earnest, but some of the most important shifts in my…

“The easiest thing to do on earth is to not write.” — William Goldman There’s a phrase in software development when you’re starting a new project you push what’s called your “initial commit” to a repository. It’s usually just getting a project setup. It could be hundreds of lines of…

The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) is the largest Lutheran denomination in the world, and has its offices in Chicago. I have been able to work with them on a freelance basis many times basis and I always love my time getting to work with the ELCA. …

How do I even begin to explain this flyer? Well, first off, it was totally a roose. At the time of this flyer being printed, I had already proposed to my wife, and at the time of the party, we were already married — no one knew it though. It…