jakob’s law of internet user experience

2019-10-02

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~1 min read

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126 words

Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group, a consulting firm focused on user-experience, has what I think is a pretty profound observation…

validating social security numbers

2019-10-01

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~2 min read

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375 words

I continue to be enamored with the power of regular expressions — a feeling that only grows the more I understand them. Today, for example…

showing up: the nytimes editorial board

2019-09-30

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~2 min read

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215 words

The most striking aspect of the New York Times’ Editorial Board’s recent opinion, “Why the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Is the Only Option” was…

an unremarkable achievement: accomplishing goals through steady progress

2019-09-29

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~4 min read

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724 words

Yesterday I accomplished a goal I’d been working toward for close to three months: I swam an uninterrupted 200m freestyle. It wasn’t special…

web-safe fonts and font fallbacks

2019-09-28

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~3 min read

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412 words

Today, I had a colleague mention that the font we are using is “web-safe” in response to why it was so weird that it wasn’t showing up…

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