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Ravens are smart animals, probably much smarter than we really know. If they knew about the stupid shit we were doing to build the internet they'd definitely peck out the keys of every keyboard in existence.

Reading Time: 15 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views expressed

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Anyone who writes on a regular basis experiences at least one existential crisis

Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 2023 where servers are cheap and platforms are free, it’s ridiculously easy for anyone to set up a blog and start flinging words at the web. You can become a “blogger” in the time it takes for Starbucks to make your low-fat half soy milk decaf mocha cherry mint latte frappuccino. There’s no one

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I am a Screenshare, not a Phishing Vector

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s 2021. We’re somewhere between one and thirteen years into the pandemic. Time isn’t really relevant any more, but what is relevant is what the hell is going on in your Zoom / Slack / Teams / Skype / Google Meets screensharing session. I’ve worked remotely for a decade, as have many of my colleagues.

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Reading Time: 7 minutesI usually write about front-end things or CMS things or node.js things. Sometimes a little of all three. This is about all of those things at once. And it’s about how I think that, sometimes, enterprises are fucking dumb. Note: The views expressed in here are not those of my employer. They are the views

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Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been working for the last month or two on some super cool mobile templates for a client. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we’ve pulled out all of the awesome for this. If Tridion were a person, it would be peeing its kilt with excitement every day — even though it definitely isn’t wearing