Hi, I’m Chris, a web craftsman making things like Mapalong & Brooklyn Beta with my friends at Analog.
A few months ago, I wrote about learning JavaScript. I'm already pretty comfortable with the language, and although I did break the chain, I'm happy to report that I'm still at it. Never stop learning, right? In case it's helpful to others, I thought …
Brooklyn Beta is becoming more than a conference. It's still a conference, too, and although I never did recap last year's conference like I wanted to, I did collect a bunch of posts, photos, and videos on Gimme Bar. Also, Nate Bolt and Captain & …
I just read a post by Daniel Howells about these two stories on Hacker News: Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis Codename: Obtvse Before I make my small point, let me give you the quick synopsis. Briefly, Dustin Curtis made his own blogg…
I love blogs. A year ago today, I tried to start a sort of blogging revival. To my great surprise and delight, it kinda worked. For a while, I could find really interesting stuff to read every day by just browsing through my planet or #ideasofmarch on Tw…
Hacker News exploded yesterday with news of GitHub being hacked. Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I began with GitHub's side of the story: A GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his p…
Thanks to reader Steve Gricci, I have learned that BackTweets no longer exists, presumably because BackType was acquired by Twitter. (Regardless, why let the domain expire?) Until today, I have been using BackTweets for the "tweets" link at the top of ea…
If you're going to be in or around Boston tomorrow (Wednesday) night, I hope you'll join me at the Microsoft NERD Center, where I'll be giving my first talk in more than a year and a half. I'm going to be speaking about the science of human behavior a…
One of my goals this year is to acquire new skills, so I've decided to start by learning JavaScript. As was the case when I learned HTML and CSS, it's a tricky endeavor, because I'm not exactly a beginner, and most stuff is geared toward beginners, which…
A new year begins, so for the ninth year in a row, I'm taking a moment to record, reflect, assess, and aim. Last year, I described 2010 as a landmark year, and it was. Analog, Mild Bunch, Brooklyn Beta, Mapalong, and PHP Advent. Even without factoring…
