Category: Featured

  • The Open Web

    The Open Web

    The most powerful aspect of the Internet is the open web. From the very beginning, there has been a conflict with on one side walled gardens and closed networks with open standards and interoperability on the other. My first experience with an online world was dial-up into AOL and exploring their internal experiences. Only rarely…

  • 40 Days with Food Allergies

    40 Days with Food Allergies

    Following your kid’s allergies for Lent isn’t as easy as I thought.

  • Food Allergies Aren’t From Bad Parenting

    Food Allergies Aren’t From Bad Parenting

    Source: How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves This missive from the parents of 12 kids is, all in all, a very interesting roadmap for raising a family, but I reject one particular portion. We did not have snacks between meals. We always had the four food groups…

  • Back to Windows

    For nearly four years, I’ve used Macs and OS X professionally. Most of the company and the industry uses Mac and all seemed fine in the world. At Automattic, we update our hardware every 18 months, which I deferred for six months waiting for the new MacBook Pro update. I was underwhelmed by the updates.…

  • Gratitude

    Over the weekend, Olivia went to the hospital. Like her previous hospital admit, she had an asthma attack at home we couldn’t get under control so we went to Dell Children’s Medical Center’s ER. Like last time, she needed to more medicine than we could administer to her at home so she was admitted. Four…

  • I Am A Core Contributor

    I Am A Core Contributor

    Impostor syndrome. It’s a bitch. If you’re not familiar, impostor syndrome is used freely as the in-vogue way of describing the feeling that you’re an impostor. Somehow, someone made a mistake when they hired you, picked you to lead a project, promoted you, describe you as an “expert” or something else like that. If they really…