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Miscellaneous
Kaizen, Maintenance, and the Freelance Web Developer
I first heard about Kaizen in a radio podcast called This American Life. Unlike most of my favourite podcasts, this had nothing to do with Web development, technology, or growing one’s own business. This episode was about a product, specifically the NUMMI, a car produced from a General Motors and Toyota joint venture that could …Continue reading
Resolutions for 2015
I seem to to have earned a reputation, amongst family members at least, as someone who makes resolutions. As far as I can remember there has only been a few years when I actually made resolutions and even fewer where I kept them. That said, I did write a post about it last year year …Continue reading
5 Tips for Making Fewer Unneeded Decisions
In the last few days I’ve read two articles and listened to a podcast about decision fatigue. Decision fatigue is based on the idea that there is a finite number of decisions that a person can make during the course of the day. The idea is that in this age of information overload, we are …Continue reading
Why bother with Semantics?
I learned web-design in the age of the W3C validator and used to think something terrible would happen if I launched a site using incorrect HTML. I had a Firefox extension that told if a site was valid or not and it horrified me when other sites didn’t get at least 2 of 3 checkmarks. …Continue reading
New Year’s resolutions for 2014
Why make resolutions in the first place when they are inevitably broken by mid-March? Some of our age-old practices have their roots in superstition, some in religion.One of the strong points of Catholicism, for one, is the ability to start again with a clean slate. I’m not sure if there are ties between resolutions and …Continue reading