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Pixel Prostitution

 April.17th.2008 • 12:33PM 24 Comments

This is the story of a guy who saw a good friend of his post about clients on Twitter. The messages hit a chord with him, but didn’t think his answer (or subsequent “advice”) would fit within 140 characters. We now commence with the ranting.

My good friend Croftie posted this this morning (links to individual tweets are in the footnotes):

Ever had a client take your design, “rework it” and send it back to you so you can do the rest of the site their way? How did you handle it?1 I don’t want to be someone’s pixel prostitute. If they want to push my pixels around, they can do it themselves, after I’m done.2 My job is to give them the best possible solution I can come up with. They don’t have to use it if ...

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The Future Browser Manifesto

 April.1st.2008 • 12:00AM 18 Comments

This is the story of a guy who wants a better web, a guy that wants a web where the only limits are people’s creativity. It is time to move on. It is time to believe in the future1. Maybe… it’s time to laugh? Look at the date silly people.

My fellow designers, developers and general web aficionados; we are embarking on an incredible journey, one that in the future will be looked at as a necessary step towards the growth of our industry as a whole. We are seeing new strides in design, new experiments in bringing rich interactivity to our world and new minds joining the fight on a daily basis. It is truly a wonderful time to be working in this industry and it’s only going to get better.

Two-thousand, four-hundred and ten (2410) days ago, Internet Explorer 6 was placed into our collective lap ...

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Am I Condemning Myself?

 May.6th.2006 • 12:25PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his friend. His friend ran into a situation where a few people didn’t approve of what she wrote in her journal. Said friend is subsequently fired from her job because of it. The guy then looks at how his blogging career could be condemning him.

I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, and it’s sort of a weird situation that’s causing me to write this.

Let me start off by saying that one of my good friends from Rhode Island was recently “dooced” (if I may use the word), before she even began her summer internship. I’m left with this feeling of anger after reading her thoughts about it, but yet, it’s an o-so-familiar story that so many people have been through. We’ve been told about this over and over again to not post personal ...

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I Want My Life Back

 October.13th.2005 • 10:23AM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and browsers. They hate him, he hates them. Nothing additional can really be said without spilling blood.

I can’t tell you how long I’ve been battling browser compatibility bugs, but it wasn’t until one of my first clients stressed that his site needed to work in IE6 and NN4 when I truly opened my eyes to this dark side of our world. I’m sitting here laughing at myself because it took me a few all-nighters to find the non-existent documentation on how this thing called the box model was messed up. Thanks for that, Steve. I wasted 2 days of my life on just fixing browser bugs.

But what doesn’t kill ...

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