My musings on various topics.
I was working on a website and wanted to add a fun bit of flair by having the background rotate through a batch of images. So every time the website loaded it would have a different image. I did a little research, but none of the solutions were all that great. So I coded up…
Out with the old So with the new saw, I needed to update a few of the jigs I had. The first one I needed was a new crosscut sled. I couldn’t reuse the old sled for a few reasons, which I will describe in a bit. Now I can use standard accessories on the…
New Stacked Design Before I start any project I research what everyone else has done. I look through Youtube, Pinterest and do a few Google searches for what other builders had created for dust collection carts. For this project I wanted something super compact, moveable, and stable. I started by researching shop vacs, and dust…
The Old WorkBench My old workbench was frustrating me one day, so I started designing a new movable table saw workbench. The table surface was small, and the storage underneath was hard to use and limited. A small shelf underneath, and the top was only 24 inches deep. I was always trying to push parts…
Our Problem As UI Designers, UX Designers, and Web Developers our main goal is to provide the best experience possible to the users of our products. Sadly our first means of determining who this user is is their browser. Browsers lie and omit. Let us count the ways: Methods of Failure So here are the…
I hated the cluttered rear on this bike. So I cleared off the reflectors. I’m going to add lights down the road to increase the visibility.
I wanted to be able to quickly remove my passenger seat when I was riding solo.
I just acquired a 1999 Honda Shadow Aero, the VT1100C3. So far I love it.
I started to download Safari 5 for mac to see what it would offer when I discovered that Senior Jobs started forgetting usability… Oops.
Apple has this great site they just opened, touting the glories of web standards. Yee-haw I say, a publicly facing, corporate campaign to push web standards and tear down the failures of the past… Oops, I was wrong: