September 29, 2015 — It was the summer of 2013 and I was working on a project for my employer, Box. I had just finished wiring up JSDoc as a nightly build using a plugin to detect T3 patterns in our code and document them automatically. It occurred to me that these patterns might be easy to get … Read More…

December 27, 2013 — A while back, I wrote a post about starting an open-source project. The focus of that article was on starting an open-source project as an individual. I received a lot of positive feedback and also some questions about how the process changes when you’re open-sourcing a … Read More…

January 3, 2013 — At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was both useful for end users and easy to modify. Neither of us had any experience … Read More…

October 25, 2012 — When I was studying computer science in college, I had one extremely tough professor. His name was Dr. Maxey and he taught the more complicated courses like data structures and computer architecture. He was a wonderful teacher with a talent for articulating difficult … Read More…

July 12, 2012 — It’s not actually old browsers that are holding back the web, it’s old ways of thinking about the Web that are holding back the Web. Nicholas C. Zakas explains why fixating on circumstances that you can’t change isn’t a recipe for success. Read More…