Ideas, experiments.
A few things learned.
On making useful things for the web, giving them a little personality, and the decisions along the way.
The answer is on Basecamp.
What I built after The Gaffer: a Slack bot that finds everyday information in Basecamp and brings back an answer, the context and a link to its source.
The Gaffer has entered the chat.
We wanted a bot to post the fantasy football scores each week. It turned into The Gaffer: a Slack regular with opinions on our captain choices and a memory for things we’d rather forget.
A better eye for the pages you build.
Why I’m making free, practical design courses for developers. Small changes, visible results and room to experiment, from visual hierarchy to motion.
Giving a WordPress page a better starting point.
Why I built a library of editable WordPress sections, and why the next person changing the page matters as much as the first.