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.
A fantasy football bot with a point of view. How I built the character, kept the scores separate from the jokes, and learned from the people arguing with him.
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.