Today Google announced that they are closing down Google+, their social network. Naturally this elicited three sorts of reactions: the "oh no!" of frequent users, the "people still use G+" of non-fans, and the puzzlement of folks for whom G+ never caught on. Google+ was Google's attempt at making a …

Checking in for September for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Writing more / designing more: Been working on the editing pass of "The Mediocre Programmer". Haven't been doing much in the realm of designing, or in the …

There's a story going around the net about how CBS is being awful to a group of fans. The folks at Stage 9 created a virtual tour of the Enterprise D in startling detail. I saw videos of this project and was stunned at the level of accuracy they put …

Ugh.

I've hit a wall with this challenge. Part of it is my expectations that I would be further along. I thought that I would be further in the book where the challenges start to get more interesting. Unfortunately I'm still near the beginning pieces of the book so I'm …

I've been making a pretty good clip through Eloquent JavaScript but this weekend I didn't make any progress in the book outside of a little bit of reading here and there. I was hoping that Saturday would have been just one day but it looks like I extended that to …