You ask, "Should I be making a new directory for this feature I'm building?" You expect a return value of: "yes" or "no." You had a 50% chance of guessing the "correct" answer...right? Four hours, 49 messages, 13 participants (4 whom you've never met?) later, you have not a boolean but instead something rather undefined: "What makes a feature a...

At work, I like to observe who: requests v. demands is direct v. is indirect responds v. ignores The data reveals a lot about how people wield power, especially subconsciously. Requests are often, “when you get a chance, could you please do X? I would like it by Z date.” Demands are, “you need to do X by Z date.” But it gets more complicated:...

If you drive and have had to parallel park, you might have encountered a situation where you could have parked somewhere if that Prius just had pulled up a bit or split the difference better. If you're even-tempered, you drove around the block and found another spot. If you're easy to temper, you might have cursed under your breath—or maybe, just maybe—you...

Hyperaware of how annoying it is when you want a recipe and have to read a 20-paragraph story about someone's great gran (and feeling bad you don't care), I have provided a skip link if you don't care about my back story to this post. Context for this post 📌 My partner and I were watching TV and he said, "Oh, the closed captions are off. Do you want...

I recognise that my pre code needs a lot of work, so the code samples are difficult to read and ugly right now. I plan to update that code. Apologies in the meantime; hopefully the message is still understandable! Animations help to breathe life into interactive experiences. Animations, especially when overused and abused, can make people very...

This week, I saw a lot of judgment over people joining Facebook's team. In case you missed it, Facebook subverts democracy, mistreats its human moderators, and if those aren't enough, there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to the harm it conducts. A lot of the judgment I saw was for Black women, specifically Kristy Tillman, whom I admire very...