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Thoughts and ideas on technology, design, history, and food.

Human needs and the design process

Applying Maslow's heirarchy of needs to the design process

How the M1 Macs change how we should look at system configurations

You can’t fix something if you don’t break it. Apple introduced Macs with the Apple Silicon M1 system on a chip to the world at WWDC 2020 almost a year ago. Developers …

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. WordPress

The one which tells why I moved from WordPress to a Jekyll & then Hugo generated website

Building a Sustainable Brand

What is a sustainable brand? Obviously an attention to the environment is key, but what is sustainability from a brand and business perspective?

My first recommendation to WordPress is now live

7 years ago, I had reported an issue on WordPress.org.

A new year

Tonight 2016 ends. I don’t know if it was a good year or a bad year. I do believe it was a year with a lot of change. Change brought about for good (or for bad) as some may …

Stranger in a strange land

An unusual set of circumstances had me making some additions to my technology surroundings the last couple of days. My OS X computing serenity was disturbed by the need of running …

The dawn of the very vertical app

Note: many of the apps linked in this article are no longer available. As a result, I have removed those links.

A friend of mine on Facebook invited me to a FB page yesterday and …

A different story

I had an idea for a different kind of storytelling the other day. Maybe I was inspired by the buzzword of co-creation I keep throwing out in my day job. I wanted to try my hand at …

There's intent for that

Last week was an interesting week in the world of technology and gadgets. Google’s Android 5.1 started rolling out, bringing fixes and some new features to the popular mobile os. …