Poster for ITC Garamond, Jack Summerford, 1979 My daughter Liz called me from college to recommend a book she had been assigned for a political science class: Mr. Truman's War by J. Robert Moskin, a non-fiction account of the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War. On Amazon, I learned it…

My kids were sick last week (nothing big—just the flu). This left me at home, lounging in my pajamas, doing little of anything. It turned out to be a surprisingly refreshing change of pace. After months of pushing the gas pedal hard, a couple of days of doing nothing felt pretty good. On day two of…

on_stage_dance: Pushups are one of my faves - for good reason! Great article RT @Danskin What you don't know about the push-up. http://ow.ly/3FSYu

Page speed and load times are the foundation for a positive user experience on the web. Let’s face it, if your page fails to load in time, all the effort put towards information architecture, content strategy and interaction design will be for naught. During my formative front-end coding days, I did…

Honey, I shrunk the pixels This is a question that has probably been debated at length by the great people building web standards and browsers, and it's very possible the real scope of the problem lays beyond my understanding. But, as a person building websites and observing technology evolve, I…