Brian Drinks Java: Chromatic Coffee
Everything old is new again, and that includes Chromatic Coffee in Santa Clara, California. Formerly Barefoot Coffee, longtime visitors were surprised by th...
How Twitter Ruined Their API And What They Can Do To Fix It
During the question and answer section of the panel I recently spoke on at DCWeek 2012, one questioner asked the panel to describe an API that had “disappoin...
Win, Lose, Banana – The Best $1 You’ve Ever Spent
Little pockets of downtime pepper our lives: waiting for the bus, waiting at a crosswalk, waiting for that one person in the group to come back from the bat...
The One API You Should Know
I had the opportunity to speak on a panel at DCWeek 2012 this past week: “Five Crucial APIs to Know About”. (I am not listed on the speakers page, as I was a...
Mike Daisey’s Program From April 14, 2011
I don’t have anything to say publicly about Mike Daisey’s lies. What I will say publicly is that Heather and I saw The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at...
The Steve Jobs Book Pissed Me Off
I have always had a thing for books. I started reading when I was a kid, and I never stopped. I oscillate regularly between fiction and nonfiction, binging ...
How To Bypass Wikipedia’s Stupid SOPA Blackout
So if you’ve been to Wikipedia at all today, you have no doubt noticed that instead of your desired web page, you’re instead being shown a big, black page d...