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I recently signed up for a Highrise account because I already use Backpack and Basecamp on a daily basis and I find them quite useful.
It’s worth noting that Highrise is brand new from 37signals, so there’s some expectation of “not quite polished” going in. I manually added two contacts to Highrise a few days ago [...]

I’ve joined the HTML Working Group at the W3C as an Invited Expert. I contributed to the WHAT WG and its Web Applications 1.0 (AKA “HTML 5”) spec, so hopefully I’ll be able to help out with the W3C’s renewed effort to update the HTML spec.
Going in, my fears lie mostly in bureaucracy or FUD [...]

I’ve set up my site feed to redirect to FeedBurner, so excuse any feed wonkiness if you please. We’ll see if it’s worth it.
That didn’t last long. FeedBurner apparently forgot how to get updates from my site, so fell apart. I wasn’t too hopeful anyway — I like to keep things in house and under [...]

What is your online banking password? I have 10 to 1 odds that say it sucks. You should probably do something about that. If you like money, that is.

Alex King wrote a couple of posts [1, 2] on using password hashing software to abstract your passwords out of your head, ostensibly increasing the level of security involved with the web sites you entrust your information to.

Usually when starting a new web site, a company will design the site for use in only one language. As companies grow, however, it is often prudent to internationalize the site and make it accessible in many languages. If the site is to become a large commercial success in countries around the world, this step [...]

I’ve been reading a lot about design lately; specifically information architecture, interface design and industrial design. It seems that design comes in at a specific point in a given production process. In software, a developer is able to create a program, script or application that solves some specific problem; namely that of accomplishing some set [...]

I am frequently confronted by a dilemma while working on new projects — that is, writing new code and designing new architectures. The whole time I’m designing the architecture I think of how much better it could be solved for a more general case. There is a constant temptation to step back and [...]

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the popularization of useful techniques in any field, but the process by which this takes place has profound implications for the overall comprehension of knowledge and the quality of the products produced in that field. The explosion of attention toward the web applications arena was inevitable and has produced numerous [...]

Why?
The most relevant standards body for the internet, the W3C, has stated the purpose of the World Wide Web as, “a network of information resources. The Web relies on mechanisms to make these resources readily available to the widest possible audience.” Most important in that statement are the phrases “information resources”, “readily available”, and “widest [...]

Some books that I’ve read recently and recommend:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Why I am Not a Christian
Hackers and Painters
Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by [...]