“A vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.”

Outside of the comic book world of Wolverine, Sabretooth and the Incredible Hulk, there’s no such thing as magic healing. If you get sliced, bruised or generally wounded, it takes us far longer to get back into fighting condition than our …

We have Sumac all over the place, and we need to eliminate it before it gets completely out of hand. This basically says we’ll spend 3 years poisoning it.

Five simple steps product designers can use to build better web apps.

A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript.

Long-lasting, well-rated iBeacons. Should be compatible with Beecon for automating things at home.

Manage, detect and range iBeacons around you. Create multiple regions and define actions that are triggered when you enter or leave them.

Joel Gascoigne: “A product manager must understand the customer’s situation better than the customer does” http://t.co/FS9WbE1n78 by @sjohnson717

When we look at an Apple Watch or some other Wearable device, we see an object of lust, a cool gadget. When the internet looks at that smartwatch or fitness tracker on your wrist, it sees another endpoint — an extension of itself. The …

In early September, in a clapboard house situated on 43 acres just outside a small town in northern Vermont, two boys awaken. They are brothers; the older is 12, the younger 9, and they rise to a day that has barely emerged from the …

In case you haven’t heard, doomsday is coming—more droughts, floods, famine, class warfare, entitled children, and, brace yourself: a bourbon shortage! Yes, traditional Kentucky distillers didn’t predict or prepare for this Mad Men-inspired …

You arrive at work. You sit down at your desk and you scan your inbox for potential disasters. Two mails pique your interest. You write brief responses to nudge the engineers in the right direction. Nothing else is urgent so you walk to the …

If you’re a late riser, there’s a good chance that you have, at one point, been made to feel inferior to the seeming moral superiority of your early riser friends and colleagues.

Ultra fast, for Modern Software Development Teams that love Continuous Delivery & Simplicity.

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Over time, my laziness spurred me to write a set of Git aliases that streamline this flow for me. In this post, I share these aliases and some tips on writing your own. These aliases start off simple, but they get more advanced near the …