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Welcome to Thudfactor

The view of Graybeard Mountain in North Carolina from the Blue Ridge Parkway, September 2002. It was a little overcast. Image credit: John Williams

For now you probably want the blog archives, but maybe you would like to know who I am. The RSS feed is only marginally less attractive.

Closeup of a Mochamaster coffee pot with coffee and condensation in it

Agile’s insistence on co-location is disabling

Does “face to face” communication require our bodies to be in the same space, too?

Banner that reads We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.

Think twice before using your hammer to drive screws

Sometimes developers will solve problems with the handy tool, not the right tool, just because it seems like less work. It's probably not.

A very life-like sculpture of a security officer.

The Regrettable State of Cross-Browser Testing

Update-by-default has pushed the platform forward, but has also put browser testing out of reach for many

A fortune from a fortune cookie, which reads Be content with your lot, one cannot be first in everything.

Uptake of the new CSS seems slow. Why?

There’s so much great new stuff in CSS, some of it with extraordinary support. Why aren’t people leaping on it?

A sunny day at Pandapas pond, with the bright blue sky and scattered clouds reflected perfectly in the water.

Adventures in VIM part 2

The continuing story of migrating my brain from VSCode to vim

A weathered pier stretches out across a calm water in an overcast sky.

Adventures in VIM part 1

Some thoughts on the first view days using neovim

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