Mark Downie - PoppaString

November 19, 2016
4 min read

Trying to imagine objects in more than three dimensions can feel like an exercise in futility. The most straightforward ...

November 10, 2016
7 min read

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, and it represents Google's attempt to radically improve the speed and ...

November 02, 2016
3 min read

I have been wanting to revisit some design patterns for a while, this has been more urgent recently as my posts have ...

November 01, 2016
3 min read

A few months back I had some creative energy to burn and so I started looking for an open source project to contribute ...

October 25, 2016
3 min read

I have several posts now that have made the case that our implicit bias seeps into our software in playful, harmful, ...

October 12, 2016
5 min read

One of the problems I have in my field is that it is sometimes difficult to produce clear unassailable facts, for ...

October 04, 2016
5 min read

I have been using the Microsoft Groove ecosystem for a long time now, back when we used to call it Zune and it we had ...

September 24, 2016
3 min read

I have been watching with morbid fascination the release of information related to the Yahoo breach that may have ...

September 12, 2016
6 min read

I was recently the victim of a hack on my site, it was quite disarming to realize I was out maneuvered on a platform ...