New release of gen

I’ve a new release of gen, the generics-like tool for Go. It includes API changes so I suggest reading the changelog...

Another reason publishers should adopt SSL: referrers

I previously mentioned that advertising-based publishers should embrace SSL as a product upgrade, a service to their customer...

Publishers and SSL

Here’s a good article about why news sites on the web are slow to embrace SSL...

Multi-credentialing

John Maeda of RISD has a riff about the future of college credentials, including the notion of an automated ‘degree’, which is generated by a machine based on the sum your achievements...

Progress bars cannot be accurate

We all see progress bars and some of us even implement them. And we’ve all seen how hilariously wrong they can be...

Your site doesn’t need a novel progress indicator

There’s been healthy talk about progress indicators in the age of ajax. In our will-to-design I think some things are being missed...

Language and social signaling

I like language. I came to it causally at first, and more formally of late...

1.6% of what?

The NSA has published a paper claiming that it “touches” only 1.6% of Internet traffic...

Incidence of compulsion

This is an encouraging story about Google exploring the ability to encrypt ‘sitting files’ in their Google Drive product...

Epistemology and human factors: deal with ‘em

This study that Google conducted to find predictors for success in their hiring process is very interesting...