Some writing is persuasive; it aims to cause you to believe or do something. Some is expository; it aims to cause you to understand something. A lot of tech writing is persuasive or expository. Some …

From yesterday's JavaScript explorations: "I have now discovered that element.innerText works in Chrome and in Epiphany but not in Firefox." "This is why you use jQuery." And now I do! My "presidential" "speech" generator is …

Improving your project's hospitality. And Angela Byron on hospitality in "The story of my first DrupalCon". An October 26th tweet: "We only solve the problems that cause us pain. That's why design thinking starts with …

When part of the joy of a place is that gender doesn't matter, it's hard to write about that joy, because calling attention to gender is the opposite of that. I want to illustrate this …

On New Year's Day a few years ago, I went on a long train trip next to a white guy in his fifties who'd lived his whole life in South Carolina. As we talked, I …

On Sunday I wrote my first Twitter bot, with a bit of help from Leonard. (A Hacker School colleague inferred, understandably, that Leonard and I just write Twitter bots on the weekend, to relax.) Then …

Congratulations to all six of the Wikimedia's chosen participants in the current round of FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships. I'm especially glad I was able to help Maria Pacana and Be Birchall, my colleagues …

I am working on another silly project, and it led me to look at winners and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. There are way more colons in the titles of those books …

I hereby recommend to you the super-readable, witty, on-point analysis of cosmetics ad claims at "Brightest Bulb In the Box: Beauty for Critical Minds". Much thanks to terriko for the link to BBItB! If you …

Check out this Vienna Teng live set in which she performs a synth-backed "Whatever You Want." I'm just entranced and have been listening to the set over and over. I especially find myself caught by …