Monthly Archives: September 2011

What Really Motivates Us

Dan Pink’s talk at RSA presents some really interesting ideas about what really motivates people to work. Contrary to popular opinion among management, mainstream studies reveal that people don’t really care about making more money, as long as they have enough to meet their basic needs. What really drives us is mastering our craft, having autonomy […]

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Re-Abolish Slavery Ribbon

I just released a new WordPress plugin into the repository that raises awareness about modern-day slavery by adding a “Re-Abolish Slavery” ribbon to WordPress sites. It’s running on this site, so  you can see a live example by looking in the upper-right hand corner. The ribbon links to the Not For Sale campaign, which is […]

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Preventing Sites From Opening New Tabs/Windows

UPDATE: There’s now a Chrome extension called TheOne which does this, so you don’t need to create your own user script.   I wrote earlier about why it’s wrong for websites to force links to open in a new tab or window,  but it’ll probably be at least a few years before the majority of […]

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My First Shot at Adaptive Images

One of the first problems you run into when trying to build an adaptive layout is that images, unlike blocks of text, have fixed widths. Ideally we want to use small images on small screens and full sized ones on larger screens. The browser can resize the image on the fly, but the two problems […]

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