tech + web dev – Black Phoebe

A Verbal Eats Shoots Leaves Problem

In her 2003 book, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves“, Lynn Truss points out the problems of a lack of punctuation or too much punctuation in…

Tues. 05.19.20 – Construction continues around here. Or to keep up with yesterday’s metaphor, our 17 year old blog has decided on an outfit…

Mon. 05.18.20 – This blog recently celebrated its 17th birthday. Wahoo! And like all good 17 year olds, it has been experimenting with new…

Over the summer, Foursquare pivoted from a fun, game based location mobile app to a location based restaurant review app with the aim to…

Net Neutrality explained brilliantly by John Oliver on his new show, Last Week Tonight. Watch the video to both laugh and be educated on…

Thurs 01.09.14 – Sorry about the radio silence from blackphoebe.com in the last 24+ hours, but I am trying to set up a separate…

Test… Test… Test…. Trying to give folks more options: Comments: Is the comments from the last ten years. Disqus Comments: Is the new comments…

I like Javascript enough to work with it, write in it, and meet up for coffee/tea to hear how its life is going. But…

The lovely folk at Environments for Humans are hosting the 2nd Annual Responsive Web Design (online) Summit April 16-18, 2013. The great thing about…

Jenifer Hanen – A Minimalist’s Guide to the Mobile Web – BDConf, April 2012 from Breaking Development on Vimeo. Thurs 08.30.12 – The nice…

Thurs 07.19.12 – Yesterday my Nokia N950 dev testing phone decided to lose all charge after only 4 hours and I knew that it…

Today’s good news came at 1:16pm PDT when Marissa Mayer announced that she was leaving Google to join Yahoo as their new CEO. I…