I’m talking about the elements and principles of visual design tomorrow night at RefreshDC. You should come!

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Washington #ff0000 Skins

Bring back the Polar Vortex!

dummyimage.com was down for some time overnight. Whoops!

A user in total control is a design nightmare smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/16/…

“A big part of what we do is the combination between editorial instincts and technology.” – @mwilkie

“we are focused on building great technology that is valuable to us and to our readers.”

“If you leverage a 3rd party and you don’t control it you’re dependent on them to be as good or better at infrastructure than you are.”

“There used to be a question about whether we should use open source tools; these days no one questions using open source software.”

“BuzzFeed as a technology driven company; Technology is a first-class citizen; everyone sees that.”

This interview with @BuzzFeed’s CTO @mwilkie is fantastic medium.com/the-cto-series/an-int… Allow me to share some choice quotes…

For some reason I felt compelled to apply to speak at WordCamp San Francisco. That’s like this for WordPress geeks…

Not convinced of the impact of performance on traffic? This happened today on theguardian.com #perfmatters —

Tetris is a game about technical debt

Giraffe gaffe

“Hey, Steve, did you do that giraffe, tweet?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Well pack your stuff. You’re Ghana.”

“HAHAHAHA!”

“No really, you’re fired.”

Omfg brands.

We’re hiring a Data Architect @pewresearch If you’ve got code, DB and/or visualization chops, learn more here: pewrsr.ch/U2j2ai

Non-profit Form 990 disclosures are no longer available online, because the IRS won’t get their act together. bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/ter…

“If it’s supposed to act like a button, *it should be a button*”: accessibility tools in browsers don’t speak div – @joedolson #wcchi