Art, literature, and the network, since 2006. The Founder and Bob le flambeur. On the thoughtless practice of compassion. Failing to distinguish between a tractor trailer and the bright white sky. On self-driving cars, autonomy, and technological possibilities. The continuing adventures of the Render Ghosts in the city.

I founded information is beautiful. And a secret secret thing. On these topics at TED Global and 100 conferences and events worldwide.

es Art Director, Speaker, Writer. Toy is my middle name. I am a designer and art director who has a knack for solving big problems and leading teams. I enthusiastically come to the table with 10 years of crafting digital experiences that educate, delight, and rally people to action. Most recently I designed experiences at Twitter. Before that, I was the Design Director at Phase2. And a web designer at Viget Labs and Ogilvy. Web Conference at Penn State.

Machines, media and miscellanea by Kevin Carmody. Despite some initial misgivings, I really fell for Vagrant. Consistent repeatable develoment environments, whats not to love? Wed 18 Jun 2014. Slides from my talk on using Ansible to provision. At the West Midlands Ruby User Groups June meetup. IRC logs viewer using CouchDB and KnockoutJS. And youre chatting with the team. One of the major downside.

The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the. Yet how exactly do you do it if your site contains hundreds of pages, or even worse, hundreds of different templates? How can we use this knowledge to speed up the rendering of our web pages. Designing Web Interfaces For Kids.

Taking a new device API for a spin. TinySrc is now part of Sencha. Not a mobile web, merely a 320px-wide one. Mobile Analytics With Python, Django, ASP. NET, Java, and node.

Tom Hulme is design director at IDEO. Author, Design Thinker, Director of Transformation at Liquid Agency. Peter Merholz is the vice-president of global design at Groupon. Richard Seymour is a product designer. Hannah Donovan is the co-founder of This Is My Jam. Lisa Welchman is a web therapist. Kate Rutter is Co-Founder of LUXr.