This author's blog posts

• My productivity system

  August 3, 2024

  An index card and some simple rules that keep me going

  

• Things I keep repeating in meetings

  July 4, 2024

  When you find yourself part of a big corporation

  

• Quick pontoon rant

  July 9, 2023

  The number of pontoons does not change the name.

  

• Day Five

  June 18, 2023

  He says I'm getting better.

  

• Sass considered harmful

  June 3, 2023

  CSS preprocessors had a lot of promises but not a lot of delivery. It is time to dump them.

  

• 3 years of Solve it once

  May 24, 2023

  A few easy things you can do to support Brad, just this once.

  

• Coming soon

  April 10, 2023

  Commitment to blog more

  

• Development Favicon

  February 5, 2014

  A neat browser extension I made

  

• Flextures

  December 28, 2012

  Really wanna twist a phone

  

• Why Are We CSS-ing All Stupid?

  December 27, 2012

  Unfinished draft I really wanted to publish

  

• Your Fast Catalog

  March 16, 2012

  Oddly-specific WebPAC tweaks

  

• Drupal and Git

  December 9, 2011

  A presentation that made me locally infamous

  

• Whiteboard Backlog

  June 25, 2011

  Drawings all over the walls of my apartment

  

• A Year of Transliteracy: Call to Action

  May 31, 2011

  Putting transliteracy behind me

  

• Another Responsive Data Tables Approach

  April 27, 2011

  Little Bobby Tables strikes again

  

• Personal Transparency

  April 18, 2011

  Bradleaks: a document dump

  

• Matters of Media

  March 30, 2011

  Making Claude Shannon spin in his grave

  

• Resist That Advice

  March 3, 2011

  Redesign early and often?

  

• IL Communication

  December 30, 2010

  Just one literacy was not enough criticism for one Brad

  

• Languages of a Blueberry Smoothie

  December 27, 2010

  Still trying to bring folks around to my pedantry

  

• My First Chrome 48

  December 19, 2010

  Early review of a free Chromebook

  

• LibraryThing Issues

  December 11, 2010

  Early versions of a catalog app were nightmarish

  

• Further Refining Transliteracy

  December 5, 2010

  More long-winded talk that nobody cares about now

  

• Redefining Transliteracy

  November 12, 2010

  Exposition of the correct transliteracy definition

  

• Both Have Good Points

  September 30, 2010

  Summarizing a twitter debate about the digital divide

  

• iOS 4 Graph Paper Wallpaper

  June 23, 2010

  Free, simple wallpaper

  

• Drupal is the Answer

  June 23, 2010

  Presenter notes for a Drupal presentation

  

• Speaking the Same Language

  June 18, 2010

  Far more depth into transliteracy

  

• Practically Mobile

  June 12, 2010

  Check out this early RWD post!

  

• His name is Miles, get it?

  June 12, 2010

  Memes! Get your memes here!

  

• On Transliteracy

  May 31, 2010

  The beginning of a series of correct-but-underappreciated screeds

  

• CSS is Syntactically Inconsistent

  May 27, 2009

  Pseudo this, pseudo that

  

• iPhone alarm clock improvements

  January 17, 2009

  Perhaps my best idea

  

• Google Chatback Badge Improvements

  January 14, 2009

  Deprecated chat widget

  

• Skeptical about this one

  January 7, 2009

  An encyclopedia beyond belief

  

• Encyclopedia of Censorship

  January 7, 2009

  [Redacted]

  

• Week 2 — Encyclopedia by Letters

  January 5, 2009

  Reading a bunch of articles and listing them

  

• 52for2009 #1 — Turk for 2 hours a day

  January 2, 2009

  This was a fun idea for a new years resolution

  

• Recipe before I make it #1- MexItalian Burger

  May 24, 2008

  This turned out great! Red Robin eat your heart out

  

• For the Cultural Lexicon

  April 24, 2008

  I starchive my gmail all the time. Inbox zero, baby!

  

• meta rock

  March 22, 2008

  I miss old-school ze frank

  

• Those Canadians!

  March 18, 2008

  Please let me become a citizen, Canada.

  

• Help me with my resume

  March 9, 2008

  First draft of my online resume. It had wood grain.

  

• Context in the Future

  March 6, 2008

  Desiring siloes right before siloes became pervasive

  

• Stuff about sleep

  March 2, 2008

  Instead of Westworld we got Little Caesars Arena

  

• Observations

  February 29, 2008

  Took an unexpected swipe at Orlando Bloom

  

• Lose the MeeboMe Gadget

  February 26, 2008

  Strong opinion from the age of Flash.

  

• Is it Opposite Day?

  February 15, 2008

  Gimmick site I ran for a while

  

• Valentine Commercialism

  February 9, 2008

  Pink electronics are for people who like the color pink.

  

• Oh Dear

  February 4, 2008

  Racism is racism.

  

• Patrons in their Natural Habitat

  January 29, 2008

  Library meta humor.

  

• Only Upgrade?

  January 28, 2008

  I think this counts as a tweet.

  

• People are making pretty themes!

  January 22, 2008

  Gone themes from defunct tools.

  

• An Alternative Interpretation

  January 22, 2008

  Silly Beatles thing.

  

• More Theme-y Stuff

  January 20, 2008

  Example theme for a defunct tool for a defunct tool.

  

• iGoogle Theme Maker!

  January 19, 2008

  A cool, dead project for a defunct Google homepage.

  

• The Trouble with Charity

  January 17, 2008

  An opinion I've since outgrown.

  

• Keep Reading!

  January 17, 2008

  Andrew Keen's arguments become weaker over time.

  

• Stop Reading!

  January 14, 2008

  Why read when you can skim and pretend?

  

• Six Pack

  January 13, 2008

  Peyton Manning telling it like it is.

  

• How to Live

  January 12, 2008

  Simple two-step process.

  

• Gmail hacks

  January 12, 2008

  Forwarding and send as instructions for Wayne State LIS students in 2008.

  

• Simple Productivity Hack

  January 9, 2008

  A Google Alerts trick from back in the day.

  

• Is this a coincidence?

  January 8, 2008

  Sometimes we don't hurt just the ones we love.

  

• Sports Night

  January 1, 2008

  Quotes from one of my favorite shows.

  

• General Update

  December 29, 2007

  A Brad post, going into 2008.

  

• Post To Blog Gadget

  December 24, 2007

  For all the iGoogle users out there.

  

• The History and Art of the Video Power Hour

  November 23, 2007

  Notes on an obscure hobby.

  

• Play the 'House' Home game!

  November 1, 2007

  The best in 2007-Google-Doc-based entertainment.

  

• The Future

  October 29, 2007

  Postdictions about the first iPhone.

  

• Useless Halloween Predictions

  September 22, 2007

  Made one of these costume predictions a reality.

  

• Librarian updates

  September 8, 2007

  Progress on the Facebook Librarian app.

  

• Something to consider

  August 31, 2007

  Prejudging the visuals for Speed Racer.

  

• A No-brainer

  August 24, 2007

  Brad being wrong about OBL.

  

• And the other half-completed projects…

  August 21, 2007

  Stuff I was working on in August 2007

  

• What Browsers do (that they shouldn't)

  August 13, 2007

  A slice of browser history.

  

• Some Predictions

  August 4, 2007

  Young Brad being stupid about energy

  

• Energy

  August 4, 2007

  The most important point to ponder.

  

• An implication for geeks

  August 4, 2007

  I think Freeman Dyson was dead wrong

  

• A Hint at the Future

  July 24, 2007

  I don't want to be one of those sporadic bloggers that apologize whenever they go a while without posting

  

• Things that interest me

  July 12, 2007

  Two seemingly-small concepts that caught my eye.

  

• The Best Thing since a Better Mousetrap

  July 5, 2007

  Four days into the app, and the plans are coming together.

  

• Una Dia

  July 4, 2007

  Reflections on the first day of the librarian facebook app.

  

• Facebook Librarian Beta Release

  July 2, 2007

  This app no longer exists, btw. It was a cool old thing that did not steal your personal info.

  

• Widget/Gadget rant #2

  June 21, 2007

  Let me start with the bottom line: You should make a widget for your site.

  

• Widget/Gadget rant #1

  June 21, 2007

  Widgets and Gadgets are a pervasive phenomenon. As such, it's strange that they're so under-developed.

  

• Okay, so I almost have a site

  June 14, 2007

  Don't really want a blog. Gonna make it very Brad-like soon.

  

• Example post

  January 1, 1970

  A blog post with example content and front matter.