Same Love

Macklemore’s high-energy radio singles are getting a lot of play, but I’m really impressed by “Same Love,” a beautifully heartfelt song from his latest album.

You don’t often see this level of vulnerability and honesty in hip-hop. This song gives me chills.

In other news, my home state of Rhode Island is finally making real progress in legalizing gay marriage. About damn time.

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Best I Could

My friend Dan Mills is an amazingly talented musician. In addition to writing beautiful songs, he also had a cameo on the TV show Smash last season.

Check out his new single, Best I Could…

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Recovering from a WordPress hack

Over the weekend, I noticed that links for “Secure Payday Loan” where briefly being displayed next to my navigation links. On page reload, they disappeared.

Turns out a lot of other WordPress users who host on GoDaddy were seeing the same issue. It looks like some databases on shared hosting may have been compromised.

Repairing the damage took me about two hours. Here’s how I fixed it…

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Usability Testing Demo

No matter how well designed a website is, watching someone else use it for the first time is an enlightening experience.

This this video, Steve Krug, author of Rocket Surgery Made Easy, demonstrates how to run simple, inexpensive usability tests…

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The Shoemaker

This short film about 91 year old shoemaker Frank Catalfumo is absolutely delightful to watch.

Check out some of director Dustin Cohen’s beautiful photos from the set.

Hat tip Kottke.

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A Real Newspaper

Last weekend, my wife and I met up with my wife’s cousin and his girlfriend for breakfast.

We got there a little early. Normally, I would pull out my iPhone and catch up on some reading in Instapaper or my RSS reader.

But when we sat down in the waiting area, there were newspapers on the seats. My wife picked up the one on her chair. I did the same. And then we started reading them.

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Content Parity on the Web

I had an interesting conversation with someone on LinkedIn a few weeks ago (I know, I’m as surprised as you are by that statement) about dedicated mobile sites versus responsive web design.

A couple of years ago, the benefits of separate sites were more clear to me. Today, I can’t think of a good reason to maintain a separate mobile site.

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