Needmore Designs was founded not long after 37signals launched the first version of Basecamp. This project management service has never aspired to be sexy, but within the confines of project management software, it’s honestly been about as sexy as you could get. 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s also damned useful. It got us…

As a designer, not a gamer. I find myself more interested in the user interface than the games themselves. Sometimes it’s hard to extract $50 worth of value from these games when I’ve learned everything I want to about how they work after just a few hours.

System font stacks are a relatively new concept in web design, but they’re a good concept, and there are certain cases where we really like to see them. First of all, let’s define them. A “system font stack” is basically a way of telling the web browser to use the…

When I was just out of high school, I got a job at Kinko’s. This would have been around 1990. Back then, it was still just slightly cool. I loved this job because I got to be around Macintosh computers, a luxury I did not enjoy at home. (They were…

How Guided by Voices took The Beatles back to school — In many ways, The Beatles (aka The White Album) was the most diverse, the most divisive, and the most enduring of the band’s albums. Certainly there are more “weak songs” on The Beatles, if only because there are so many songs. Being their only double album, the math isn’t helping…

Grant Hart is gone. The most underrated member of the most underrated band to ever come out of my home town in the middlemost part of the midwest, the Twin Cities. Grant always seemed to live a slightly cursed life. Though Hüsker Dü were successful, he always resented being a…

As reported by @ASlavitt on Twitter. Takes away access to care for 24 million people. At last count. One million more people lose coverage than if ACA was repealed and had no replacement. 7 million employed Americans, 1.2 million Vets included in those who would lose coverage. …

For years, every pundit and blogger who cares about gaming has weighed in on Nintendo’s mobile strategy. Since the debut of Apple’s App Store, and with every passing year, it seems crazier and crazier that Nintendo isn’t porting their mobile games to the platform. I was one of them! Who…

By implementing a few critical tips, one can create a solid, flexible custom content management setup for their WordPress website using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). Why ACF? The plain old content editor in WordPress is suprisingly limiting. And, full-blown content builders have a host of issues of their own. This…