Apr 15, 2016You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t TakeI’m co-founding a brand new company being launched by Boulder BITS. Until recently, I was the Head of Technology at Parent Co., a company with the mission to create thoughtful digital tools for parents. A shift in fiscal priorities towards the Parent Co. …Startup2 min read
Feb 19, 2016“You think it can’t happen here. Let me tell you a story about ‘here’.”“R U OK?”, he asked. “I love U guys”, 16-year-old Emily messaged back. That was the last time her parents would hear from her. Emily Keyes was shot and killed by a rogue gunman who took hostages at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado in September 2006. Last night…School Shootings3 min read
Nov 17, 2015Making the most of our long distance relationships at Parent Co.Parent Co. is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont and half of our team of 16 is distributed globally. We have team members in 4 countries, 5 U.S. states, and we’re spread across 7 timezones. …Remote Working3 min read
Apr 4, 2014Twitter and the power of customer serviceCopyright Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. Check out this conversation I had on Twitter tonight with @holman at GitHub. I’m not sure if this qualifies as “customer service” or what, just bear with me. I found an incredibly minor issue when saving a GitHub project page to my iPhone…2 min read
Mar 27, 2014Reviewing Fluent ‘14What I learned at O’Reilly’s Web Platform conference — O’Reilly Conferences The short version: I learned a lot. The long version? Go grab a coffee, you’ll be happy you did when you reach the embedded videos. The O’Reilly Fluent Conference was first launched in 2012 as a new event for developers working with JavaScript, HTML5, and other web technologies…6 min read
Mar 20, 2014Customizing Bootstrap the Right WayHow to setup your app the right way to make upgrades simpler in the future — I’ve built dozens of web apps using Bootstrap. Countless one-pagers and plenty of full sites. In the early days I thought the framework was the cat’s meow because of how quickly you can get a decent looking webpage up and running. Then every site on web looked like the default…3 min read
Nov 5, 2013Uninstalling WordPressI blogged for 10 years, and I’m done. After trying many others, WordPress was my choice of blogging platform. I knew it inside and out, the good and the bad. I genuinely liked it—in its early days. It wasn’t trying to be an operating system, it was a great tool…2 min read
