Musings

  • Managing Chronic Illness While Working

    Shortly after I developed my vestibular disorder, I began working remote, from home. Even before that, my employer accommodated me by letting me work from…

  • Optimizing Working Remote

    Optimizing Working Remote

    For the last eighteen months, I have been working remotely from my home in Wisconsin for a startup located in San Francisco. This has been…

  • A Word on Color

    Over the weekend, there has been a lot of buzz about ‘the dress’ and whether it is blue and black, or white and gold. The…

  • People Driven Development

    As a developer, I hear terms like behavior driven development and test driven development being used constantly. And these are good methods for building software.…

  • Single Payer Healthcare

    I’m pretty lucky. I have a solid career and reliable income. I also have health insurance through my employer, unlike millions of other Americans. However,…

  • Do’s and Don’ts for Web Accessibility

    While at this time the federal government has not made it mandatory or criminal if you do not, the larger your company is the more…