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SXSW 2025: Back After a Decade 

I hadn’t set foot in Austin for SXSW Interactive since the mid‑2000s. Life, work, and moving out of the country. Coming back this year felt like flipping through an old sketchbook—familiar scribbles, but with whole new pages begging to be […]

Travel Packing List

Here’s the list I use every time I need to pack for a trip. Before You Go Cards & Credentials On You Tech Grear Clothes Dopp Kit Other

My Mobile Workstation

I spend a lot of time moving back and forth between Austin, Texas and Tamarindo, Costa Rica. I make the trip at least 4 times and year and spend half the year in each city. As a full time web

Costa Rica Travel Recommendations from a Local

Since my wife and I have been living in Costa Rica for a couple of years now and have lots of friends and family visit, we’ve become pretty good at giving advice on Costa Rica travel recommendations. I even started

Favorite Website Website Tools and Plugins of 2015

I’ve been building websites for small businesses for over 15 years and am always optimizing my tool belt. My goal is to analyze the users/customers and build a website using best practices for visitor engagement and conversion. There’s no reason

Notes from Presentation on Interview Hacking

Great presentation by Travis McCutcheon of Leap for Mankind at the Lean User Experience Austin meetup titled Interview Hacking. Lots of good tips and a DIY work flow for interviewing. Here are my notes:

Austin Startup Week 2011

I attended a few of the events for Austin Startup Week. For a first year event it was packed with enthusiastic entrepreneurs, website demos, and plenty of networking events. It reminded me of being at SXSW Interactive. Austin Startup Weeks

2011 SXSWi Takeaways

This was my fifth year in a row at SXSW Interactive. As usual very inspiring and educational. This year’s big trends seem to be HTML5/CSS3 and the evolution of online Groups. I bounced around this year to different topics, meeting