An Irish web developer living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I built Huffduffer.
There are twenty-one people in adactio’s collective.
The East Wing is a podcast brought to you by Tim Smith, that talks with industry experts about design, solving problems and the keys to creating products with value.
This week we talk to Ashley Baxter. Ashley describes herself as a tinkerer of many things, and we agree. At the young age of 18, she took over the family business and has branched out into other products. We talk about how she got started, her first talk, and more.
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Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine with a new one, named Blink. What’s up with that? To find out, Chris Wilson and Paul Irish join Jen Simmons to explain rendering engines and vendor prefixes.
Sam Penix and Sam Lewontin, of Everyman Espresso in New York City, and Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, explain how to get the most out of your grounds. The brewmasters discuss brewing devices, from wood necks to chemex, and filter out reasons you might choose one over another.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861384/experts-percolate-on-how-to-brew-coffee
From privacy concerns to technology saturation, Google’s new technology has had its fair share of criticism â and it’s not even on sale yet. The company wants to change those negative perceptions of its wearable computer before it goes on sale to the public.
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In the third episode, Wu talks to Margaret Atwood, author of science-flavored dystopian fiction like Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. In 2012, she published In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, in which she explored science fiction as an author and as a reader.
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We got an email through to Clearleft from someone pointing out a certain similarity between our website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8719586981/
…and the website for a company called Kent Web Host:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8720710854/
Hmmm …perhaps Clearleft were unconsciously influenced by Kent Web Host!
Just to set the record straight, I gave them a call.
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Phosphorescent, aka Matthew Houck, stops by the Cutting Room Studios NYC for a live session with a full band and performs songs from the album "Muchacho". Recorded 3/20/2013 - 4 songs: Terror In The Canyons (The Wounded Master), Song For Zula, The Quotidian Beasts, A New Anhedonia
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This podcast is the recording of Jared’s keynote from UX Thursday Chicago.
The world of web application design is expanding at a rapid rate. We’re now expected to design great experiences across a huge variety of platforms, from small screens to large displays. The flood of iPad applications and successful online businesses are showing our executives that design matters.
Why is all this happening now? Where is it all going? UIE’s own Jared Spool will show you how four driving forces — market maturity, the emergence of experience, the Kano Model, and Sturgeon’s Law — are increasing the visibility and value of design in organizations everywhere. He’ll show you what the next generation of design teams will look like and how you’ll get there.
Recorded: January, 2013
The Gently Mad is an interview show about what drives us as creators and connects us as people. Each week, we explore the stories, experiences and insights of awesome people who make awesome things. Hosted by Adam Clark.
Krystyn Heide, a highly-respected designer at Squarespace, talks about life as an early employee of a company that has grown to more than 100, happy accidents, her love for sci-fi and what matters the most to her in life.
The Gently Mad is an interview show about what drives us as creators and connects us as people. Each week, we explore the stories, experiences and insights of awesome people who make awesome things. Hosted by Adam Clark.
Jenn Lukas, Interactive Director at HappyCog, talks about her path to becoming a front-end developer extraordinaire, writing and speaking, vegetarian cheesesteaks and ice cream.
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