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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
New look for heisel.org
A rundown on my new “less is less” design and my use of the Balsamiq wireframe tool and the Blueprint CSS framework. Continue reading
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Eulogy for news voice at Newsless.org
Eulogy for news voice at Newsless.org – It is both easy and intuitive to pop out a story in news voice. In fact, at its worst, the format encouraged a sort of laziness we still see all the time. But … Continue reading
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Per user site-packages, and environment stew
Per user site-packages, and environment stew – I really like the idea of packages, by default, be installed in ~/.local/python-X.X/site-packages
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An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers
An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers – Purely unscientific work from Slate, but I'll be interested in the results.
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Five features Git should steal from Mercurial
Five features Git should steal from Mercurial – I've been using Mercurial for almost all my personal projects but I've been using git-hg and hosting them on GitHub (since it seems to be gaining mindshare). For now, it's been the … Continue reading
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