Float Label – From Shot to Repo in a Day

In late September Matt D. Smith posted a shot on Dribbble of a mobile interaction pattern that he was working on with the goal of improving mobile form usability. In the shot he’s subtly animating placeholder values so that they change color and...

Code Reviews: How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Do We Go?

“I only modified one line of the file, why should I be responsible for fixing the coding style of the whole thing?” That was my first reaction when participating in a full-scale code review at one of the software companies I worked for. Then, if I do have to fix the...
Postgres Host-Based Authentication

Postgres Host-Based Authentication

I got this kind of error when trying to access postgres more than once: psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “postgres” Also I wanted to be able to use postgres from a script without having to type the password in. Here’s what’s...