The Technical Director role within an agency or consultancy is often difficult to define. We wear many different hats that are otherwise worn by a Staff Engineer, Director of Engineering or CTO.

Photoshop isn’t up to laying out text for the web, so we made our own tool.

A quick list of things I learned while building things in 2015.

UPDATE 2010 EDITION: Just use Netlify.

Working on a project with many designers and engineers can make it difficult to manage type styles. I find that we often end up with different sizes or weight definitions littered throughout the project with a lot of repetition as styles are redefined within media queries.

I used to be an active contributor to Symphony CMS, an open souce PHP content management system. What started as an effort to learn the framework for my day job quickly became an obsession that led to exhaustion.