Good morning my nerdy bretheren, I’ve spent most of my morning researching an API to handle sales tax calculation within California. There are a handful of good options for that. I’m more impressed with the number of different API’s that have come onto the scene in a big way over the last couple of years. [...]

I was having an interesting conversation with my girlfriend last night. She’s notoriously anti-technology and I was curious why she felt this way. She kept going back to “I don’t like it when things tell me what to do.” It’s a powerful concept. When software, websites and user interfaces are difficult to use your users [...]