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T-Shirt of the Week: Insert Nut Joke Here (Expired)
Update: This t-shirt design has expired. Check cssquirrel.speadshirt.com or skreened.com/cssquirrel for the current design on sale. This week’s t-shirt design is inspired by yesterday’s comic about...
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The Folly of Tool Obsession
The well-dressed and well spoken Aarron Walter stars in today’s comic as witness to the tragic results of the Squirrel’s folly. The Frankenpersona, a vile result of the obsession over the use UX tools...
View ArticlePodcast Episode #3: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s Squirrel And Moose
Another Thursday, another awesome Squirrel and Moose podcast featuring the eloquent Dylan Wilbanks and myself. This week we discuss in detail our thoughts on UX Designers specifically, and anyone in...
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T(GIF): We Ride To Battle!
Another Friday, another animated GIF! This week we see the godfather of GIFs, Ethan Marcotte, and the ever enthusiastic Mat Marquis, doing what they do best. Riding flying rainbow-powered pugs into...
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Gut Glut
Today’s guest star is Nishant Kothary, who didn’t work on the new amazing and fully responsive Microsoft.com redesign. The comic also features the consequences of the Squirrel’s misunderstanding the...
View ArticlePodcast #4: Requiem For A (Flash) Dream
Last night I joined the incomparable Dylan Wilbanks to record the fourth episode of our epic podcast Squirrel and Moose. In it we spend nearly thirty minutes beating up Flash for its lunch money,...
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T-Shirts of the Week: Frankenpersona and Ugh
This week’s two designs are based on the last two comics. The first, “Frankenpersona” features the UX persona montrosity that was hunting down the squirrel in The Folly of Tool Obsession. The second...
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Goggles Are In
October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, where we get to celebrate and support the presence of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). I’m reliably informed that web development falls in...
View ArticleCSS Hitbox Detection
Note: Read this to the end before you get too excited. This is an interesting CSS hack/exercise, but it faces a major hurdle that limits its applicability. File this under: cool tricks with CSS that...
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Bonerfart
I’m about to say something I never thought I’d ever say: I’m going to let Kanye West speak for me. Let’s have a toast for the douchebags, Let’s have a toast for the assholes, Let’s have a toast for...
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Venn diagram of my work week
It’s been a hell of a week. In addition to the Kobayashi Maru situation that has become “Donglegate“, and all the other random crap that’s existed in tech culture and the world at large this week,...
View ArticlePodcast #22: Of Google And Men
Last night I performed my normal Thursday ritual, carefully keeping the seals that hold the ancient ones in their slumber in the deepest trenches of the sea… Er, I mean, joining co-host Dylan Wilbanks...
View ArticlePodcast #23: We Know You Al
Last night Dylan Wilbanks and I recorded a new Squirrel and Moose podcast. Here’s how Dylan described it: Dylan and Kyle delve into Faruk Ates’ idea of giving non-anonymous commenters priority in...
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Squirrelcon: The First Ever Squoose Squeetup
If you’re in Seattle on April 1st, either as a local or an attendee at AEA: Seattle, then might I politely ask you to swing past Rob Roy sometime that evening to meet up with Dylan, myself, and...
View ArticlePodcast #24: Weeping Angels
Dylan and I talked about Blink last night, as well as discussing our experiences at the Squeetup event we had that coincided with AEA’s opening night party. Here’s Dylan’s recap of the podcast: Kyle...
View ArticleStandards Matter
It’s easy to think that, in 2013, we live in an era where as web developers we can say that the war for web standards is over and won. After all, didn’t WASP finally declare their work as done back in...
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Unicorny
Unicorn has become something of a loaded term, especially when “UX” joins forces with it, creating a web design Ubermensch that rivals the Jackalopian ‘designelopers’ of yore. For me, the UX Unicorn...
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Burnout, Part 1: Labor
Disclaimer: Once upon a time I worked for a web development company that no longer exists. Several years of my life and career involved that company. This comic, and some more to come, will involve...
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