Mike Pinkowish

I haven’t blogged since the redesign. Not sure why. I have a decent amount of content to write about, but maybe not the time to write posts with the level of quality that I want to. I’m thinking about changing … Continue reading →

My recent redesign makes use of many CSS3 features for presentation, which Chrome, Safari, and Firefox support beautifully.  However, I also wanted the site to look nice in Opera (no support for background gradients) and IE 8 (almost completely lacking … Continue reading →

Since June, I had been pining to redesign my site.  I had few ideas floating as to what I wanted to design and started elaborating on those ideas.  Probably the most ambitious of those ideas, was something I called the … Continue reading →

Phone interviews are tough, especially for software engineering, user interface, and other tech positions. Background noise on either end, shoddy audio quality, and just the fact that you’re not sitting face-to-face with your interviewer make for a trying experience.  Having … Continue reading →

Pulse of the Planet is a project of mine to visualize tweets in real-time on a map.  It’s powered by Google’s App Engine (Python) and uses the Twitter Search API and Google’s Maps (v3) and Geocoder API. Besides looking cool, … Continue reading →

This fall, I took a psych class, Sensation and Perception, with Brett Fajen.  The class focused on how our perceptions of the world (primarily through the vision system) are formed and altered.  One part of the course involved designing and … Continue reading →