If you had any doubt that people love getting flowers take a look at this – the highest paid supermodel in the world (for nine years running no less) leaving an event with the centerpiece.

Not really fair to accuse her of stealing though... it's common to let guests take flowers home with them and, as the picture illustrates, even the wealthiest and most successful people are thrilled with the prospect.

Incrementally clean, build, and watch with little to no configuration - based on the simple premise of having one source and one destination directory.

Daniel Gagan of Forest Mist Software has created a great, easy-to-use build tool for web files. It is available at the ForestMist repository on GitHub.

It comes preconfigured with practical default settings to get you up and running ASAP. Many users will never have to touch a thing, others will choose to create a Feri config file with their preferred settings. Other, more hardcore developers, will quickly learn to harness the unrestricted power of Feri's API.


Keri requires Node version 4.0.0 or greater.

In software development user interface and interaction design gets a lot of attention. The basic idea is that you want your software to be easy to learn and use. Clients should be able to use it confidently.

The same principles apply to other kinds of interaction – restrooms for example. At a new (and mostly magnificent) medical research facility poor interface design for the restrooms makes using them confusing and frustrating.

The main problem is that you see this sign...

...and make a hard turn to the left, expecting to find restrooms for both men and women.

The problem is that you are greeted with this....

There is tile (on both the walls and the floor), and plumbing... all of which indicates that you are now in a restroom. Unfortunately the only sign visible indicates that it is for women only.

Only if you proceed much farther into this area, which turns out to be a kind of vestibule, with restrooms at either end, do you get any indication that there is also a men's room:

Several software developers meet in this building a few times a year (often to discuss user interface and interaction design) and the restrooms always cause no small amount of confusion. There are some videos that document the typical interaction patterns on my personal site.