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  • A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the news that Typepad has (finally) decided to get out of the blog hosting game, after 22 years. The platform had steadily become less relevant, and from my side I was forever fighting with silly technical issues - mostly related to images, for some reason - so a) […]

  • If you're going to forget an anniversary, let it be the one for your first engagement with social media. The very definition of a victimless crime. I just remembered that it was back in June 2006 when I started this blog (the welcome post was on June 19th, 2006, so I didn't miss it by […]

  • This post goes out to my blogging brethren (and sistren) around the world… I'm sure more than a few of you have tried this, yourselves, so hopefully it'll be of some help to people. I recently looked back at a post of mine embedding Autodesk University 2018 videos and noticed that they no longer worked: […]

  • When I first started this blog, back in 2006, I used our (back then) Autodesk-recommended blogging platform, Typepad. When configuring the blog I had in the back of my mind that I'd end up putting it on a custom domain of some kind (perhaps Shaan Hurley's autodesk.blogs.com), so I chose to use a blog-specific subfolder […]

  • The Forge team (many of whom I worked with back when I was part of the Autodesk Developer Network organisation) have created a new developer blog focused on all things Forge. You'll find a lot of the usual suspects who contributed to the Cloud & Mobile DevBlog (in fact that particular blog's content has already […]

  • Last week this blog sailed through the 10th anniversary of its first post. I can't believe how time has flown… posting 3 times a week for a decade has resulted in 1,448 posts, accumulating more than 6.2 million pageviews. I suppose when something's so much fun you don't really see time passing. Visually, the blog […]

  • I've been spending more time looking at generative design in recent months (although this is a relative thing… I've still only posted once about Dynamo, for instance). So far a big chunk of my research has been understanding what's going on in different parts of the company with respect to generative design. As part of […]

  • Over the holiday break I decided to create a new home for Through the Interface, one based on self-hosted WordPress. While I've invested many hours in my use of Typepad, over the years – some fruitfully, others less so – I really felt it was time for a change. This decision isn't without its challenges: […]

  • Now that the dust has finally settled on Autodesk University 2015, I thought I'd write a couple of posts about some fun I had on Wednesday and Thursday. At this year's event I had classes to deliver on both Tuesday and Wednesday mornings (at 8am and 10am, respectively). This is probably due to the fact […]

  • It's insane how the years tick past. Today marks the 9th anniversary of Through the Interface. For a bit of fun, I've added an Easter Egg (well, actually it's more like a Birthday Cake) to Vrok.it: Choose the "Cake" button on the left to view a Birthday Cake modelled completely using AutoCAD. If you connect to […]