Mouth Coding

Lately, I’ve been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real websites materialize in front of us as we converse. I’ve been half-jokingly call it mouth coding, and the more I use that term the more I like it. Mouth coding is one of the things that has me most excited about this new era of digital creation: human beings getting together and actually collaborating. Actually making something together. Not just talking about the work (lord knows we’ve all had our fill of that), but literally talking the work into existence together. What mouth coding looks like My wife Melissa works as a counselor and arts therapist at a small private practice called Lucent Counseling in Pittsburgh. The owner, Andrea, is fantastic and is committed to helping people heal, move past trauma, explore multiple therapeutic modalities, and live healthier lives. Her passion for…