ModernMethod is the collective of two unlikely web entrepreneurs: web developer Thomas Lackner and graphic designer Yanier Gonzalez. The two met in a computer programming class in high school and have since shared an appetite for making internet stuff since. Prior to ModernMethod, Tom and Yanier were directors at an interactive advertising agency that absorbed their start-up e-commerce web design consultancy in 2001. They used to build e-commerce web sites and ad campaigns for airlines and hotels. Today, they build Web sites for themselves and their friends on (mostly nerdy) topics relevant to their interests.

Our management and staffing philosophy is simple: We only hire amazing people that 'get it' and are a joy to work with. Although we do consider them, we honestly don't care too much about degrees or resumes. We care about liking your work so much that we would want to share it with our readers.

Our values

1. COMMUNITY FIRST. PERIOD.
2. Exceed expectations. They should never have to ask.
3. Share your weird joys. Never be afraid to show people what makes you happy.
4. Make calculated risks. Experiment, measure, and adapt against staleness. Praise adaptation.
5. Write every day. (be it code, news, or nonsense) Say or do exactly what you mean in the simplest, purest form.
6. Take full responsibility for your mistakes first. Next, seek out processes that make that mistake difficult to make again for anyone.
7. Know the company goals and work together towards them as a team. Respect each other and deserve people's trust.
8. If you have reconciled that you are right, grow the necessary steel nads to stand by your convictions and integrity.
9. Don't become a pretentious bastard who agrees (or writes up) 10 values they don't actually live by.
10. Dare to put in the time and make any sacrifice necessary to live the dream! (or GTFO)

Management team

We don't really want to put any work in posting hip photos of ourselves, so you'll have to use your imagination.

Tlack is a Miami native, enjoys photography, and is an active contributor in open source software including SAJAX, his popular PHP/Ajax development toolkit. Thomas is a (peculiar) DJ, a menace to the community, and yells at sexy people to write something on MiamiNights.com, his nightlife blog.

Yanier was born in Cuba, enjoys writing, graphic design, and video games. After high school he drew editorial cartoons for the Miami Herald and graduated from Barnes and Nobles's tech-yourself-computer-stuff book isle. Yanier helped write books about Dreamweaver for Wiley and won the Silver Knight and Ford Scholarship for art in 1997. He answers to his childhood nickname "Niero" and is usually the cheeky guy in the helmet promoting Destructoid, his robot baby.