Play at work đź”—
More than making money… more than that feeling of launching a new product, feature, website, or app… the idea I am coming to value most in my professi [...]
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Where have all the flowers gone? đź”—
A post from Jason Velazquez called “Where have all the websites gone?” crossed my socials. It’s a good lament about the dearth of interesting content [...]
WobblyBox, a web component for wobbly boxes đź”—
For years the latest articles list on my homepage had a neat little CSS trick where each post had wobbly “rough boxes” around them. To create the effe [...]
Not a collector, but... đź”—
You might look at my office and the 32 plastic robot models on my shelf and think “This guy is a collector!” Or you might look a the bass guitar, elec [...]
Stitch images together with Stitchy đź”—
From time to time I need to stitch together two or three images into a horizontal or vertical image. It seems so wasteful to spin up a whole design do [...]
A life of preferences đź”—
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I think about this tweet a lot. Being a billionaire must [...]
Dropout đź”—
Have you heard about Dropout? Spun off from College Humor, Dropout is a paid streaming service with hours and hours of high quality improv content. Fo [...]
MDX with Web Components Part II đź”—
In a recent post I covered how to get MDX-style posts with web components and people come to me every day, tears in their eyes, and ask me to go into [...]
Ecosia đź”—
Last year I switched my default search engine twice. First from Bing to Duck Duck Go. It felt different but during my Bing de-listing fiasco I learned [...]
Trying to be the ideal American family with a small fridge đź”—
I’m coming to the realization when you’re a family with a small fridge you cannot be all these platonic ideals at the same time: The buy in bulk Costc [...]
Accessible Fart Machines đź”—
I stumbled across this TED talk by Holly Cohen about building accessible fart machines with Arduino. As someone who loves to tell jokes – and particul [...]
Quotes from moving house đź”—
I’ve moved house over sixteen times in my lifetime (more if you count step-homes). Apartment to house, city to city, state to state, country to countr [...]
Twenty Twenty-Three đź”—
2023 has been a memorable year and –at times– downright existential. Looking at the scorecard, it’s pretty clear there’s been more downs than ups. Des [...]
The History of Donkey Kong and Mario đź”—
Went on a little video game bender thanks to Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle on Shmuplations, which translates an interview from “bit” magazine with [...]
Vibe Check â„–30 đź”—
The year is almost over. The weather is delightful in Austin and walking the neighborhood is a joy. Happiness arrives in holiday cards. The tree is up [...]
Projects: Finally a home for my projects, side projects, and weird ideas đź”—
Inspired by my home for stories, I decided to build a home for all the projects, side projects, and weird ideas I’ve chased over the years in a new Je [...]
I spent a whole week refactoring a single file đź”—
I spent the last week refactoring a single file on a single service of Luro to fix a production-only bug, which caused our server to fall over and too [...]
Vibe Check â„–29 đź”—
The weather is changing. The cool rains of Fall have arrived after a brutal “hottest on record” Summer. My wife is back working at the school, family [...]
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi đź”—
For years I’ve been tinkering on and off with writing short speculative fiction on my blog; which I affectionately call my “shitty sci-fi” (to keep th [...]
So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed 🔗
There were two times in my career where I’ve been publicly shamed over accessibility. The first was at one of the first conferences I ever attended an [...]