2019-08-25 My first photo that looks like this In the past seven years I’ve take a lot of photos that look like this one ↑ which I took on March 3, 2006, six...
2019-07-29 My Summer of ’69 Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69” was playing at the coffee shop this morning. In my memory that song feels like “Summer of ’85,” which was...
2019-06-10 In support of HB 2001 In 10min I wrote some testimony in favor of Oregon house bill 2001. Portland for Everyone has a quick explainer. Here’s an OPB story about...
2019-04-09 Activity rings Of course after my last humblebrag about biking 20mi/day I’d come down with a health issue laser-targeted to keep me off the bike. I’ve barely...
2019-03-25 Four things about Portland that I only notice when I travel somewhere else Every time I travel outside Portland I notice the following things about my home, but in reverse: It is always green The streets are really...
2019-03-15 ♥ Imagining and building There always comes a point where I can’t finish “designing” something in my head. I have to start building it to find the edges.
2019-02-21 All my pretty web monsters, 2013–2019 Oh golly have the last six years been busy. Here are some webby/appy/emaily things I’ve touched. This is almost certainly not a complete list. This...
2019-02-15 ♥ Trolling Works Every three or four years I’ll kick a hornet’s nest by saying something like: fellow front-end devs: if you ever feel intimidated by your back-end...
2019-02-14 Production constraints are design constraints 3 kids × (26 classmates + 2 teachers + 4 TAs) = 96 handmade Valentine’s Day cards. Last night the kids hauled out the Big...
2019-02-12 Textural roads, textural cars I drove my car downtown to work today so now I totally get why all you people are such assholes. No but seriously I have...
2019-02-06 Pour one out for Flickr and our naive vision for the open Internet In anticipation of the now-upon-us FlickrPocalpyse I’m weeding out about 90% of my Flickr feed. It is hugely depressing. Because I don’t want Flickr to...
2019-02-05 We are past groundhog day already Usually I try to make a resolution of sorts at the end of January. This was inspired by the world’s most rewatchable movie. So this...