My first photo that looks like this 2019-08-25 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...
My Summer of ’69 2019-07-29 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...
In support of HB 2001 2019-06-10 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...
Activity rings 2019-04-09 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...
Four things about Portland that I only notice when I travel somewhere else 2019-03-25 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...
Imagining and building♥ 2019-03-15 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.
All my pretty web monsters, 2013–2019 2019-02-21 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...
Trolling Works♥ 2019-02-15 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...
Production constraints are design constraints 2019-02-14 3 kids × (26 classmates + 2 teachers + 4 TAs) = 96 handmade Valentine’s Day cards. Last night the kids hauled out the Big...
Textural roads, textural cars 2019-02-12 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...
Pour one out for Flickr and our naive vision for the open Internet 2019-02-06 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...
We are past groundhog day already 2019-02-05 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...
