-
New May 30, 2025
The Fifth Estate
Careless People is a tell-all book that walks through Facebook’s rampant (and criminally?) inept responses to it’s growing role in global policy, from it’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanm...
-
New May 27, 2025
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Take My Hand, Precious Lord (also known as the inverse Precious Lord, Take My Hand) is an old gospel hymn with a unique and special tie-in to the American Civil Rights story. Written in 1932 by T...
-
New May 22, 2025
Vibe Check â„–38
It’s been an eventful three months since my last update. I nearly burnt myself out powering through a big internal release at work in February, a season of back-to-back family activities March and Ap...
-
New May 20, 2025
Moving from Notion to Obsidian
As the world turns, so doth productivity apps churn. Readers of this blog will know I’ve been a user of Notion for the last seven-plus years. The block-based editor, the database features, and ge...
-
New May 12, 2025
How to make a Link Aggregator in Obsidian
I’m finishing up my move from Notion to Obsidian and one complexity I encountered was all my saved links. In the almost seven years of using Notion, I amassed a ~1.2 GB database of links. This is be...
-
New May 7, 2025
Week Links â„–2: April 2025
Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation… that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating lin...
-
New Apr 28, 2025
Don't let your voice be flattened by the ĂĽber theme
I want you to have a blog. Despite this being nearly my entire online ethos, one situation I struggle with are design systems and UX blogs on Medium. A lot of them exist. Yet. I have difficulty un...
-
New Mar 19, 2025
Enshittification as a matter of taste
“Enshittification” is a termed coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023 to describe a pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products. Since Doctorow’s post, there’s been no shortage of...
-
New Mar 9, 2025
Tag, you're it
I’m a bit behind in my RSS feeds and I didn’t realize Susan tagged me to answer a series of questions about my blog. I’ve read dozens of these and to be honest was feeling a little left out, so thanks...
-
New Mar 2, 2025
Unnecessary
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. Yesterday, my daughter was in Dallas for the NCA Cheer Competition. My wife sent me a text letting me know...
-
New Mar 1, 2025
I don't like sand
Happened upon a good example of the problem with AI generated alt text. It’s a gif of the infamous scene from Star Wars Episode II where Hayden Christensen playing Anakin Skywalker tells Natalie P...
-
New Mar 1, 2025
The only way to know for sure... is to build a prototype
I’ve mentioned Mark Brown’s channel Game Makers Tool Kit many times before. Well, I’m back with another banger about “How to find amazing game ideas”. The whole video is great but I specifically want...
-
New Feb 22, 2025
Vibe Check â„–37
As the weather in Texas flip-flops weekly between sunny Spring and snowy Winter, I’ve been dealing with a bit of personal health this last quarter. From my ADHD diagnosis, to trying meds for the fi...