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Van and camper, gap semester, art fundraiser
May 5, 2022
Hello! It's been quite a while. I hope you've been well. Last I wrote, I hadn't yet gone on vacation, and that was last fall. Time to put a long time in a...
Personal websites, cyborg rights activism
July 29, 2021
Ongoing sketch, 2021 I wrote last week about the therapeutic effect of working on something that is truly yours. This time, I’d like to indulge in shout-outs...
Let a thing remain a worry stone
July 22, 2021
Ongoing sketch, 2021 Last year, when the lockdowns were coming down on us everywhere, Ethan Marcotte occasionally posted short updates to his website,...
A bit on calm technology
June 17, 2021
Hello! I hope today is treating you as good as you're looking (wow!) I'm fresh out of the Web à Québec conference. I myself presented, earlier on tuesday,...
Animal you
June 3, 2021
Boroughs, 2020 If you have a dog beside you as you read this, bend down, look into her eyes, and stroke her. Via the hypothalamus inside your body, oxytocin...
Bits of kind software
April 9, 2021
Generative runes, from a 2018 experiment Hi friends! I’ve been swamped by work recently, and have slowed down the dispatch to help me balance out my...
Tactile digital
March 18, 2021
Untitled generation from the Vapor series, 2019 Heya, Do you know about Procreate? It’s an accessible and powerful drawing tool for iPad – it’s very popular....
Open-source... design?
March 11, 2021
Untitled piece from 2019. This one is for product and digital design friends. Put on your nerd glasses 🤓 If you’re minimally familiar with GitHub, you know...
A kinder inbox
March 4, 2021
Untitled exploration, 2020 The year is 2014. In a glorious moment of self-actualization, you decide to finally focus your productivity on things that matter,...
Work experience paralysis
February 25, 2021
Convergence 671810 – From what is easily my favorite generator to date. Half a decade ago, I could deliver a project easier than I can today. Back then, I...
May the lava lamps protect me
February 18, 2021
Untitled sketch, early 2021 When you enter the lobby at the Cloudflare office in San Francisco, there’s a big wall of lava lamps – eighty of them, to be...
Whose privacy is it anyway
February 11, 2021
Urban Sketch 433918 – I’d like to make it a habit to lead the letter by sharing some digital art of mine, or promoting someboy else’s. Sounds good? Hello...
You're never done with ethics
January 21, 2021
Back in 2019, I stubled upon this thread by Jane Ruffino on Twitter. It hit me immediately, and has remained in my mind since: Jane Orwell’s Woke Mob Ruffino...
Cellular automata as a brand
January 15, 2021
It’s been more than ten years now since Melbourne’s rebrand, and it definitely brought the concept of a flexible identity to the spotlight. Melbourne’s...
Consented Hijack
January 6, 2021
Jason Yuan, Omar Rizwan and Jeff Dlouhy recently published a browser extension called Hijack Your Feed. I’ll let Jason’s introduction of Hijack Your Feed...
Bicycles and dishwashers
June 12, 2019
🚲 🍽 There's a useful analogy I come back to regularly. It goes something like this: A given technology tends to be useful in one of two ways: Either it's...
Putting out some good in the world
June 4, 2019
You're never done with ethics. Hi friends! This thread hit me immediately and has remained in my mind constantly since: I also think calling something...