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Developer ∩ Technologist

I got into software development from a fairly stereotypical background of video games and messing around with PCs. I distinctly remember playing through Final Fantasy VII on the original PlayStation, and having my dad tell...

Thoughts on the Vision Pro

The reality of Apple hardware launches is that there's no shortage of previews, reviews, first impressions, hot takes, and thought pieces about what it all means —leading up to, during, and after the...

Ephemeral Web Real Estate

In an era when written letters are outright quaint , I still enjoy the tradition of the Christmas card. We started it when the kids were born[1], and have kept it up with annual updates...

The Stasis of E-Ink

I'm fond of e-ink displays and devices catering to the display type. My kitchen calendar display project was one of my favorite projects of the year: it became a combination of playing with...

Google's Villain Arc

It seems so long ago when Google was the scrappy but growing technology upstart. It made sense of the morass that was the internet in the 2000s and early 2010s, and along the way rewrote...

The Pattern of Technology

Almost a decade ago, the comms lead at Square wrote this piece on how the media builds up, and then tears down, its subjects like clockwork. At the time, we were—to use the horological analogy—at the metaphorical 11th hour, with the tech media questioning our business model and competencies as a payments processor,...