Today is my 38th birthday. Feeling a lot of gratitude.

TIL about the CSS cap unit, which is equal to the current font’s capital letter height.

I celebrated my birthday at the beach this year. My friends surprised me with matching temporary tattoos of my face, along with a towel also of my face. Silly, dumb fun. 🎂

Bagheera is a sleepy psychedelic kitty 🐈‍⬛

It took me a while to figure out why LSP was reporting describe was not a valid method of string.

const id = label.toLowerCase().replaceAll(' ', '-').
describe('DisabledField', () => {

There’s always room for gummy worms.

I put my homemade aftershave in little potion bottles so I can feel like a shave wizard.

New keyboard new life. Having Touch ID when docked is a game changer.

Here's an unfinished freelance article I wrote for Cracked many years ago. It was never published, but made it pretty far in the review process. 1. The Kraken was a giant squid The legend of the … Read more

In case you’re feeling like government can’t do good things for regular people like you and me.

I wrote this story in college for a writing class. It's a fantasy piece, set in the world of the Iron Kingdoms. I liked it at the time. Melvin Kretchum sat behind an enormous stack of books, their … Read more

I wrote this story in collage for no one. Very apparent I'm a young writer still clinging to my darlings, and I couldn't get near anything of weight. Still, there's something there, I think. Once upon … Read more

Here's a silly sketch I'm pretty proud of. Mash up of Ocean's Eleven and music. INT. DINER - DAY DANNY Blues sits in a diner booth oozing charm, whipping French fries into his mouth. He is joined by … Read more

One liner to open all git modified files in your editor. Substitute nvim with your-editor; statistically code.

git status -s | awk '{print $2}' | xargs nvim

Another old story I figured I'd publish. It's pretty weird. There was something heavy in the air. It crashed through a second floor window, landing in a pile of broken glass and furniture. It was a … Read more

I ordered 3 of Julia Evans zines.

1. How git works
2. Bite Size Command Line
3. HTTP: Learn your browser’s language

I have the PDFs, but waiting to read the physicals. Very excited.

Compelling critique of societies rigid conceptions of how technology interlocks with human life.

Google has been really kicking their own ass, in existential hit after hit. Tighten it up.

Back in the 80s, Tipper Gore and other cultural conservatives went on a crusade against sex and violence in popular music. They put together a list of fifteen representative songs to use as a … Read more

This has been making the rounds, and is super fun and interesting. Well worth the ten minute run time. How do they know dogs are colorblind? (w/ Cleo Abram) - YouTube

Fifteen years. Holy crap. I had no grand plans when I started this blog, and it’s bonkers to me that this is still going. I had made a few personal websites prior to the creation of this blog, … Read more

The historical connection between weaving and writing is so cool.

I ran across this a while ago, but never linked to it. Correcting that grave mistake now. motherfuckingwebsite.com

My friend Lindsey shared this piece on the inspired and terrible Ginger Baker. It focuses on his time after Cream in Nigeria, and his lasting impact there. The album he did with Fela Kuti is incredible.

TIL about margin-trim from Apple’s What’s new in CSS video. Excited for when it’s broadly supported in browsers. Right now, it’s only in Safari.