The other
things.
Writing, photography, painting, reading. The parts of me that live outside a codebase.
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Writing
Thoughts on code, engineering, and building things.
What painting taught me about negative space in UI
A canvas has edges. So does a screen. What happens in between is where craft hides — same goes for screen real estate.
Read article →Microfrontends do the cost nobody mentions
A sermon to my future self. Nobody mentions the coordination overhead that silently replaces tight coupling with loose chaos — until you have a client.
Read article →Building FITX alone: what I'd do differently
A postmortem. The lessons aren't technical. An honest accounting of what it costs to build a solo product.
Read article →Designing for the user you haven't met
Every product decision is an assumption about a person. Good design knows exactly which assumptions it is making.
Read article →Photography
The way to slow life down. A camera in a pocket, a long walk, a few good frames a year.
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2.1mm f/2.2 1/100 ISO333Make things with your hands when you can. The screen is patient — paper isn't.— Studio notes, 2024
Paintings
Acrylic on canvas, mostly. Reached national level in competitions. Been painting since before I could code.
Chess
Guitar
Horse
Lake
Lips
Marionetter
Portrait
Sadhu
Toucan
Reading
An ongoing list of what I'm reading and what's queued next.