I quit my job in January, and have been on a professional sabbatical since then. I have spent the past six weeks in New York, a city I lived in for two years two years ago. New York has always been, to me, a city of fantasy. When I was unhappy in San Francisco, it was imagining a better life in New York that drew me...

Jul 13 2026 There is a scourge of AI-designed signs taking over America, especially small businesses and organizations. I will not mince words: these signs are disgusting. They are maybe the most aesthetically ugly and repulsive things I have ever seen. It is fascinating that AI is capable of producing something far...

Fade-in animated text adds nothing. Just let text be text.

What The Amazing Digital Circus and its AI overlord Caine reveal about real-world artificial intelligence

I wrote an essay for The Empty Cup about longplays Read it at The Empty Cup

What can we learn from a defunct twenty year old Avatar: the Last Airbender fan forum?

Do-nothing software development

Against big tech credentialism

Put away your phone and play Pokémon on your Nintendo DS instead

AI can sort of code, can't write

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On AI-generated personal website design and the value of human taste