Hand Drawn SVGs

I’ve been trying to find a good workflow for drawing vector artwork that has the spontaneity and roughness of hand drawn images. tl;dr If you’re just interested in my process, and not the … Read more

Finished reading: The Road to React by Robin Wieruch. Took me over eight months. It was only meh.

I’m reading a Murakami story collection in an art gallery. Someone stops, mentions they read it, too. They move on, then come back. I didn’t get the one with the ghost. I try to relate, but confuse it with a different story. Maybe you haven’t read that one yet. Maybe I haven’t. It’s hard to hear through the masks. I say I have been letting the stories wash over me, feeling dumb. They are eager to leave. It all feels like a Murakami story.

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Finished reading: Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava.

Read the short story The Case for and Against Love Potions by Imbolo Mbue.

Finished reading: Heroes by Stephen Fry. Pure joy.

Started reading: Heroes by Stephen Fry.

Finished reading: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen. It took me around six months.

Finished reading: Letters From an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Took me over a month.

Finished reading: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost. Read it in 27 days.

Started reading: The Road to React by Robin Wieruch.

Double Brett

I entered a erotica fiction contest for the popular comedy podcast Double Threat, and I was lucky enough to have my submission given a superlative on the show. What follows is that submission. Content … Read more

Started reading: Letters From an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Started reading: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost.

Finished reading: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry.

Best pink panther movies

Only counting the original movies with Peter sellers. A Shot in the Dark The best movie in the series doesn’t bear its name. The Return of the Pink Panther The Pink Panther Strikes Again Revenge of … Read more

Read: On Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese.

Started reading: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry.

A Hallmark Channel AI Christmas

Another piece I wrote in collaboration with an A.I., this time, trying to create the most stereotypical Hallmark movie plot possible. I failed. You are a young woman coming home from the city. You are … Read more

Fixing GPG Yubikey integration on macOS Big Sur

I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn&rsquo;t unlock my stuff. Every time I tried to use gpg (Yubikey … Read more

Painfully Rendering a Simple Bar Chart with Nivo

I&rsquo;ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock. The app will visualize data around New York&rsquo;s 50a police disciplinary record … Read more

Read the short story Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit by Rebecca Curtis.

Finished reading: Dungeon World Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel. It took me 11 days.

Started reading: Dungeon World Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel.

PHP Boolean Casting Gotchas

I find PHP&rsquo;s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I&rsquo;m not alone. To help myself out, and anyone else that happens to stumble upon it, I wrote a commented script that … Read more