Three mostly but not wholly unrelated pieces of tech media archaelogy
1. Anna Weiner is one of my favorite tech writers: you probably remember her from last year's earnest and perfect piece Uncanny Valley. Later in 2016, she...
Through lines
Some weeks have through lines: I can remember things like "this is the week where it became unbearably apparent that Seattle needs more air conditioning" or...
Building a better backscratcher
What I've been working on It is Memorial Day, and feels like it. It's eighty two degrees in Seattle: we opted to stay in town for the weekend, catching up on...
Two days in Portland
We got into Portland a little past midnight on Friday. M had a lacrosse tournament there, and a friend from college wanted to visit, so we decided to just...
Being on a train
I try and write these letters fairly spontaneously -- I sit down at a coffee shop on Sunday, I write for around thirty minutes, I make sure there are no...
On having packed enough
I'm writing this from the airport, because I'm going to Richmond. I'm writing this from the airport at 9pm (PST -- sorry for the late email, east coast...
Ten mostly disjunct statements and one question about podcasts
I know very little about podcasts. (I've been listening to them for all of like two years, which even in podcast years is not many years.). So, uh, keep that...
A brief, considered list of my coffeeshop heuristics
A strong diversity of seating options. The ideal is a 50/50 mix of tables (for working) and big chairs (for reading.) An extant but quiet ambient noise...
Spring cleaning
I've spent the past week getting rid of clothes. This is what I'm shipping out to Goodwill, right after I send this email: By my count, it's the following:...
Things are good
I spent the past week or so working on a thing. This is the thing: finally adding support for lists in @spoonbill_io. diving back into Twitter API-land after...
Ragnarok and Chikhai
There are a couple authors I will follow anywhere: Neil Gaiman is one of them. I've followed him to graveyards, to a mysterious pond at the end of dusty...
Half a year
This weekend was tax weekend for me. (Perhaps, more accurately, it is tax weekend for me -- I still need to dig out a couple lingering receipts and forms.)...
How to close the great distance between people
A NOTE March has gone by so quick. I say this every month, it seems -- and by the time March has gone by so quick, it means that 2017 has started to go by so...
Small chaos
([sighs deeply] Tinyletter is bad with links and they didn't work in the previous one. Sorry about the double email!) This weekend has been a pleasant...
Parking lots, heuristics, and a corgi in a box.
My partner and I have been going rock climbing every weekend for the past few months. (Okay, technically we're going bouldering, not rock climbing --...
Rest days
This is an email about me not knowing what I want to write in this email. The advantage of these little missives is that they are extemporaneous, and that...
One of those slow weeks
Some weeks are slow weeks because you're slow; other weeks are slow weeks because the world is slow. This was one of the weeks where I couldn't tell the...
It's snowing!
That's what I said Sunday night, as little flurries started gliding their way down to the Seattle streets. it was so faint that I couldn't tell if it was...
There and back again
I spent most of this week in Orange County, where my company is based. It was fun and valuable to actually be with folks who I almost entirely interact with...
So I have a cold.
There are, at least for me, two kinds of colds: the knock-you-on-your-ass kind of cold where you feel exhausted and can't really move or do anything beyond...