We act like startups but skip their hard-won lessons
John Ousterhout's 2021 note on startup culture reads better now that AI, thinner budgets, and constant iteration have pushed startup habits into organizations that were never built for them.
All writing
Every entry on the site in one register, newest first. Three kinds of thing sit here together: blog posts, which are written pieces; digesting entries, which are something I read plus what I took from it; and impact stories, which are write-ups of work I actually shipped. They are mixed here on purpose — if you would rather keep them apart, the three links below do that.
New here? Start with the picked posts rather than the top of this list; newest is not the same as best.
1.0Sections
By subject
Browse by topic
2.0Pace & scale
How many
102 entries
Since
2013
Most recent
9 Aug 2026
Rate
10.2 a year on average
Busiest year
2026
Typical length
665 words
3.0Everything
A fresh coat of paint and making information actionable for 24 years
From early 2000s information design to semantic maps in 2026, the tools changed; my interest in how information connects did not.
Field notes on Mac OS 9.2, New World ROMs, and Apple Silicon
SheepShaver boots Mac OS 9 with a native JIT. Getting it on Apple Silicon? That took work. Full native 9.2? Even harder.
13 words to turn a rumor into AI fact
Cornell researchers planted thirteen words on Reddit and changed what Deep Research and Gemini reported back.
CADI: a prescriptive path for slop-free AI in content work
A framework to collect, analyze, document, iterate (CADI, for short) is a prescriptive answer to the question everyone keeps asking: should I prompt better, write a style guide, build an agent, or what?
A data font, from the inside out
Datatype is a variable font that turns text into tiny inline charts.
Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
My daily routine assumes the internet survives the disaster
A new UNDRR report maps the disaster nobody is preparing for: the failure of digital infrastructure that has no analogue fallback.
Eye-tracking heatmaps in your browser, no lab needed
Stop guessing whether users will notice your CTA. Foveacast predicts attention from a screenshot, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Stop converting SVG text to outlines
Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.
Why 'reviewed' should be a protected verb
A newsroom AI policy that closes the quote-attribution loophole and treats 'reviewed' as a protected verb.
Designing analytics infrastructure that measures audience quality, not just traffic
15+ websites, no existing benchmarks, and a fundamental question: how do you know if the right people are finding your content?
Putting GA4 where the work happens: an in-browser analytics overlay and its MCP bridge
Content teams shouldn't have to leave the page to learn how it performs, and neither should AI agents.
Let AI worry about the code, you worry about the work
Cultivating LLM productivity requires comfort with the vernacular of code, not the writing of it.
EmDash won't beat WordPress. Drupal just needs to wait
EmDash doesn't need to win to matter, and Drupal's quiet modernization work means it doesn't either.