24 Jan 2026
VR Productivity finally almost surpasses physical displays
After years of trying, I found a work VR work setup that works real: Quest 3, Immersed on Mac, and a single ultra-wide screen.
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15 Jan 2026
How to measure impact when analytics lie
You've defined success. Now what? Most analytics dashboards won't answer the questions that matter.
26 Dec 2025
URLs are the state management you should use
How well-designed URLs can replace state stores with shareable, bookmarkable state.
21 Dec 2025
Improving AI chatbots with an editorial handbook from your best content
Editorial guidelines are often too vague for humans — and useless for AI. Extract patterns from your best content to create actionable standards for both.
21 Dec 2025 | Project note
Turning vague content guidelines into measurable AI-ready standards
UNDRR's AI assistant couldn't learn from vague guidelines like 'keep it concise.' I extracted patterns from high-quality examples to create measurable standards.
5 Dec 2025
Digest videos into sketchnotes through AI
Daniel Vaughan built an agent that generates sketchnotes from YouTube videos — a visual triage step before committing to long-form content.
4 Dec 2025
Large projects need large communicating
Ben Kuhn shares his playbook for managing complex projects at scale, from maintaining detailed plans to delegating management itself.
3 Dec 2025
Making sense of Microsoft’s many AI Copilots
Five Copilots, one brand — and one table to explain what each does.
3 Dec 2025
Measuring success beyond the page view
Analytics on page views and bounce rates won't tell you if your content has impact — here's how I measure what actually matters.
8 Nov 2025
Creating warm, dappled light with CSS and SVG
I added a sunlit ambience effect to this site using pure CSS and SVG — no JavaScript, just gradients and blend modes.
7 Nov 2025
Why AI can't be debugged like traditional software
Boyd Kane explains why treating AI like debuggable code misses the fundamental difference in how these systems work.
4 Nov 2025
Plenty to learn from Fedora's approach to AI code
The first community-driven policy I've seen that treats AI as a tool requiring human accountability, not a shortcut.
28 Oct 2025
Introducing a "Work" section
A home for evidence-led impact stories documenting measurable outcomes from my work on platforms, performance, and design systems.
18 Oct 2025 | Project note
Making disaster economics compelling for global policymakers
UNDRR's flagship disaster risk report needed to communicate $2.3 trillion in annual losses — without burying the message in data or slowing access for users in disaster-prone regions.
13 Oct 2025
It's true, short disruptions costs lots of time
Meeting creep, quick questions and context switching crush flow.