Hummingbirds are Evil! Procrastination, Laziness and Play

I remember the first time I drew a face. It looked like this: I was sitting on the slope of a hill overlooking my house, together with my older cousin. It was a late summer afternoon: still warm, with the grass still golden, but slowly turning red, the air smelling like honey and beeswax. He drew first. I followed. That's how I draw faces now: I...

“Are you pondering what I’m pondering?” “I think so Brain, but I still don’t understand why commit messages would matter?” Unaired episode of Pinky and the Brain For reasons beyond the scope of this post, I spent a possibly unhealthy amount of time watching Pinky and the Brain as a kid. It wasn’t too bad. ORF, the main Austrian broadcaster also...

In this article I’ll be using Sit. as an excuse to talk about some wider ideas (motivation, mental health, iterative design processes). We’ll explain why it came about, but not how. In part 2 I’ll show you how to take an idea from a hunch into a working app. Stay tuned! Before you read on, open the app and check it out for yourself. It shouldn’t...

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Hi there! It's been a long time, I know. I took a break from work and started working on some small, personal projects (toys). One of those small projects is potato.horse where I keep all of my doodles, visual short stories and jokes. Check it out! However, this post is not about my break from work, other experiments, or the site itself. People...