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There's nothing glamorous about being a designer at a startup. It's a role that frequently values speed and pragmatism over going deep in the craft. It's not all big launches, viral tweets, building for happy paths, and clear-cut product requirements. However, it can be incredibly rewarding. The fun comes from being able to excel at learning new...

Please read this Stocketa article in a browser to see embedded Stocketa videos. It was March 2020, I was in New England when covid quarantine had just begun and I found myself much more homebound. In these situations I'm not one to just do nothing. I always have some sort of project or hobby to keep me busy, be it taking and editing photos,...

Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes This RSS feed only shows excerpts. Please visit the website for the original article as intended: Digital clutter

I started taking photography more seriously about a decade ago. I shot photos in RAW with increasingly higher megapixel cameras, spent a lot of time post-processing photos—see my 30K word post about building a custom Adobe Lightroom PC—and designed and built custom photo stories to share them. While I would go through the process of culling...

A lot has happened since I published my article on the open source decentralized social networking service Mastodon a few weeks ago. I saw a lot of interest in and discourse around that post that was great to see. Since then, a few notable things have happened that have caused Mastodon usage to spike yet again. Twitter unsurprisingly ended up...