To put a backtick in a markdown code block, i.e. within backticks, you just add more backticks around your code block. Really this is more useful in the inline code blocks, for instance I can do conso…

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to finish a bird illustration. I’ve got loads of started-and-abandoned-for-being-shit ones from the last 7 months. I've been playing with different techniq…

Last week was terrible. We started with policy changes that felt simple, reasonable, and principled, and it blew things up internally in ways we never anticipated. David and I completely own the co…

Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly…

My nostalgia nodes love anything shoegaze-y dream pop this year, and some of the best new stuff is coming from the East. Having recently fallen for Seoul&rsquo…

If you follow the tech scene in any way, you will not have missed the ongoing self-immolation of the company Basecamp. First, if you want to read an in-depth overview of what happened, Casey Newton ha…

With the last remaining to-do on my list for the new invoice form, I tackle the flow for importing tracked time.…

A few weeks ago Honeypot.io asked me to answer a few questions about my career, and here is the video of my answers. 00:00 Introduction 00:31 What are your top tips for career advancement? 02:03 What…

Work on VIAL for Vaccinate The States continues. I talked about matching last week. I've been building more features to support figuring out if a newly detected location is already listed or not, with…

Just over a year ago I started tracking TILs, inspired by Josh Branchaud's collection. I've since published 148 TILs across 43 different topics. It's a great format! TIL stands for Today I Learned. Th…