experience
I have failed my art
Memory prompts
Iconography
The scale of human experience
The downgrading of experience
There and not there
You leave with the art
Tetlock and the Taliban
The Helsinki Bus Station Theory
Seventeen Years
I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
The brag document
Eyes on the ground
The Right Tools for the Job
A representational tension
The teleology of tool-building
Urban form and grain
Software often feels inevitable
Software often feels inevitable because its backstory is often invisible. We click a download link, run an installer, and suddenly have a new tool to use. Yet this conceals years of human decisions, experiences, and constraints shaping software outcomes that are in no way pre-destined.