Yeah I don't know, I thought it would be funny to start posting on LinkedIn. I have had Very Strong Opinions about web development since I started working in this industry, and I've historically gotten a lot of energy out of sharing these opinions with my colleagues, but I realized that I can get that same kind of hit from the professional social network. I find the tone of the average LinkedIn post insipid and detestable, and the general enthusiasm for AI over there bums me out so much, but maybe I can offer an alternative by just talking about how I feel and being kind of normal? And if it raises my status as an authority on crafting meaningful and thoughtful experiences on the web, that would also be cool.
I've made two posts so far, both specifically trying to be a little provocative while also saying something that I think is important and under-discussed in the industry. In both cases, the process of writing lead me to a conclusion I didn't expect to find, so this experiment might not be as disposable as I first expected. My first post got some surprisingly good feedback and I just posted my second a few minutes ago. I also just noticed that LinkedIn added an awful AI-generated "title" to my first post that is only visible while logged out lol, what a piece of shit
I finally published my photos from Japan which you might have already seen, and I'm also working on a big list of every project I've ever worked on which you probably haven't seen yet! I won't link to it from anywhere but here until it's a little more complete. Deciding on thumbnails for all these things is really hard, especially when so many of them are just text! I have used the term "Game" to define things that definitely aren't games because I don't think that, like, "Net art" as a category is going to be useful to anyone.
While collecting stuff for my Projects list, I scrolled alllllll the way back through my Tumblr. There's a lot of garbage in there crystalizing perhaps the most obnoxious phase of my life thus far, but I found a couple interesting things that I've been migrating over to my website. "Checking in to anything" still carries some intrigue for me, sixteen years later.
This weekend we are headed to Mexico City for a wedding and I need to practice my Spanish before we leave. Sometimes I have entire conversations in my head in what I think is accurate Spanish, but I always get too nervous to really try it out loud.