I went to Joshua Tree National Park this weekend with Scott and Shanna for a short trip. It was my first time camping in the winter. It got down to 32F in the evening and Shanna drove through a snow storm on her way out. Luckily, the snow didn’t hit our part of the park.…
I realized I wanted to publish this before Election Day and feelings feel hard. I don’t know how this week will go and just want to say that, even if you aren’t deeply involved, it doesn’t mean issues and feelings can’t be deeply felt. The Hidden Brain podcast often provides me helpful ways to think…
I’ve been thinking about how I don’t need Instagram to have my ??Top Content??, but no solution yet except to post here and notify 4 people. Last year they went as Batbun and the bat signal.
My latest craft projects have been making amigurumi toys for new babies. A perfect quarantine activity. I really like to listen to a podcast and work through them, although they take much longer than they look. Every time I start I have a moment where I I can’t believe I am making each stitch of…
I worked on a distributed team before and had my doubts about going fully remote. It was a lot easier and nicer than I expected. That was two years ago. Now, teams that can work remotely are. After the initial churn, you may now even be in a routine. Do you like it? Do you…
My friend asked me for podcast recommendations and I sent over a whole Google doc of recommendations. I went through, updated it with some some harsh realities (do I really listen to this anymore?). I’ve organized them into 7 categories: Favorites, Stories, Psychology, News-ish, Fun facts, Series, and Comedy. I figure you might not like…
Accessibly when used in my work refers to making digital product equally available to everyone, regardless of disability. The usual story I tell about getting interested in accessibility was when I was assigned to make an app accessible during my internship. There was a short “how-to” presentation that mostly covered things like color contrast and…
Gas stations, fast food along the way, groceries, communal bathrooms, and problems with the tiny house you booked—in my excitement for a vacation, it didn’t occur to me how many people you see during a camping trip, especially to a national park. We had booked the trip months ago when there was hope that covid…
I was listening to a podcast today(actually a podcast introducing another podcast) and the narrator (who I adore, but who, much to my disappointment, my friends don’t like as well*) describes how he can take failure better than other people because he just always just adds them to his big ball of failure—that they all end…
More laughter because the last time I did this was in 2015. But listen, weary audience, sometimes you need to ease into stuff.
