Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.

The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.

Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.

I stumbled into Design Engineering. I didn’t set out to become one, but in a way I suppose I have always been one… I just couldn’t help myself. Good software can be created in organizations siloed by discipline, but it’s in that messy overlap of design, engineering, and other disciplines truly collaborating where great software is made.

The web was not designed for casual dopamine hits. It doesn’t try to keep you. Any single click may take you to an entirely different world with new possibilities.

On leaving Instagram—or, rather, Instagram leaving me. I’ve been spending time thinking about what it means to be “online”. We don’t really own anything we put online. There’s always an end-user license agreement between us and the person (or bot) on the other end of the screen.

A long-overdue update in my previous “/now” series. This update covers the launch of a standalone brand for my independent work—Interdiscipline—and the near-simultaneous loss of that independence. Awkward.

Originally published to my now-defunct Ello account, this piece recounts a personal experience with the hack of my Instagram account. I learned some things… think?