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Can it Creami?
The history and design of the ultimate ice cream machine
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March 2024

Architecting happiness
Working on home improvement projects
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February 2024

From thought to theme
Brainstorming yearly theme names
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September 2023

Do things fast
Why you should practice moving quickly
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July 2023

Coming into focus
Finally seeing myself as a runner and good engineer
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May 2023

Patterns, peach trees, and underground tunnels
Parallels between architecture and software design
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The app review experience from hell
Misadventures in working with Chrome extensions and Google OAuth
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April 2023

Rediscovering reading gems
Building the Recite Chrome extension
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January 2023

Holiday book gifting
How to recommend books so people will actually read them
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December 2022

Friends & fist-to-five
Making lightning-fast decisions about where to eat dinner
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Stacking PRs
How this technique levels up engineers
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September 2022

Outdated vs. complete
In defense of apps that don’t need updates
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