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When my brain goes on a little adventure

It me. What a funny (and accurate) way of describing the mental float during conversations when my ADHD is ramped up. This cracks me up! I feel like there should be some background sound effects with this. A nice animated parallax effect would finish it off. 🤪

Professionalism & Kerning

kern | kərn verb [with object] 1. (usually as noun kerning) adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed. • make (letters) overlap. 2. design (metal type) with a projecting part beyond the body or shank. When I saw this poorly kerned sign in a

Vicious Cycles - A Stop Animation Film

My brother recently sent me this video and reminded me how much we thought it was funny as kids. Turns out that film got me interested (for a while) in stop animation. I created a couple hours of stop animation shorts with my friends and brother. Too bad I don&

Mondays through the Eyes of ADHD

RayWenderlich.com Christmas Video

I'm an awful singer but decided to help out the RayWenderlich.com team with the annual Christmas video. Check out our excellent work. Original Post at RayWenderlich.com

How Not to Do Push Notifications

Not pictured: 10 more notifications below these.

Trump's Hair

I just realized today that Trump's hair reminds me of Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal.

Discing or Disking

I prefer discing. Why? Because I can.

Tater Tots Through Time

Every year at the Automattic Grand Meetup the entire company gets together in one place for a little over a week to work and have fun. Part of that meetup requires everyone to give a four minute flash talk on any subject. This year my coworker Carolyn Sonnek and I

Things With Wheels Flash Talk

Every year at Automattic we get together at what we call the Grand Meetup. Everyone is expected to give a four minute flash talk on any subject - literally any subject. Last year I described a funny story about a boss stealing my iPhone. This year I combined another funny

Stabby

I love the word "stabby". It typically means, if you're feeling stabby, that you would like to stab someone or something because of your current emotional state. Stabby can also describe the state of a thing - like "pairing bluetooth headsets is stabby" because

How I Got Well Played Revenge

Last fall I gave a four minute flash talk at our company meetup. Everyone is required to give one and it can be on any topic. I chose to tell a story about how I got revenge on my boss. [wpvideo k15SG13b]