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A collection of 12 issues

2022

Year two of my experiment in creating sustainable income as an independent creator. I'm currently so optimistic and confident about how much better it's going to look next year that I have no shame about how bad it might look this year. Also continually surprised at my unwavering commitment to

How I build a digital project archive

In the spirit of 'document and share', here are some considerations for how I assemble an online collection of projects I've made since 2012. Why bother doing this? It's easy to forget what happened, and hard to re-create experiences as time passes. Files can also get lost, making it impossible

2021

After mentioning in my last birthday reflection how I wanted to avoid doing an end-of-year recap, I've decided to do an end-of-year recap… Ever since reading the Pinboard anniversary posts, I felt the urge to make one—the charts and odd commentary, uh, inspire me. So this will be less

Why I added text to my 'pure icon' site after eight years

Since 2013, I was using a website design with no visible words—icons only; it was an obsession with The icon is a promise and the perspective of words being 'limited' in expressing things. Eventually I added text available only to screenreaders, and thought it was interesting to have a

Evolution one

Since the first edition of Ephemerata, my intention was to share things that give a sense of my world and spur discussion, grouping them in a single digest to avoid overloading people with real-time messages. I still think there's value in sharing them (especially the music I find, as it

Going fully web

Why I stopped making iOS apps after twelve years.

Presenting 'wetware of writing and doing' at Tools for Thought Rocks

I talk often about my apps, but rarely about how I use them to make things happen. Going share some of my process on October 29th at Tools for Thought Rocks. ToolsForThought.Rocks October Meeting · Zoom · LumaTools for Thought Rocks! is a talk series about using computers as tools for

Rethinking analytics

A while ago, after years of being "analytics-free", I decided to try Plausible Analytics and I want to share what led me to start thinking differently. The original provocation was learning that Photopea, despite financial success as a one-person operation, earns most of its revenue from advertising and only four

Inner feedback loops

In preparing Tiny concert for a friend, I audio recorded myself playing guitar while singing and listened back to it immediately after. I tried to do this at least once per day and ended up with four or five sessions repeating this process with the same set of songs. I

Testing logic and interfaces

Automatically check that things are working as intended. Tutorial time section notes 00:00 Intro 00:39 Design Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talk 02:15 Part 1: logic 02:39 Add a function 09:12 Simple library OLSKHash 10:50 Complex library Zero Data Wrap 14:41 Part 2: