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Nov 22, 2022 •

Generative art can seem like a new, flashy art form. But within the space of computers, it's been around for a while. The first works of computer…

Nov 1, 2022 •

September 2022

The real benefits of programming

The greatest benefits of programming computers come not from the products made or the renumeration received, but who you become as a result of…

Sep 14, 2022 •

July 2022

Not too comfortable

There's no feeling like when you first sit down on a train or plane after boarding. You've rushed and stressed to get to this point. Now, your job is…

Jul 1, 2022 •

May 2022

Learning from rap lyrics

Let's talk about rap. Below I write about some songs that have lyrics I think have something interesting to say. This isn’t a list of the classics of…

May 13, 2022 •

March 2022

What's missing in photos of presidents

Look at a photo of a president from the past couple decades working in their office. They're as pressured by technology as we are. Probably more so…

Mar 24, 2022 •

Getting my creative coding sketches printed and framed taught me the difference between doing things on the screen versus off of it. It goes like this…

Mar 5, 2022 •

February 2022

The sidewalk isn't straight

You don’t walk on the sidewalk. You dance over it. That’s because the sidewalk isn’t straight. It twists and turns, dips and winds. Mountains and…

Feb 11, 2022 •

January 2022

Software and life

After years of working as a software developer, I've noticed some similarities about how to make software that carry over outside the realm of ones and…

Jan 29, 2022 •

Sketch code on Github

I put the code for some of my sketches on Github. Hopefully they'll be of interest to someone interested in creative coding. Reading other people's…

Jan 13, 2022 •

December 2021

What I missed about deep work

Deep Work is one of the top five books I've read in the do-this-actionable-impact genre. I've revisited that book and read one of Newport's more recent…

Dec 30, 2021 •

A sketch of a church in Maipú

This creative coding sketch is my favorite out of the ones I've made. I took the photo while I was living in Chile. The building in the photo is the…

Dec 20, 2021 •

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