Writing

Announcing the Return of the Half-Wit

Published: November 11, 2024

After a break of ... (checks notes... that can't be right...) ... a long time, I am returning to updating this thing. Really, it's not my fault. Well, it is. But not really. Being a relative neophyte to journaling, OK, a failed practitioner, but you see, while reaching for my coffee, I grabbed a cactus instead and it took a…

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Programming as Story-Telling

Published: August 15, 2014

I was recently talking with a non-programmer friend of mine about teaching our kids how to code. I told him about my long and winding road to loving programming. He told me that he just doesn’t get how anything so tedious as programming can hold anyone’s interest for more than 5 minutes. Visual design, on the other hand, he finds…

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