Designer, developer, and occasional menace to machinery.
Seattle, WA • rockets • racing • code • art
A bit about me
I chase edges. Flying human-rated rockets from mission control, racing cars wheel to wheel, building games from scratch, working on chords late into the night… I’ve been learning by doing for years, and I still find myself in awe of the things people can create. I want to understand how things work, and make them work better. I write about what I’m learning along the way.
Really just a guy riding trails, writing code on a sunny porch, or wishing he was doing absolutely nothing on a lake somewhere with good company.
Currently into
books worth your time
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Show Your Work
Don’t have to read it all to get the message
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The Pragmatic Programmer
Coding is the closest thing I’ve found to magic, ever
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Clean Code
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The Checklist Manifesto
Read it. Checklists save lives.
Art Books
These books tell you the fundamentals, and challenge you to go out there and just do it.
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Visual Systems
Visual systems are humanity’s hidden architects — powerful, primal, and too often overlooked.
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Designing Brand Identity, 4th ed.
Fundamentals of logos and cohesive branding. Love this book; simply explained.
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How to See, How to Draw
You don’t need much more than this. And a lot of “just doing it.”
quotes to live by
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Common saying -
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The goal is to understand the magic.
paraphrased, Arthur C. Clarke -
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.
A League of Their Own -
Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
what I’m building
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Design
This website
On version 15 of the stylesheet. It combines my love for design and programming.
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Game
Rebellion Card Game
Single-player card game where you lead a band of rebels against waves of royals, capturing some along the way to a final castle showdown. Each run plays out differently.
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Fun
1974 Yamaha DT 360A
Classic 2-stroke enduro.
gear & tools
things i stopped thinking about because they just work
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Editor
VS Code
simple, extensible, works with everything
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Notes
Apple Notes
everything else gets in the way
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Sketching
printer paper
bad idea? crumple it. good idea? grab another sheet
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Desk
Jarvis standing desk
turns out I’m moving around constantly
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Bottle
Owala
i drink twice as much water now b/c the lid is that good
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Journal
Paper journal
writing makes me remember way more than typing