Blog

Musings on engineering management, front-end development, design systems, work, life, music, and other topics of interest (to me).

• Simple Politics

  May 28, 2025

  My politics are not that complicated or extreme. I believe that genocide is bad. I believe that peace and compassion are good.

• Vehicles for Oppression and Cruelty

  March 29, 2025

  My entire life I've been disgusted by nationalism and its mouth-breathing, masturbatory cousin patriotism.

• Dude...

  January 26, 2025

  Not that guy, but that guy.

• The Public Gets What the Public Wants

  January 20, 2025

  You've made your bed, you better lie in it.

• Sick Senses

  January 15, 2025

  I can hear my silence loud and clear.

• How to Fall Asleep

  January 14, 2025

  Start with twenty long, slow, deep breaths.

• Anti-war Protest

  January 09, 2025

  You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers.

• The Invisible Work of a Manager

  September 18, 2024

  Shine a light on what you do and make time for breaks and exercise.

• Sick

  August 18, 2024

  Sleep forever.

• Weirdly Political

  August 02, 2024

  Snowflakes?

• Fuck a Flag

  July 16, 2024

  Single-issue voters have no vision for the future.

• Who Cares?

  June 06, 2024

  I like to light the fire.

• Joyous Rebellion

  June 05, 2024

  Hopeless aggression has been done to death.

• Liberty is a Social Construct

  June 04, 2024

  Liberty is meaningless if you don’t afford it to anyone but yourself.

• Working from the Hospital

  April 21, 2024

  I'm not one to just do nothing. So I figured I'd get some work done.

• One Year In

  April 10, 2024

  Still struggling after all this time

• Should We Really Be Bringing Our "Whole Selves" to Work?

  March 02, 2024

  There's a lot of talk about bringing your "whole self" to work. At it's core, the idea is admirable.

• I Wear a Lot of Hats

  February 03, 2024

  Because we are a small team with few resources, I not only manage the people on the team, but I also operate as the Tech Lead, the Project Manager, and the Product Manager.

• Favorite Releases of 2023

  January 10, 2024

  Mostly hardcore/punk, some Americana, a little hip-hop...

• All-in On Astro

  December 01, 2023

  After hearing the hype for some time now, I decided to finally dig in to Astro, the front-end web framework for content-focused websites.

• Utilizing AI

  November 24, 2023

  Where is the line between using AI to assist in writing a blog post and using AI to write a blog post for you?

• Performance Management for Beginners

  October 02, 2023

  What gets measured gets optimized for.

• Six Months In

  September 15, 2023

  Six months in and I have not written much about what it means to go from an individual contributor to an Engineering Manager. Likely, because I don't know that I really know.

• Weekly Work Journaling

  March 21, 2023

  The basic idea is that at the end of each week, you write down at a fairly high level what you accomplished that week with just enough detail...

• Engineering Management for Beginners

  March 09, 2023

  When faced with a new task or problem, I like to start by reading about it.

• Chronicling My Journey from Individual Contributor to Engineering Manager

  March 06, 2023

  I've recently accepted a position as a UX Engineering Manager after being an Individual Contributor at various companies for the last 10 years.