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The Tender Work of Feature Development

Let My Funeral Be Like a Party

A poem written 6th August, 2023

what it is to fly

A poem written 24th July 2023

Writing Something Small

Writing something small can be hard. I don't mean a tweet or a text but a Thing™ of some kind, something that's not a huge piece with a thesis for each section and a table of contents, but still has...

The song of a friend

(A poem from 29th Jan 2023)

Trying something new: NextJS + Supabase

Building MutualAidIndia.com with Gatsby, Airtable & Tailwind

Under the Hood 2.0: Rails, React

A quick run-down of how this site is built

Volunteer Project: The Blue Dawn Website

The Blue Dawn is a volunteer collective that connects Bahujan people with cast-aware mental health therapists.

Radiyr: If an RSS Reader Had a Baby with the Radio

Coming Out Again: Bisexual Edition

It was National Coming Out Day yesterday, so I'm coming out... again. And here's why.

My mixed feelings about Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I loved how the new Star Wars defied old tropes, weaved new themes about the Jedi and the Force, and had important, atypical character arcs, but I had some reservations...

On Obamacare, and Priorities

How Democrats Managed to Fuck Up the Gun Control Filibuster

It is making my stomach turn to have to say this, but I can't support using the terrorist watch list as our way of regulating guns. It's not just a little off, it's downright wrong.

Pramila Jayapal on Seattle's BLM protest at Bernie Sanders Campaign Event

Spelunking

Easy WhatsApp Shares

A quick how-to on easy WhatsApp sharing links

CanvassStarter

An app idea/concept, like KickStarter, but for your canvassing campaigns

Snoogle: For When You Totally Came Up With That First

Wanted: Conditional Formatting in Collaborative Text

Employr

Just a fictional/hypothetical app idea.

Under the Hood

From the Archives: How the Jekyll site was built

The Space Party

Hello World

From the Archives: How I built my first personal website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages