The first time I came to Seattle and hung out at Glowforge I had no idea what I would make. It was somewhat revelatory to me to discover that making things wasn’t actually terrifying, and Dan and I made my Show & Hide necklace together (now my favourite accessory, as it represents so many things […]
I launched a thing. You can buy it for your iThing. Please upvote it on ProductHunt. What is the thing? It’s an image processing app. It allows you to make cool, partially colored images. It’s called Show & Hide. The longer and more personal story is: this has been a long term side project for me, and […]
I first “met” Dan a year ago, right after GHC last year. He reached out to me because of the stuff I’d been writing about men and male allies. We became twitter friends, and so I got to read a preview of his book – which is great, because I’d realized that Dan was someone I […]
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157651971644737″ align=”center”] I went back to Berlin to… tie up loose ends, I guess you could say. Mostly I worked and caught up with friends but I did have time for a little touristing in one of my favourite cities. Stayed at the Movenpick which was nice, and after discovering it was a twin […]
My notes from Chris Noessel‘s talk “Deconstructing Her” at Oredev. Movie is about a lovelorn fellow going through painful divorce at the same time he decides to upgrade his computer. Begins a relationship with the AI. Begins professionally, gets romantic. Try to consummate through a surrogate (awkward!) Eventually self-rapture to a new plane of existence. It’s […]
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157649871201681″ align=”center”] I went to Romania to Cluj, to speak at iOSNext. Being footloose and fancy free, I decided to stay on for a while after and see Bucharest, and try out AirBnB [referral link]. In Cluj, we stayed at the Golden Tulip hotel which was pretty nice. I arrived late and was […]
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157646984090244″ align=”center”] Copenhagen It’s always nice to return to a city I liked a second time, once I’ve been somewhere twice I’m sure I’ll end up there again. Copenhagen was one of my first solo trips, that was just to see the city and not for work or some activity of some sort. […]
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157646933039290″ align=”center”] I was in Hobart, Tasmania for PyCon AU which was really interesting. We didn’t have a lot of time for sightseeing, but we did manage to go to the Female Factory, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, MONA: Museum of Old and New Art. The Female Factory was fascinating, but horrifying. It was the jail […]
Life My week consisted of just work and the gym, but I had a wonderfully social weekend – my friend’s engagement party on a boat, brunch, and the V&A. Also managed to get in some Cate-time – gym, reading a novel, etc. Work Busy exhausting, but in a good way. I feel like my project […]
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157644472197926″ align=”center”] I went to Frankfurt for the Luminale, booked after I read about it on a design blog as I love light and electronics and digital art. Frankfurt isn’t the liveliest of cities, but I was really happy to have a break so used the time to go for a long walk […]