About

Software designer based in San Francisco. Fifteen-plus years of experience building products, with stops at Twitter, Discord, and most recently Strava.

In a previous life, I wrote a how-to book about making jewelry out of unused computer components with Watson-Guptill, a Random House imprint. You can check it out on Amazon.

I've been featured on Workspace.xyz and Abstract's blog.

Lately

Reading

  • Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
    W. David Marx
  • Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
    Kara Swisher
  • Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
    Satoshi Yagisawa
  • Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
    Zoë Schiffer

Watching

  • America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
  • Bridgerton
  • Dandadan
  • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

At the movies

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
  • Beetlejuice
  • Chinatown
  • Dune

In manga

  • Chihayafuru
    Yuki Suetsugu
  • Dandadan
    Yukinobu Tatsu
  • My Hero Academia
    Kohei Horikoshi
  • One Piece
    Eiichiro Oda

Listening

  • Culture Study Podcast
    Anne Helen Peterson
  • Plain English with Derek Thompson
    Derek Thompson
  • Sixteenth Minute of Fame
    Jamie Loftus
  • Slow Burn: Biggie & Tupac
    Joel Anderson

Playing

  • Dance Dance Revolution A3

On YouTube

  • Asianometry
  • Chinese Cooking Demystified
  • Colleen's Manga Recs
  • Future Fiber
See all on /media →

Colophon

Built with Astro 6.1.6 and deployed to Cloudflare Pages via wrangler 4.82.2. Hand-coded; no CMS, no design framework.

Typography is Work Sans (from Google Fonts), with SF Mono for accents. Icons are Amicons.

The /media page reads from a single JSON file generated by an importer script; cover artwork is normalized through sharp, which also derives the average pixel color used for each cover's hover glow.

Tested with Vitest 4.1.8 and Playwright 1.60.0. Node >=22.12.0.

build bd820a1