The Metagame.
Yesterday I released my latest game, Connect/Words, to the resounding sound of silence.
A Succinct Dictionary.
For the past few years, I've been writing and rewriting user interface (UI) code over top of the same client-service logic that I wrote aroundĀ five years ago.
First at coffee shops before and after work, and now full-time in-between whatever adventures come my way.
Since I've...
Writing software is not interesting.
Writing an original computer program ranks as the 3rd least attractive form of human creativity to a potential mate.
Microsoft employee #44995 has left the building.
So what do you do on the last day of an 18-year career at Microsoft?
Well, if you're me, you wipe your machines, visit Bill Gates' chunk of the Berlin Wall, grab another free lunch and some inspiration at a talk about Code for America,...
My Microsoft job is not interesting.
As you may have read, I have been summarily dismissed by my ex as "boring".
Well, I think I've discovered part of the problem.
This is a picture of me, corporate coding dweeb at Microsoft.
I stare at a screen, occasionally type in some gibberish, and try...