The Daily Report
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Valediction
When my mother was pregnant with my younger brother Pete, my father took her to see West Side Story in New York. My mom said every time the orchestra played, Pete kicked in her womb,…
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Twitter Blues
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have done over…
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About Pete
The world is losing one of the greatest musicians, rhythmic theorists, and just lovely and decent human beings ever to exist.
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Smells like victory
I love the smell of my neighbor’s weed in the morning. And afternoon. And evening. Seven days a week, God bless him. A grocery delivery guy dropping food at my apartment Thursday morning thought it…
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“A $44 billion version of MySpace.”
My longtime friend and former collaborative partner Craig Hockenberry bids a dignified adieu to Twitterific, Twitter, and his mom … and calls for a standards-based universal timeline. — The Shit Show
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A Cat Tale
First thing after her breakfast, Snow White climbed into a small, half-filled paper and cardboard recycling box.
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A Tale of Two Pools
One of these worlds is gone, and to the other, we will never return.
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I’m Here
All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual. In my youth, as I struggled with drugs, alcoholism, depression, and underemployment, it never…
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He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
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Education is its own privilege
When I think back to my college friends and me, what a beautiful bubble we lived in! Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t a fancy college—it was state school, and we were all from out…
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Walking Through Fear
The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox.
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Gender Bias and Reputation on Stack Overflow
…the platform exposes even beginner programmers to the gender-biases of technical communities.
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Fear of getting noticed
Back when I was in advertising, one of my team’s clients was a well-known Irish Airline. They could only afford an 1/8th-page ad in the travel section of the paper. But my partners and I…
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: artist Dan Licht
In 1999, I had the good fortune to work alongside Dan Licht at an NYC digital startup called SenseNet, RIP. Back then, although still in his early 20s, Dan was already an accomplished art director and digital…
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My First Job
I was a teenage telemarketer. Reading from a script, I attempted to raise money for St. Jude’s Hospital for Leukemia-Stricken Children. I was fired after three days for departing from the script. We were supposed…