Designer, Web Dev, Consultant
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All the Anime I Watched in 2024
Few anime fans force themselves to watch regularly unless they write reviews for money. But I asked myself last year:…
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Simple WooCommerce Snippets to paste and modify
Rapidly augment your WooCommerce store through hooks and actions, little references in the source code that allow us to inject…
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GTD for Impulsive Creatives
As a solo business owner and avid volunteer, there’s a lot to keep tabs on. Here are my productivity methods.…
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Digital Marketing for Mortals
2024 is upon us, and I couldn’t be more excited about GIVING UP. I’m halfway through Four Thousand Weeks: Time…
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Forget Resolutions, Use Quarterly Goals
Hey, it’s that time again! That time when we scramble to choose a 2024 goal, make some blanket promises to…
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3 Lessons from the Death of TinyLetter
Let’s pour one out for the most endearing email newsletter platform. This morning, Mailchimp announced they’re closing TinyLetter forever… migrate…
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State of WordPress 6.4
Nerd Alert… If you couldn’t tell, I drink the WordPress koolaid. It’s missing some advanced features, but nothing that a…
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My Trusted Hosting Vendors
I’ve mentioned self-hosting in another post. The movement to supplant social media with personal blogs, coined POSSE (Publish on your…
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Branding Backwards
Branding is hard. It’s a subjective process for stakeholders, designers, everyone involved. Some companies pay a budget freelancer sub $500…
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That “Make it so” Energy
Hey, thanks for reading my blog. This is a personal one. This week marks 9 years since I started consulting…
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Getting Started with Mastodon
Twitter is no more. Its rotting corpse shambles along as X, and rumor is the whole thing is going subscription-only.…
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Surviving the death of Web 2.0
X neé Twitter, Reddit, Stack Exchange… Summer of 2023 was about digital watercooler destruction. Here’s some “light reading” that helped…
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Using Miro as a Content Calendar
I bet the sheer amount of content you gotta read, produce, and respond to daily feels overwhelming. Humans aren’t 24/7…
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WordPress is 20 – the mixed reality from a consultant’s perspective
Chicago’s anime fans circa 2006 had a problem. Some incredible Japanese films and cultural events were happening around the city,…
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Nearly 60 Freelancing Tips
I started a “One like = 1 tip” thread for #NationalFreelancersDay, which got buried and forgotten a week later. I’m…
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Return to the Blogosphere
Never in a million years did I plan to revive my blog. Here we are. Social media implosions aside, 2023…
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The Bebop Beat
I created a 50-episode Cowboy Bebop rewatch podcast with my friend Lauren! We dissected every episode, interviewed some high-profile guests, and critiqued the best and worst of Netflix’s live-action adaptation. Pretty sure this was all just a fever dream.
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Bit Bash Presents: Fabricade
In Fall 2018, we opted for a smaller “Bit Bash Presents” event in lieu of our huge festival due to…
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Kowai Nite Cosplay Fest
AnimeChicago co-hosted a Halloween shindig in 2017. Cosplayers, gamers, and party people came together to benefit the JASC. We had…
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Progression Mechanics
Event organizers from Progression Mechanics approached me to design an identity system for their new two-day conference. They needed an…
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Bit Bash
Starting in Spring 2014, a dozen people have been organizing regular indie videogame parties here in Chicago. I’m one of…
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Bit Bash Presents: Filthy Pixels
Bit Bash was back in Winter 2017 to warmly welcome our Train Jam guests to Chicago. We took over Bottom…
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Bit Bash 2017
Another Bit Bash! We were all on-board for the camp aesthetic months ago, and we finally made it happen! We…