Shooting Down Ideas Is Not a Skill
Criticism can prevent mistakes. It can never create value. Only ideas can do that. The two are not equal contributions, and most meetings get this backwards.
Scott Lawson
Writing about things I've built and what I learned from building them.
Latest posts
I Am a Cross-Cutting Concern
Everything I've built in the last decade lives in one repo. Not because the projects are related, but because I am.
The Hardest Part of a Raytracer Is Fitting It in Your Head
A raytracer evolves at the speed you can understand it, not the speed you can code it.
Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard
I spent years building one of the most popular LED strip visualizers on GitHub. It's the kind of project that's easy to get started but diabolically hard to master.
A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away
The simplest organization system I've tried is a sheet of colored dot stickers. It's also the best.