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Following the release of Fable in early June, I thought a fun Claude Design + Fable project would be creating a virtual version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Deck, a set of lateral thinking dilemmas I’ve long admired. I got started shortly before our brilliantly boneheaded government made the questionable move of taking away our access to Fable. So, let’s pause for hamstrings. Anyway, I was more interested in initial output than a process of refinement, and what follows is all the former and none of the latter. A documentation of the process, if you will. ...

Bad energy.

I love that I can have an idea, and because of agentic tools, shortly thereafter have a result. ...

What was I up to about 20 years ago? Thanks to the Web Design Museum, you, too, can be transported back to earlier days. ...

At the risk of turning my site into a clock blog… Would that really be so bad? 🤔 Anyway, more clocks! ...

Aren’t all designers moved by the display of time? A functional object with design potential that provides real-time feedback. What more could you ask for? When I started coding with ai, I built a lot of clocks in different styles as a repeatable excercise to help me learn the process. I didn’t spend too much time on any of them, but I was reasonably happy with the way this slide clock turned out on desktop (sadly, not mobile-friendly). ...

Some clocks I’m obsessed with. ...

Seattle vibes.

I’ve played music almost all of my life. Drums mostly, starting in the fifth grade. Little me, learning stick grips, sitting on the floor in front of a Slingerland practice pad, one-e-and-ah’ing away at rudiments. My parents bought me a drumset. Tama with Zildjans. Countless hours spent trying and failing to play along with The Police, Rush, so many others. I know our neighbors hated me for it. I played continuously through school. Marching band. Orchestra. Solo & Ensemble. ...

I’ve been running this site on Hugo for a while now. Static files, a GitHub repo, a GitHub Actions pipeline that deploys on push. Simple enough that I could mostly ignore it, which is exactly what I did for longer than I’d care to admit. The problem with “simple enough to ignore” is that you also ignore the stuff you actually want to do: post more, keep things tidy, tweak the small things that bother you but not enough to open terminal. ...