twenty twenty two (brief retro)

What a year. I haven’t written a year-end retrospective in awhile, the last one was on 2018. But there is half an hour to go until the new year and I wanted to have something down for the books.

Too quick to say goodbye -- Perfume Series

Marie Kondo was right about a lot of things – you should let go of things that no longer bring you joy. But she didn’t count on short-sighted folks like me who were too preoccupied with the present grief to see a future where I could enjoy an object again.

Scents in 2022 -- Perfume Series

Some time ago, fellow technologist Sumana @brainwane kindly shared my series of blog posts about my personal experience with scent. I really enjoyed reading people’s comments, and thought it’d be fun to do an update on my relationship with scent, a good six years after I wrote the original series.

My teen heartbreak playlist from 2008

Love that you can see that Winamp, Photoshop, MSN messenger, and what’s probably ripped mp3s downloading were my desktop mainstays.

Rare implementations: Stained glass window

Wherein I try to reverse engineer a mysterious space-filling curve of unknown author from the 1960s.

Rare implementations: Sierpinski's curve

Yep, Sierpinski's curve, not the more famous triangle. It's a form of space-filling curve and is quite enjoyable to look at.

Rare implementations: Koch Snowflake Tessellation

Over the past 5 years messing around with generative art, I've worked on a handful of rarely seen recursive patterns. In this post, I talk about my personal obsession: the Koch snowflake tessellation.

A Personal History of Making Things