July 2nd, 2025

The Individualized Creator Economy

What I find interesting in this example is this trend towards, what I'm calling to myself the Individualized Creator Economy, or ICE for sure.

May 28th, 2025

Building Arc (in a few hours)

I wanted to write a blog post about some OpenCV stuff I did in Java using the Foreign Function & Memory API, but then realized, I didn't have a blog. I couldn't bare using some Javascript engine, so I built my own in Cursor. It's called Arc. This post is both about Arc, and the experience of building it in a few hours.

May 26th, 2025

My New Personal Site

I needed another blog post to show that Arc works, so here it is.

January 11th, 2019

Creating the Boom 💥 Emoji

The story of how we created the original boom emoji in 2012 for HipChat that eventually became global across Slack and other platforms.