Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Last week, I had a user interview for Cushion.

The other week, I found myself in a spot where everything I wanted to do with Cushion started to feel overwhelming because there’s just so much to do.

This past week, I started performing user interviews for Cushion again.

I recently launched a Cushion feature that I’ve personally wanted for a while.

Now that I’ve gone independent after a 6+ year hiatus in the full-time world, I’m now freelancing again, which also means I’m actively using Cushion again.

“Quine” by Larva Labs A couple months ago, when I was first planning to go independent again, I ran into my friend, John Watkinson, on the walk home from my studio.

After 6+ years with a consistent salary and good healthcare, I’m taking the leap again.

Lately, I’ve felt the need to be proactive about cleaning up parts of Cushion that either no longer serve a purpose, slow the app down, or both.

In the last post about tables, I revisited all the tables I built for Cushion over the past 10 years and described both the tech and approach I used.

I normally wouldn’t write such a quick technical post with barely any story involved, but I spent an entire night trudging through outdated Stack Overflow answers, conflicting documentation, and surprisingly limited search results, then I stumbled upon th…