Michael Donohoe

Ask a developer how many side projects they have and you’ll get a number.

Not really.

I don’t want world peace or a stable functioning democracy.

You can usually identify a programmer at a party by asking for their opinion on date formats.

It’s a step toward a more direct, sustainable relationship with our audience.

I’ve been spending some time building a bookmarking service on ATProto and, as part of that, trying to understand how people think about lexicons and interoperability.

I don’t reach for these every day, but they fascinate me.

I learned to build websites on a Windows machine that had Homesite, Notepad.exe, and not much else.

This summer I took my first sabbatical.

Most people don’t spend time thinking about CSS selectors, and honestly, even most developers probably don’t have “favorites.”

Back in 2009, I submitted a project to The New York Times’s internal Tech Challenge: a demo called Times Now, later renamed to Times Wire.

In early 2012, I was living in Seattle.