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I pledge allegiance To the Flag Of the United States of America And to the Republic For which is stands One nation Indivisible With liberty And justice FOR ALL 🇺🇸

"Maple" is a narrative poem first published in 1923 in Robert Frost's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection "New Hampshire".

Preface I wrote this for my daughter.

I own a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright: the Goetsch–Winckler house, an early, pre-war Usonian built in 1940 for two women art professors located near Lansing, Michigan.

I have an external Google Home security camera, and on several occasions now I've received a notification that it's heard a carbon monoxide alarm.

It was just like any other Thursday afternoon... well, except that I had accidentally violated U.S. foreign trade sanctions and, in so doing, may have inadvertently sponsored terrorism.

I came across a blog last year from another technologist (I'm afraid I can't remember which one), and they had a really neat feature where appending .md to the URL would render the markdown version of the current page.

I've been Nate Meyer for two years.

U+1F968 is 🥨.

I firmly believe that 9/11 would have never happened if the turkey, rather than the bald eagle, was chosen as the national symbol of the United States, as was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin.

The site of the iconic "Bliss" image, photographed in January 1996 by Charles O'Rear.

I've created a GitHub repository which compiles all 435 full-resolution illustrations of John James Audubon's Birds of America for the purposes of education, research, and free and fair use.

Love them or hate them, standing desks are everywhere in tech.

With hyphens: auto, the browser is free to automatically break words at hyphenation points it thinks are appropriate[1]. p { text-align: justify; hyphens: auto; } Methinks we're going to be seeing a lot more text-align: justify as designers catch on

In 2021, Dropbox announced they were deprecating long-lived access tokens for developer apps.

This guide will walk you through the steps to automatically upload the daily NYT to your personal Dropbox account so that it can be synced with devices like the Ratta Supernote e-ink tablet.

In this guide, I will walk you through using Node and Nunjucks to create a minimal system for generating ultra-lightweight static microsites entirely from data hosted for free on Contentful.com—just like this one!

I've always been interested in architecture.

Update: Sophia passed away peacefully on October 16, 2025.

For our second anniversary, I created a my own crossword puzzle that looked exactly like a NY Times crossword puzzle, but loaded with Easter eggs.

My significant other and I are both bird lovers and huge fans of Wingspan, a delightfully nerdy and birdy boardgame designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and produced by Stonemaier Games.

Are you afraid you might sound like crap on Zoom but everyone's too polite to mention it?

I'm happy to announce the release of Electron Settings v4 🎉!

In this post I briefly explore the history of one of my favorite games: Wheeler-Dealer (a Monopoly-style board game), an overview of how the game is played, how I first discovered the game, and then deep dive into how to best strategically optimize…

Odopod, a digital agency I spent a few years at after college, has been the digital partner for the U.S. website for Hennessy Cognac since 2012.

A co-worker and I, familiar with redux-thunk, were interested in implementing a redux-like architecture for a project, but unfortunately native react hooks lack thunk support.

For the holidays in 2018, Will Shortz, crossword editor at The New York Times, challenged readers to be part of the NYT's special Puzzle Mania!

iterate is a utility function that allows for execution of asynchronous code in the iteratee, waiting for each iteration to finish before moving on.