Episode 70: James McNeill Whistler, or How to Paint So Quietly the Critics Start Yelling
Whistler painted mood, sued a critic, won a farthing, and still changed modern art because of course he…
Friday Night Laughs — Do Gooders
Do gooders mean well, but somehow one clipboard, one signup sheet, and one tiny fundraiser can turn your Saturday into…
CS202 Episode 4: Refactoring and Code Smell, or How to Improve Code Without Setting Fire to the Part That Already Works
Old code still works, but every change makes it glare from the corner. Then one small refactor opens the drawer and…
How to Recover From a Water Leak Without Getting Hosed by the Insurance
Your house leaked, the floor is still wet, and the adjuster says it is fine. Here is how not to get hosed…
Episode 69: John Singer Sargent, or How to Paint Velvet So Hard It Files a Tax Return
He painted velvet, scandal, status, and side-eye so well that society needed a fainting couch…
May Review: The Month My Metrics Walked Into a Room and Forgot Why They Were There
May was a mixed little circus: Facebook showed life, TikTok kept sparking, Medium got more views but fewer reads, LumAIere.com dipped, and X acted like its analytics dashboard had been left alone with a fog machine. June brings more Artist series, more CS202, REST, PostCSS, and whatever else wanders into the lab looking interesting.
CS202 Episode 3: Error Handling and Defensive Programming, or Hope Is Not an Exception Strategy
Software does not fail because computers are emotional. It fails because reality keeps showing up with malformed input and…
Episode 68: Caspar David Friedrich, or How to Paint Fog So Dramatic It Needs Its Own Therapist
He painted fog, cliffs, ruins, and lonely figures so powerfully that nature became the main character and humanity became…
Friday Night Laughs: The In-laws, or How Marriage Comes With Bonus DLC You Cannot Uninstall
Marriage is beautiful, but then the in-laws arrive with opinions, casseroles, thermostat authority, and…
I Finally Killed the Cat
I deleted the cat videos that tanked my views, but the algorithm still looks mad and now I have questions…