The first morning it worked, I stood in my kitchen in Kitsilano holding a coffee I'd forgotten to drink. A voice I hadn't recorded was reading me the weather, the tides, and how many people were currently orbiting the Earth. It told me Live…
I said I'd build it. Last post I wrote, “That's the next build.” The Eat Watch on my wrist worked, but it was deaf. I logged meals in MyFatnessPal, then tapped the same calories into the watch by hand. I was the middleware. Two systems, no
The artwork came first. Lemmy Kilmister at a medieval loom, threading glowing data streams through wooden warp and weft, the Motorhead Snaggletooth materializing in the weave. I commissioned it before I'd written a line of code. Sometimes y…
Every morning my son and I walk to daycare through quiet streets. We have one rule, his rule: when we see a dog, we stop and we look. Some days we see the man with three St. Bernards. A woman with two Bernese Mountain Dogs. Last Friday she
I forgot the character for “horse” three times in one week. Not a complex character. Not some obscure radical buried in a classical text. 马. Six strokes. One of the first hundred you learn. I'd studied it, reviewed it, written it out by han…
I built MemoryDial in 2016 because the web kept lying to me. Not maliciously. Pages just changed. A headline rewrote itself between morning coffee and lunch. A price shifted overnight. A paragraph vanished like it never existed. I wanted a
The watch tells you to stop eating. No willpower required. Just a signal, like a fuel gauge. John Walker called it the Eat Watch. The AutoCAD founder wrote The Hacker's Diet in 1991. An engineer's approach to the body: treat it as a system.…
I was cooking dinner, logging as I went. I weighed the onion, chopped it, threw it into the pan, then opened MyFitnessPal. The first result had more fat than a stick of butter. I knew that was wrong. I spent the next five minutes hunting th…
MemoryDial began as a small project over a decade ago. It watched websites for changes, letting you track any part of any page and get notified when something shifted. The original version was built in 2011 and went through a few iterations…