A pixel-art illustration of a glowing smartphone attached to a dirty, industrial factory assembly line, with hearts and thumbs-up icons being mechanically stamped out by heavy iron presses. March 21, 2026

Smash That Like

Why the Like button needs to die. Exploring how a simple microinteraction became the ultimate tool for capitalist extraction, and why true user experience demands we abandon boardroom metrics like "engagement."

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A pixel-art image of a designer in an Apple lab coat sleeping on his desk as a glass statue of the Apple logo is melting off the table and on to the floor. February 14, 2026

Liquid Glass Half Empty

How I view Apple's latest example of product decisions made in boardrooms and why logistics and marketing executives should not have the final say in forming the strategy of a technology company.

A pixel-art image of a nuclear blast, with the cast of Halt and Catch Fire on one side and people in hazmat suits on the other. February 1, 2026

Halt and Catch Chernobyl

Future generations will look back on the advent of social media and consumer AI very differently than we did when romanticising the personal computer boom in the '80s or the invention of the World Wide Web in the '90s.

A cartoonish image of a big red button that says "Deploy", set on a desk full of retro tech. January 28, 2026

World, meet BoBytes.

Welcome to the public internet version of my brain. Setting expectations for the future of the site, a peek under the hood at the site's tech, and why you shouldn't cite this blog in your thesis.

A pixelart image of a pirate ship sailing a digital ocean, surrounded by icons for Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Star Wars, Half-Life and Nirvana. March 19, 2013

Piracy was my shot at equality

An exploration of piracy and how by downloading the culture and software priced out of my reach, I hacked my way into a design career and a fluency in English that the state education system completely failed to provide.