Another overreaction to social media
I found this Atlantic article from Jonathan Haidt "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid" via Zeldman's link to it on BlueSky.…
Demos and building software for yourself
I found Mitchell Hashimoto's My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects via Simon Willison's link post. Man, everything in this post is golden. I think I agree with every word. This is definitely how I approach building software. I especially love the focus on getting to…
Happy New Year!
And so, the new year is upon us. Wow, what a year has it been. This past year saw my family settling into our second year in Atlanta. My younger daughter started her senior year of high school. It's hard to believe, but my wife and I are…
Grad School Didn't Work Out... This Quarter
Best laid plans and all. The intent was to go to grad school at SCAD here in Atlanta. I was thinking I would write, grow myself as a writer, and with MFA in hand, go teach when I'm done working as a software developer. Ha! Joke's…
Too Focused Updates for the First Week of September
It's been a little quiet here lately on my site. I want to say "I've been busy," but that's the lazy too-common excuse. I've been focused. There, that's it. I just finished up with a nice 5 day…
The Weight of Writing on the Web
Part of what I'm interested in exploring as I go to grad school at SCAD is writing on the web. Not just writing on the web – though I am interested in how creative writing on the web can itself be an object of art – but also, I'…
Going to Grad School at SCAD
I'm excited to share that I will be starting graduate school at SCAD this fall. I will be attending SCAD in Atlanta and pursuing an M.F.A. in Writing. I am very excited to be going back to grad school! I say "going back" because…
Where did the name Anderycks come from?
“Anderycks” is an online username or handle that I’ve been using for a few years now. It’s my social media username and my gamer tag. You can find me as @Anderycks on just about any platform. It seemed a natural thing to use the same name as my…