For someone who works in an old school, face to face sales job, and as someone who blogs daily, I’m pretty shy.

I started working with the public because I thought it would help with social anxiety. And it has in a lot of ways. Getting a bunch of reps in can make you good at pretty much anything.

It gets easier, but the critic in my head never leaves. He just gets easier to ignore. I still second guess myself and try to anticipate too many things that don’t really matter, but I’ve put myself in so many uncomfortable situations over the years that it becomes second nature to navigate.

Anxiety is like using nitrous to boost the speed of your car. It’s terrible for the engine, but it’ll get you across the finish line a lot quicker.

It’s being hyper-aware of every detail. It’s being hyper-aware of a lot of arbitrary outcomes,...

When I first started my Micro.blog site, I thought it’d be this anonymous little corner where I would post literally anything. Long rambling essays with sometimes polarizing opinions, rants, random things I’m into. Stories about life; dumb shit I’ve done over the years.

But the longer I was here, the more I realized this isn’t just some faceless message board. It’s an ecosystem full of intelligent people. People who, for the most part, agree on the basic fundamentals of life. Mostly left-leaning, kind, compassionate folks who all have one big thing in common: they love writing. Sometimes curating things they like. And they believe in the indie web. Or social web. Or open web. Whatever you wanna call it.

So while most of my circle is pretty liberal, I’m not sure everyone here would love reading about “things I like about LaVeyan Satanism,” random trauma dumps, or raw, unfiltered stories from when...

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound since it launched about a week ago. For $25, this is a killer Metroidvania adjacent game.

Super fluid and responsive controls. One thing that added to the difficulty on older games in the series was that classic, infuriatingly calculated movement. Every step and every swing of your sword had to be completely intentional or you’d get put in your place before you even have time to blink.

Ragebound plays more like an arcade platformer — high speed and much more forgiving.

Coming from The Game Kitchen, I expected this to be as impossibly difficult as Blasphemous but it’s actually pretty easy to pick up and play a little bit at a time.

Until you start getting to some of the tougher bosses, anyway. Those...

I like progressive web apps. They feel like this alternate reality between how smartphones evolved, and how they could’ve evolved. Looking at you, Firefox Phone (RIP).

We had a gnarly thunderstorm roll through Columbus yesterday and, I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure lightning struck one of the 5G towers behind where I work.

Liquid Glass reminds me so much of the HTC Sense UI from the old days of Android. Another way it just feels so nostalgic.

Update: I guess it reminds me a little bit of the older versions of iOS too 😅 didn’t dawn on me because I only used Android back then.

It’s like the full on UI version of when Microsoft upgraded the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper to 4k.

I just read an article on The Guardian about how the author traded their alcohol habit for THC seltzers.

I’ve gained about 70lbs since the start of COVID. Clearly it’s just a little healthy weight gain due to being locked inside for a couple weeks five years ago, right?

Digg.com closed beta rolled out today! The TestFlight and Android alpha came out a few weeks back, it’s nice to have a full on web version now, too.

From the announcement post:

While today’s launch means access for Groundbreakers, in the coming weeks, each of you will be receiving invites to bring new users onto Digg. We’ve made the decision for an invite-based rollout to ensure that the community’s growth is intentional and gives you the ability to curate who gets let into the door at this stage of the product lifecycle.

Awesome that Groundbreakers get some invites to send out. I’ll make a post when I get mine, if anyone want’s one let me know!

I used to watch a lot of Rick and Morty. One of my all-time favorite episodes is the one where a bunch of parasitic aliens get loose from Rick’s lab and he has to quarantine the house so they can’t escape and wreak havoc on the rest of the world.

It would’ve been a shitshow for humanity, because the aliens could shape-shift and insert false memories of themselves into your mind, so you’d never suspect a thing.

One of the most memorable of all these zany characters was Sleepy Gary.