This month I officially joined The Ambient Mafia. I’ve been spinning with them for the past few months, but our history goes back much further. We’ve all DJ’d together for a couple of decades with Stargaze and other social groups. I played three …

I’ve been using the Semplice theme for the last few years for this website. It’s intuitive and isn’t weighed down like most WordPress builders. An unintuitive part of Semplice is the custom grid system. It's not clear how padding settings work, so it's …

One Pencil! Easy Illustration Exercise Book Nozomi Kudo (2020) I was looking for a book to walk me through drawing icons and illustrations for my various projects and One Pencil fit the bill. The illustration styles are simple, friendly, and easy to follow. …

Whiteboards & Stickies is the most popular stickies project in the Figma community. The stickies look amazing and are built using auto-layout, but they didn't go so far as to use components, let alone variants. With Config coming soon, I decided to give …

The Ambient Mafia invited me back to play at Unison 7. This time the benefit was for the Asian Pacific Fund, whose mission is to strengthen the Asian and Pacific Islander community in the Bay Area. I was fortunate to be offered a …

This was my follow-up to my Winter Sesh mix. The tone this time is more positive and energetic, reflecting both the natural spring vibe, but also optimism as we're nearing the end of the COVID pandemic. It's almost all melodic house tracks. As …

Iconism: Designing Modern Icons and Pictograms Ginko Press, 2021 Very good variety of line weights, colors, and ideas.

I recently completed the high-fidelity designs for the Obvious MVP (minimally viable product). Most of my time was on finalizing abstract features like timers, multiple journals, and tags. I also had to embrace challenges native to Apple OSes, such as window sizes and …

This was my winter livestream on Twitch. The tracks are mostly progressive & melodic house, along with some organic house and indie dance / techno crossovers. I was going for a chill, Sunday afternoon winter vibe. I figured the end of February was …

The Ambient Mafia invited me to play at Unison 6. The two-day livestream was a benefit for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. Together we raised over $10k to help break the …