Titles of blog posts I might never write

…but maybe I will!

My tech writing these days follows DDD (Dopamine-Driven Development), which means that if you tell me what you want to read from me, I will be that much more likely to write it.

Without further ado, some things I could write right now¹:

Project write-ups² and tutorials

• Musidex | What I wanted was a Craigslist jukebox; what I got was a Rolodex. (Closing line: I still want a Craigslist jukebox.)
• Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastinating [EDIT 9/27/24: Written!]
• Making mixtapes for your youngest pals | Do you want to enable the song addictions of the small children in your life, to set them on a path towards music obsession, while potentially annoying the heck out of their parents? Of course you do! (This post is not sponsored by Yoto, but could be, should they choose… 👀)
• Small Tales | On building a bookshelf of your favorite reads, in miniature, for when you have limited bookshelf space or a limited book budget.
• Mobiles! For that new tiny human in your extended universe
• Easy inter-room trolling: OSX’s say, a bluetooth speaker, and you
• Quick and easy meme-making, for fun and no profit³ [EDIT 10/11/24: Written!]
• How do I do a creative coding?⁴
• Mix of the Month Clubs for the 2020s | Mixtapes are my love language, but no one has a cd player anymore (not to mention a disc drive, or a cassette player). What’s a fellow to do?
• Message in a bottle, or, the US Postal Service is way more fun than most people know it is
• Stabby McStabface: The joy of needlefelting memes
• From LiveJournal to tinylogger and beyond: My current writing workflow
• How should I know when there’s a new blog to read? | What the heck is RSS, and how do I make it work for me if I don’t consider myself tech saavy?
• The rest of the owl: My first experience with codecrafters

Feelings™ (tech and otherwise)

• Dopamine-Driven Development (DDD), Spite-Driven Development (SDD), and other DDs [EDIT 9/23/24: Written!]
• A batch at the Recurse Center: My antidote to burnout
• The Mike Ratio: A Bechdel test for the modern tech team
• Towards a Bechdel test for assessing a candidate employer⁵
• The Hannahspeak cheatsheet | The what/why/wherefore/emojis of the phrases I parrot, and why you might want to use them too
• The “just” flag flies true
• The 1-1 IC template for my future self (that I wish I’d been using all along)
• Niceties™: From third grade to the Recurse Center, and beyond

Right. Now that I’ve gotten this current list out of my head, maybe I’ll be able to pick one and just go for it….

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Footnotes

1. Not included: any hypothetical projects I have not yet done.↩︎

2. Also, this list only includes a few of the as-yet-undocumented projects from my backlog, but anything on that page is fair game for a DDD request.↩︎

3. This already exists in slide form from my batch at RC, so :just: needs to be edited appropriately.↩︎

4. Ditto↩︎

5. Why yes, the Bechdel test does play an oversized role in my consciousness, why do you ask? As does Bechdel herself and the musical incarnation of her memoir.↩︎

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• Created: 2024-09-18
• Last updated: 2024-10-11
• Type: Musing
• Tags: brainstorm, metawriting