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Hi, my name’s Tanner. This is my blog.
2025
February
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Work Wishlist 2025
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Tools are the vehicle for education
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Ineffective Training
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Project vs Product Mindset
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Value in Isolation
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Prestigious Problems
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“How do I use you?”
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Alternative Explanations
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Write, Delete, Write Again
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Adobe Firefly Quirks
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Knowledge Plateau
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Kids found my old computers
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GFCI Outlets
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I’m not an expert, I just know how to get around
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Creative vs Obvious
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Impact, Fast and Slow
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Impact Is Not Value
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Impact Is Change
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Where will I be in 5, 10, 34 years?
January
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There Will Always Be People
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What’s the value of a highway?
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“What’s the value of what you’re working on?”
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Fixing Design Mistakes
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AirPods Randomly Connecting
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Where did my philosophy go?
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Mirrors for Performance
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How do you build community?
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Slow Down for AI
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Code Review Emojis
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Web components can’t override styles of slotted content
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“Just keep writing until they’re good”
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Muscle Translation
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Smart Doorbells Are Great
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Salt of the Earth
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Short Skis and Extreme Pogo
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Good Advice for Different Ages
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Who shares your knowledge?
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We Need Repeaters
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Speed Doesn’t Always Win
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Learn By Breaking
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Clearing Old Thoughts
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Perfect Articulation
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Prompt Punctuation
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Narrowband Interfaces
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Make Testing Cheap
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Fresh Instruments
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Insight vs Excellence
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Three Tiers of Performance
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How do you choose what to write about?
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Do I want to try again?
2024
April
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5G is trash (and I’m an idiot)
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“We did it, all by ourselves!”
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Capability and Clever Design
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Managing Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
March
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Looking Back 2023
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The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science
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The Shoemaker’s Children
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What they’re trying to say
February
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The Goldberg Rule
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Double-Barreled Questions
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The Kites and the Swans
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The Ass and the Grasshopper
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Hospitals and Laboratories
January
2023
December
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Reverse-Engineering Problem
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Tools for Assurance
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The Halting Problem
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Searching at Random
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macOS Sonoma Video Reactions
November
October
September
August
July
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Web of Beliefs
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Transcript “Merge Segments” New Behavior in Adobe Premiere v23.5.0
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DVD vs Streaming
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Statistically Extraordinary
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Why is my text blurry?
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Hard-Won Ignorance
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Notes
February
2022
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May
April
January
2021
April
January
2020
November
October
September
July
June
May
March
February
January
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Trod the Same Ground
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“Right” Is Temporary
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Deadlines & Laundry
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Smaller Amounts
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Take Notes
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Take Advantage of the Time
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Relax
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