Now, in mid '24 early '25...

1. Shortly after my previous update, I left my long term gig at Giphy. Without getting too into the details, about half of the company accepted (or obliged to accept) exit packages from Shutterstock (offered to everyone a year after Meta's forced divesture – wild ride!).

2. Rejoined forces working with Dark Igloo as a freelancer on a new secret crypto-meets-gaming client in the chess space. Had such a good time that I was wooed into moving over full time as director of design at Pixie Chess, working towards a beta release.

3. Lindsay & I just got married! In a beautifully named locale– Rainbow, California 🌈. Naturally, we/I got far too deeply invested in designing all of the collateral ourselves. Followed it up with a honeymoon exploring Costa Rica and have wound up with a huge backlog of footage to sift through and edit – more to come!

4. I got a bit burnt out on code after rushing to push this site last year and wound up forgetting to finish uploading content – gonna try to be better at that this year, and maybe actually announce that I made this new site at all 😅

5. Have been having fun quietly lurking around the omg.lol indie web community and falling down similarly related rabbit holes as I desperately try and find a replacement for old school social media and find a place on the internet as a 30-something.