Gibberish Dot Com

The web home of Mike Sugarbaker

  1. Belatedly, a project

    I'm about to start what I guess I have to call season two of a messy, nerdy video project - messy enough that I had to change its name, and nerdy enough that I didn't initially want to mention it here. But it's still the creative project that fits best in …

  2. Software for interiority

    I learned the word from Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, I'm ashamed to say. But it's what's going on inside the head. How much software is left that has anything to do with that?

    Not business software, surely; that's all performance. Not image software or page layout; those are canvases, the things …

  3. The eternal stumble continues

    First, I don't judge myself, or any other web developer, for getting pulled into the single-page application way of building to begin with. We all said it resulted in better developer experience, and it did, for a while; we said it resulted in faster apps, and sometimes it did, but …

  4. Arc has been my default browser for two weeks

    I've been using web browsers, the kind you run on regular ol' computers, for... 29 and a half years? Let's call it 30. So forgive me if I think it's worth writing about when I switch to a new one. I switched my default from Firefox to Arc a couple …