Avalonstar

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Posts

A Reflection on My Time At VShojo

John Cena Destroyed Wrestling... Entrances

Between Authenticity and Performative Empathy

The Enshittification of Dribbble is Complete

What a Blog Represents

The Experience Fans Deserved

The End of Altair

IVS and the Psychology of Hope

What I'm Embarking On

Finding my Pride in Pride

A Single, Evolving World

On Big Brothers and Being "Dad"

A Career With Aphantasia

Subscriber Streams as Anxiety Remedies

Slides for the Back of the Room

The Graphs are Always Greener

My Ambition is Dead, Long Live Ambition

My Humanscale M8

On Removing Barriers to Writing

Don't Clobber The Web

On Fandoms and Analysis Paralysis

Super Hybrid Robots

A Weekend with Z Shell

Let TweetNest Accept JSON

On Foreman and Procfiles

Best. Year. Ever.

The Spirit of Giving

Asking the Right Questions

My Process is Circular

To Come Into Being

Rolling Your Own Honeyfund

On Weddings and Websites

Music & Morning Musume

The Ballad of the Takoneko

A Decade Comes With Some Celebration

Stuff Compensation

Rich Media Experiences™

"Objective" Assistance

The Re-Designer

Mimeo and the Kleptopus' Ringtones

A Year Too Early

For the Love of Ponies

Bowling into Retirement

Hello! Coda Slider

A First Time for Everything

The Power of the Mundane

High School Friends

Batteries Not Included

Bryan and Jen in Japan

"Geek" Motivation

2009 Design Predictions

2009? Bring It.

Archive for the Holidays

The First 30 Days

Revyver to be Acquired

Change and Withdrawal

"The Internet Revolution"

Twenty Twenty Two

The Web Framework for Ponies

"Smashed" into Apathy

Gotta Catch 'Em All

I Failed at Freelancing

The Addictionary

Mobile Assimilation

My 3G Day in Pictures

Can Haz Assimilation?

Birthdays and Test Tubes

The Story and State of Revyver

The Drafting Hand

Weather Center Live

Spring Cleaning

Blogging Visually

Django Plugables

Pixel Prostitution

Obsessive OS Rearranging

Sidebar Creative: Year Two

BASH-ing My Birthday

The Design Distortion

The Message is Distorted

Leaving Silicon For Seattle

Final Fantasy San Francisco

Revyver Grows By One

My Addiction to Rearranging

The Subject of Relevance

A Love-Money Relationship

An Overview of SXSW 2007

The Success That Was ABX

My J-Music Obsession

Perceived Inferiority

The 2006 Archive

The Road to SXSW

The Return of ChaoticSoul

Say Hello to Sidebar

A Slight Step Back

File (Re-)Organization

A 2006 Retrospect

A Fit of Absent Mindedness

Pressing for Change

Corporate Responsibility

A Swift (Design) Kick In the Ass

One Year Strong

Happy Halloween

Design Protection

Avalonstar's 6th Birthday

The Long Way Home

The Jam Session

For Those Wondering About bbPress

Ads Make Me Feel Dirty

Diary of a Linux Noob (Part 2)

It's Quite Hard to Explain

A Bit Oversimplistic?

You Have a Few Million?

A Stark Contrast

Feelin' Automattic

Flickr: All the Social Networking I Need

WebVisions 2006 Wrap Up

The Manila Folder Reminder System

Racing Beat Heaven

Logos of Times Gone By

Flock Gets a Makeover

GoDaddy Made Me Eat My Words

GoDaddy Backordering Sucks Ass

The New Online Identity

Fashionable Mail Icons

Updates or Lack Thereof

This is NOT a WordPress Theme

Diary of a Linux Noob (Part 1)

Never Talk to Techies About Consoles

Am I Condemning Myself?

That's 1,000 Companies to You, Mister

Say Hello to Aries

The Terror of Feed Readers

My Rules for Commenting

Funny What the Sun Can Do

How to Make Lumpia

Wishing for a Wash

My Rules for IMs

Introducing ChaoticSoul

The Vanity Plate Bit

The One With the Speech

CSS for Kittens

Don't Take Our Word For It

Bringing "The 101" Home

Tigers and Twenty Birthday Wishes

Blogging Isn't a Minute Gig

SXSWi Web Award Finalist

Thrifty, Enterprise and the "Under 25" Crowd

The Government's Common Sense Flag

Welcome Back DDR

Tagged to the Fourth

A Change of Pace

Google Pack (The Play)

The 2005 Archive

User Created Competition

"Getting Real" and Getting Real

Looking Ahead to 2006

How to Fill Out a W-4

The Aries Project

Fantasy and the Epic Battle

'Tis the Season to Take it Easy

Spreading the Knowledge

The Xbox 360 / Best Buy Fiasco

My Buddy List is Sacred

Google Analytics (The Play)

Live from the 101

Short Blog Posts

define:Avalonstar

Extending Your Reach

Hype, The Business Model

The 2004 Archive

Keep the Change

I Love My Readers

Facebook's Print Look

I Want My Life Back

Randomosity Reborn

The Volume Rule

Winners of the Birthday Bash

A Place We Call Home

Blogging While Intoxicated

The Evils of Reblogging

I Met Internet People

Ripping Apart LinkedIn

Advent Children

Monster is Dead

RSS: The Length Wars (Finale)

RSS: The Length Wars (Reprise)

A Friendly Contest Reminder

Facebook's Colophon

RSS: The Length Wars

The End of Week 1

Coding During the Graveyard Shift

The First 48 Hours

Wayback Follies

Avalonstar's 5th Birthday Bash

Good Night Peter Jennings

Wait in Utter Anxiousness

Kick Ass and Take Names

An Omen of Death?

The (mt) Reprise

Oh Crap, Books.

Stylegala and Semantics

Bryan Gets a Call

The (mt) Headquarters Mystery

Frantic Rush to the Finish

Totally Screwing with Myself

Back to Square One

Finally, Some Progress

Drastic Change in Priorities

Interviews and Sightseeing

Another One Bites the Dust

Staring Down Graduation

SWOT-ting Your Website

The Countdown's On Hold

Children of the Sea

Roommate Roundabout

Long Lost Cousin

What NOT to Wear

Jolly Green Bryan

Welcome Back Internet Bubble

Half My Diet is Chinese

Talking Outside the Box

The 50 Greatest Moments

Rain, Snow and Six Apart Buys LiveJournal

The Advent of 2005

I Found My Pony

The Firefox Family

Turkey Trip Time

In the Big Scheme of Things

Technology Overload

University Employment

My iPod is Chinese

Getting to Know You

Talk About "Owned"

Brown's Losing It

Time Management

Style Playground

Interview with Disengaged

Power of the Message

Escaping Designer's Block

Interview with Visually Infected

How Do You Critique Art?

Culture and Design