Niniane's Blog

Should you list non-work-related interests in your resume?  Does it add flavor and make you stand out, or is it a distraction? My stance ...

Yesterday I gave advice to a former classmate about his resume.  Specifically: how to deal with a 5-year gap in work history. It made me ...

This is the longest I have gone between blog posts in the past 12 years.  I still jot down thoughts, six to twelve times every day, but in p...

Recently I had dinner with a colleague Raf from my old job on Microsoft Flight Simulator.  I told him how I felt that Microsoft had a less ...

me: do you know objective-C? aff: no. when i need to make mac changes, i just add square brackets until that shit compiles ... I f...

Aff baked this for me.  Yay!

Wow, it's 2016 and Microsoft is still throwing sexist GDC parties. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/19/microsoft-apologizes-fo...

It's been a fun week! We launched Evertoon . We were written up in Forbes , TechCrunch , Fortune . Users are making very creat...

Aff showed me this comic: We decided to have a contest to make up our own poems about our own lives.  His was based on the book Littl...

Recently I need to configure push notifications. I merrily fetched the encrypted certificate, to discover ... I don't have the private...

S: "In the midwest, we had basements in case of tornados." Me: "Here we worry about earthquakes.  At least with a tornado,...

I've only purchased one car in my life, 16 years ago.  I've been driving it ever since.   Nowadays people like to make comm...

I hate shopping using my corporeal body.  I'm very happy to shop online, and get a little thrill of anticipation once I've placed t...

A few months ago, I went to eat at NOMA with a few friends / former-colleagues from Minted.  NOMA was previously ranked the #1 restaurant i...

Christmas photos! Lavep hand-letterpressed this Christmas card!  It took him two evenings.  The text is a reference to how I like to w...

Earlier this month: Aff: "I'm going to get you a Playstation 4 and a bunch of games for Christmas.  What genre do you like?...

Last week (before anyone saw the new movie, so there are no spoilers): Me: "I have an issue with all the Star Wars movies.  They al...

My brother and I went on a cruise to the Galapagos! There were 17 guests onboard our cruise.  Christian was the bartender and waiter. ...

I watched this CG video of Bruce Lee again.  While I still love love love it, I see now how there's always a little trick that distrac...

My brother has been training all year to run a Tough Mudder.  It is a 10-mile race with 20+ obstacles like crawling through mud and over 10...