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glench.com

Glen Chiacchieri's personal website. Projects, insights, and joy.

Essays / personalGeneral

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40 from 8 Aug 2007 to 16 Aug 2025
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now and then
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personal blog
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2025 1

  1. Five Years of Burnout and Undiagnosed Chronic Illness

2023 1

  1. What Happened After I Quit Tech to Become a Therapist, Part 1 — Graduate School and Internship

2021 1

  1. ExtensionPay - Payments in browser extensions

2020 2

  1. Actual Town Names in Massachusetts
  2. RSS feed

2017 1

  1. Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist The story of an unusual career transition.

2016 3

  1. Exclamation Point Totem A wearable electronic exclamation point I fixed above my head to wear at Burning Man.
  2. Flame Graph Redesign A small visual redesign of a helpful programming visualization.
  3. Nonprogrammers Paper Redesign A visual redesign of computer science paper about how non-programmers like to think about programming concepts.

2015 4

  1. Marilyn Maloney A small interactive redesign of a program to modify images. How could programs be designed so that children can easily understand them?
  2. Mission Bit Web Programming Class My observations of a free after-school class I taught for public high school students in San Francisco.
  3. Fortune Telling with Laser-cut Emoji Tokens I gave unique emoji tokens as gifts at Burning Man.
  4. Trash Wagon Club A parody website for a company that delivers artisan trash to people's houses.

2014 1

  1. Humorous Sims Patch Notes My friend and I had a fun time coming up with fixes for hypothetical bugs in the Sims games.

2013 4

  1. Poetry Some non-autocompleted poems I've written over the years.
  2. Things I Made Before 2013 Art, album covers, shirts, custom Lego cars, tree ornaments, 3d-printed things, and more.
  3. How to do Asynchronous Callback Functions in Python A short code snippet.
  4. Photos A collection of the best photos I took from 2004-2013.

2012 1

  1. Jump! Pictures of me jumping, for reasons.

2010 1

  1. Doodles Just random doodles over the years.

2009 2

  1. Light Painting Having fun with long-exposure photographs.
  2. On The Other Side of the Mirror A collaborative month-long fiction and drawing project with my friend shoofle.

2007 2

  1. Lyttle Lytton Contest Winners I collected all of the Lyttle Lytton contest winning entries on one page.
  2. Theory on the Relative Temperature of Lesbians A scientific theory proven by Google Search results.

Undated 16

  1. Deep Listening at the Recurse Center Compassionate conversations with programmers trying to change their lives.
  2. Mindfulness and Purpose in Difficult Times Using mindfulness and purpose for emotional well-being in tough times.
  3. Laser Socks A sweaty game pointing toward a future computing medium.
  4. Eyes on the Prize How can media support a reader's active engagement? An interactive redesign of a documentary about America's Black civil rights era.
  5. Links from 2013 A collection of works that brought clarity to my initial research direction.
  6. Legible Mathematics Sketches of an interactive arithmetic for programming.
  7. URL Animations Animations in your URL bar. (Try it in Firefox for desktop.)
  8. Screamy Bird A game where you scream at your computer or mobile to make the bird flap. (Try it in Firefox.)
  9. Ninja Turtles Logo Generator Put in whatever words you want to make them look like the Ninja Turtles logo.
  10. Thomas the Tank Engine Halloween Costume A Halloween costume I made for a video chat.
  11. Poetry Autocompleter Automatic suggestions as you write poetry.
  12. Comic Comics made from 2006 to 2014. Many of these make no sense at all.
  13. PDQ Game A digital version of a physical card game about being the quickest to come up with words.
  14. Government 2.0 Random snarky suggestions for what "government 2.0" might be.
  15. Horse Horse.
  16. archive of glench.com from 2008 to 2018