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Sam Bleckley

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My name is Sam Bleckley. I’m a consulting software engineer, designer, and artist working out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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59 from 11 Apr 2010 to 21 Feb 2025
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2025 4

  1. The Consolation of Discernment
  2. The Inefficient Courtroom
  3. One Song in Your Musical Is Wrong
  4. Why I Rewrote a Century-Old Artist’s Anatomy Book

2024 6

  1. On Tools
  2. The Anatomist’s Fallacy
  3. Build a Laboratory
  4. AI in 2024: Eat the fruit, leave the rind
  5. AI in 2024: Making a Case
  6. AI in 2024: What Good is Bullshit?

2023 3

  1. Build a Product, Not a Chatbot
  2. Don't Fire Your Illustrator
  3. Garden Path Content

2022 3

  1. On the UI of Selecting Options
  2. On Inputting Numbers
  3. Unreal Work

2021 5

  1. Contributing in absentia
  2. Motivation and storytelling
  3. Maestro Syndrome
  4. Lateral Joins in Rails
  5. More of a Talker

2020 13

  1. Lab Notebooks
  2. On Trouser Pockets
  3. On Seeming Simple
  4. Not Worrying Much About Crates
  5. Worrying about the NPM ecosystem
  6. New, Longer-lasting Formula
  7. Burn-in and the Standup
  8. The Marketing-Driven MVP
  9. Opening Questions
  10. User interviews sell internal tools
  11. Agile and the Big Questions
  12. Group components by affordance
  13. Content children by interface, not class

2019 2

  1. Three Smooth Stones
  2. Responsibabble

2018 6

  1. The Web and The Point of Regard
  2. Software is an Omelette
  3. NASA’s Power of Ten, for javascript
  4. Crazy Bananas
  5. Undemanding, but Present
  6. Unjustifiable

2015 1

  1. Interaction Words

2014 3

  1. Moral Laws of Bodies
  2. Code Questions
  3. Black Ice

2013 5

  1. Sestina
  2. The Alphabet Alphabetized
  3. Alzhiemer’s and habits
  4. Non-hiring Practices
  5. On Good and Green

2012 1

  1. Christmas Wishes

2011 3

  1. The Church of Interruption
  2. The Burlington Cartoon
  3. The Role of Art

2010 4

  1. Rehearsal
  2. Morality Play III
  3. Pillows
  4. Phyrric Defeat