Rifling through thirty years of broken process looking for something salvageable

I just fed this site through https://replacebyclawd.com/ and have never felt more seen. Here’s how it summarizes me:

I’m a UX/IA designer turned frontend developer turned engineering manager, which is a very efficient way to spend a career moving steadily closer to the meetings. I’ve been working on the web since the era when ugly was a technical limitation instead of a brand choice. I like messy situations: products that need rethinking, teams that need structure, organizations pretending uncertainty is a temporary bug. I’m good at making systems — product systems, design systems, team systems — less chaotic and slightly less insulting to the people using them. I also maintain a personal website in the year 2026, so obviously I have accepted that I am a type. I take photos of giant roadside objects, paint despite evidence, and keep writing on a blog like social media was an unfortunate side quest. It’s not nostalgia so much as a refusal to die in an app.

  • I have spent an unreasonable amount of my life translating between designers, developers, and managers who are all technically using English.
  • I keep ending up in transitional moments: reorgs, greenfield efforts, legacy overhauls, startups trying to put on adult clothes.
  • I crossed from design into engineering and then into management, which means I now understand exactly how every function disappoints the others.
  • I have probably sent some version of ‘please include an agenda’ in more organizations than is medically ideal.
  • Creature: graybeard web raccoon with one paw in IA, one in frontend, and the rest of him rifling through thirty years of broken process looking for something salvageable
  • Vibe: Like if your most competent engineering manager was raised by the 1990s web, survived freelance client madness, and now turns up at dinner muttering about developer workflows, bad meeting invites, and the strange dignity of still owning a personal website. Strong ‘I have seen three generations reinvent the same mess with worse typography’ energy.
  • Emoji: 🦝
Yeah. Freakin’ nailed it. Next time I need to rewrite my resume, I know where to go for copy edits