by Sean | Mar 18, 2025 | Pajama Paychecks
I haven’t showered since Tuesday, and my bank account’s never looked better. Call it the Bathrobe Bonus—a revelation from three decades of web design that’s less about hygiene and more about hacking productivity in a terrycloth cocoon. Forget suits; my ratty robe’s...
by Sean | Mar 18, 2025 | Digital Dollars & Sense
Last spring, I got an email that started with “We can’t pay you, but…” and ended with my soul leaving my body. The client—a startup “visionary” with a vape pen and a logo sketched on a napkin—offered me “exposure” for a full site build. Exposure. As if 30 years of web...
by Sean | Mar 18, 2025 | Code & Coffee Chronicles
Picture this: it’s 11 p.m., my left hand’s clamped around a chipped mug of espresso so dark it could double as motor oil, and my right’s hammering out CSS like a pianist on a bender. The client—a boutique florist with a deadline tighter than their corsages—needed a...
by Sean | Mar 18, 2025 | Web Design Woes & Wins
Divs and I used to be tight. We’d align perfectly, nest like champs, and flex our way through any layout. Then, midway through a client’s “urgent” redesign last month, we hit the rocks. My code filed for separation, citing irreconcilable differences—apparently, I’d...
by Sean | Mar 18, 2025 | Old-Timer Riffs
I started designing websites when the internet was less a superhighway and more a dirt road with dial-up potholes. I started designing websites when the internet was less a superhighway and more a dirt road with dial-up potholes. Thirty years later, I’m still...
