Hey, I'm Chris!

By day, I develop software. By night, I play music and make pictures. I also write about it all on my blog. I laugh all hours of the day. I live in Boulder, Colorado and love to make things.

Latest Music

A pleasant toy music box! A mobile app designed for playing with sound and learning melodies by ear. Playable on iOS, Android, and web.

An interactive short story to accompany the liquid drum and bass album. Playable in browser.

A tribute game to Animal Crossing. Story and design by my sister Jenn, web app and music by your's truly!

Austin Kleon Pocket Notebook: "The 'Deep Work' and '10,000 Hours' people have poisoned the creative mind with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time. Art is play. There's no way to tell what's deep or shallow until you play with the idea."
tags: writing, Austin Kleon, play
- July 13, 2025
Austin Kleon Typewriter Interview with Laura Lippman: "Be ruthlessly honest with yourself: Do you want to write or do you just want to publish? ...The perks of publishing are cotton-candy pleasures. Writing is where the real joy happens..."
tags: writing, Austin Kleon, process
- July 13, 2025
Zac Gorman Earthbound Comics: Looking back fondly on these lately.
tags: comics, webcomics
- July 7, 2025
Extra Ordinary Comics: Cutie-patootie comics by Li Chen. Just revisiting these after over a decade. Still a delight!
tags: comics, webcomics
- July 3, 2025
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wet Land: More gorgeous ambient music from Yoshimura. Favorite: Singing Stream (Spring Mix)
tags: music, ambient
- June 24, 2025