Once More (Sigh), Into The Starfield
About the time I liked a video game so much it got my post pulled down from Reddit.
David Demaree
Founder, Principal Design Engineer, and Lapsed Product Manager
I build web experiences & systems at Bits&Letters, the boutique digital agency I founded in 2024. Before B&L, for about a decade I led design-centric product teams at big companies including Google, Adobe, and Stripe, and before that I built websites and apps at agencies and in-house.
I’m a published author, international speaker, and TechCrunch once credited me with inventing the phrase “cognitive overhead.”
Latest additions to my blog
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Okay Doomer
What If… the last few years of the MCU had been heading toward Robert Downey, Jr. coming back all along, and it all didn’t feel so thirsty?
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A Poke In The Eye
About a week ago, I noticed mild, subtle blurriness in my vision in my right eye, like smudges on a camera lens. On Monday I went to my eye doctor about it; they saw what looked like hemorrhaging on the retina and said I should see a specialist ASAP. It’s never good news when a…
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Make the most of any monitor with BetterDisplay
I’ve been using a wonderful, mostly-free, open-source Mac utility called BetterDisplay, it has been a game-changer, and I recommend it super super highly. (I say mostly-free because, while most features are free, you can buy an optional pro license for $15 that unlocks everything.) macOS is way worse than Windows 11 at managing multiple displays,…