Thomas Amador - Thomas Amador

Thomas yells orders to his crew while the ship is under attack with Kurt in the background.

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The Anomaly of the Stupid Backoff - Chapter 4

As the ship's systems begin catastrophically failing, the crew implements the professor's desperate third option—a risky quantum maneuver that could save them or destroy them all.

AI generated concept illustration of a man manipulating a hologram above a desk onboard a spaceship.

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The Anomaly of the Stupid Backoff - Chapter 3

As the entity aboard the ship grows stronger, TESS detects anomalous readings throughout the Stupid Backoff. The professor is forced to reveal the truth about his daughter and the artifact that changed her.

A middle-aged man with brown hair and mustache standing in the doorway of his cabin aboard a spaces

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The Anomaly of the Stupid Backoff - Chapter 2

Three days into their journey, strange malfunctions plague the Stupid Backoff. As the crew investigates, the professor's secretive behavior raises suspicions, and Luna's unusual behavior suggests something invisible is aboard.

An image of a huge circular space station with a small ship on it's hull in orbit around Saturn's moon, Titan.

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The Anomaly of the Stupid Backoff

A mysterious professor. A reluctant crew. And something ancient awakening in the darkness between stars. Seven light-years from Earth, the fate of humanity rests with the most unlikely of ships.

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Welcome to Draft Commit

An experiment in story creation

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Project Studio and the Pain

Joining the latest branch of Dave Gray's School of the Possible

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Why I joined The School of the Possible

Early this year I was laid off from the startup I joined in 2022. It was a seed stage startup and the founders were navigating a consumer landscape that AI was shifting under our feet on a daily basis, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected. However, it was also the

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I wonder how many times someone has updated their site with some variation of: I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been very busy. It's been a long time since I posted. I have been very busy and I have

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A product designer learning web development

I signed up for a Web Development Bootcamp on Udemy. Why? It's Steph Smith's fault.

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Breaking changes

Over the 2021 holiday break I am going to try using Tailwindcss on this site so some things may break.

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Small pieces

Small amounts of work added up over time can eventually add up to something significant. It's getting the system setup that supports a consistent habit that's tricky.

Post-it note sketch of boxes nested within boxes.

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Nested complexity

I feel stalled out right now. For the last two weeks, I have been working on getting a new layout for the site created in CSS now that I have a development environment that allows me to iterate quickly However, understanding how all of the CSS styles work together as