Hello,
I'm Michael Barrett.
This is a false mustache.
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What even is a website?
A short love-letter to INTDEV’s website followed by some thinking about what a website needs to be.
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Minimalism Club and some rambling thoughts about AI
Minimalism.club is a silly little conceptual art joke of a website that I released into the world over the weekend. The central premise is that it’s sort of funny that minimalism requires books, a documentary, a podcast, and many YouTube channels. Why not a club too?
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Cloudy Mexico
Rain followed us to Guadalajara. The city is mid-transformation. Construction and fresh concrete everywhere. The World Cup is reshaping the streets while protesters block the highways
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New work: The crows return to Venice in autumn
Meditating on time passing with crows.
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Bean Boy
My 4-year veggie anniversary passed last summer and I didn't even notice.
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Three shirts
On becoming a Brooks Brothers customer; a justification of my bougieness
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Oh no, I broke my poodle
My poodle remains stoic when faced with what must be terrible pain
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Marking the days – an artwork for Instagram
For the last quarter of the year, I’m turning my Instagram into a calendar.
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48 hours in Pittsburgh
Tagging along on a work trip to beautiful downtown Pittsburgh, just long enough to visit the Andy Warhol Museum
About
I grew up in Charlotte, NC. I attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After a brief stint painting murals and working in galleries, I earnd a Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. There, I began to experiment with web development, digital imaging, and large format printing.
After graduate school, I found my way to the west coast and into a software development career. My greatest expertise is in front-end engineering but I have also worked as a full-stack web developer and web service developerusing Java, C#, and Python. I have worked extensively with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and have worked with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
I prefer VisualStudio Code as my general purpose code editor on macOS. I prefer Procreate on the iPad for painting. I prefer Sketch on macOS for creating icons and graphics for the web. PixelmatorPro is pretty nice too.