If you’re here because you’ve just lost your radial nerve and you’re trying to figure out “what’s next” — I’m sorry. That genuinely sucks.

Eight years ago, with my left hand and my right index finger, I was Googling “severed radial nerve recovery”, “broken humerus nerve recovery”, and “how much does a new right hand cost on black market”. I got some personal videos, World War 2 stats on nerve growth (~1mm/day), and a few clinical studies that were, not inspiring.

Given the title of this post, I kinda spoiled the punchline… This post is what I wish I found then. So, here’s what happened, what I did about it, and how it turned out.

Over the Christmas & New Year break, I spent a bit of time reviewing and cleaning up my side projects. Fiddling with the DNS for my new projects forced me to inventory the domains I have registered. An update to my projects is long overdue, so this post can scratch that itch.

Good software is intuitive. Leveraging one’s pre-existing knowledge of the physical world can be useful for making a software application more comfortable for the user. More literature on that here. I’ve worked with IDEO on a few pieces of software and seen this physical pattern in their designs more than once:

When I look at that sketch; I see the designer’s intention and I think that arrangement of elements in a clump is natural, but what an unbearable pain it is to make that happen with HTML! There’s no magic CSS for display: in-a-pile;… until now!