About view-source:

I'm M. Carter. I'm the CTO of Driver Digital, a boutique Shopify Plus agency that builds custom storefronts and other web-based apps for fashion and luxury brands. I've been building things for the web for about 18 years, which is long enough to have mass-deleted my early work and short enough that I'm still occasionally surprised (dismayed) by how something renders in Safari.

I'm also a writer. I've published essays and poetry in a variety of publications, and I've been writing publicly for longer than I've been writing code. The two practices are more related than they probably seem from the outside; both begin with the same discomfort, end with the same elated sense of achievement, and result years later in similar mild embarrassment.

This blog exists because I wanted to write things that didn't fit anywhere else. They weren't client-facing enough for Driver's blog, they were too tech-adjacent for my personal Substack, and they were too long for the team Slack. They tend to start with something I noticed while building things for clients or navigating agency life, and they tend to end up somewhere more general – questions about the narratives we become attached to, how we make meaning, about the future of work, and about cultivating embodied joy in an era in which I'm fairly confident screens are destroying my eyesight.

So: software engineering and web development, but not always, and not strictly for engineers and developers. If you're looking for tutorials, this is probably not it. If you care about where AI, digital products, and software may be going, and how, and why, and wtf rants, and coding-induced existential crises – that's more like it.

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