Jeff Eaton
@eaton.fyi
Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, antifascism, and shitposting as a service.
My views do not represent those of my employer, no matter what they claim
My views do not represent those of my employer, no matter what they claim
oh my god
oh my world creating deity
oh my world creating deity
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
oh my god
oh my world creating deity
oh my world creating deity
When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…
only several thousand 80s nerds remember, etc etc
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
only several thousand 80s nerds remember, etc etc
getting ready to move to the next hot social media platform
October 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
getting ready to move to the next hot social media platform
Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.
September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.
The modern right loves retributive vigilante violence — stories of good, decent folks fucking up evildoers that “the law” couldn’t reach.
That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.
That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The modern right loves retributive vigilante violence — stories of good, decent folks fucking up evildoers that “the law” couldn’t reach.
That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.
That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.
never change, tracts from the 1950s
September 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
never change, tracts from the 1950s
i think the clearest indication of my patch's eventual influence was that years later, the rest of the core development team added a ticket for "travel back in time to kill eaton before he can write drupal_execute'
cruelly, this task was assigned to me
cruelly, this task was assigned to me
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
i think the clearest indication of my patch's eventual influence was that years later, the rest of the core development team added a ticket for "travel back in time to kill eaton before he can write drupal_execute'
cruelly, this task was assigned to me
cruelly, this task was assigned to me
evangelical deconstructors from the early aughts say WHAAAAAAT
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
evangelical deconstructors from the early aughts say WHAAAAAAT
okay, okay, not THAT ancient
July 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
okay, okay, not THAT ancient
90s comic books rolling in to claim credit
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
90s comic books rolling in to claim credit
For the blue folks who think the new “round up the mentally ill” exec order is a shame but only affects Those People, your regular reminder that taxonomies are just frozen opinion.
July 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
For the blue folks who think the new “round up the mentally ill” exec order is a shame but only affects Those People, your regular reminder that taxonomies are just frozen opinion.
Went to a really cool Hokusai exhibit at the local college with Catherine this weekend. It not only had a bunch of prints and stuff about his life, it had a whole room decorated as, uhhh, manga? Like. “Someone changed the shader on reality” decorated as manga.
July 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Went to a really cool Hokusai exhibit at the local college with Catherine this weekend. It not only had a bunch of prints and stuff about his life, it had a whole room decorated as, uhhh, manga? Like. “Someone changed the shader on reality” decorated as manga.
Oh, lord. Our Maddie was the same: adopted her and her brother when they were maybe a month or two?
16 years, we had that little goof.
Definitely understand that impulse to mourn even while she’s still present.
16 years, we had that little goof.
Definitely understand that impulse to mourn even while she’s still present.
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oh, lord. Our Maddie was the same: adopted her and her brother when they were maybe a month or two?
16 years, we had that little goof.
Definitely understand that impulse to mourn even while she’s still present.
16 years, we had that little goof.
Definitely understand that impulse to mourn even while she’s still present.
okay there is a lot going on right now, but also this little guy’s name is MISTER FRODO
June 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
okay there is a lot going on right now, but also this little guy’s name is MISTER FRODO
steel milspec EDC drinking straws, the only solution
May 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
steel milspec EDC drinking straws, the only solution
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll.
May 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll.
typescript node/esm monorepo with tests in a nutshell
May 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
typescript node/esm monorepo with tests in a nutshell
In tonight’s installment of “in-progress stuff I found in obscure folders i’d forgotten about,” I have to admit I’m stumped.
Probably for a Jordan Peterson joke.
Probably for a Jordan Peterson joke.
April 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
In tonight’s installment of “in-progress stuff I found in obscure folders i’d forgotten about,” I have to admit I’m stumped.
Probably for a Jordan Peterson joke.
Probably for a Jordan Peterson joke.