All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

Heartwarming Megan Marie Myers Show at JoLa Cafe – Portland

If you’re in Portland, consider taking your children to the heartwarmingly beautiful show by localish artist Megan Marie Myers at the JoLa Cafe through July 22, 2016. As soon as you walk into JoLa, you’re touched by large format originals...

/ June 29, 2016
Zoe and Amazocalypse

The Road to Amazocalypse

I wanted to share some of Megan Marie Myer’s original sketches for Zoe and the Amazocalypse, our Kickstarter for an illustrated children’s book about the tech boom’s impacts on Seattle. She actually came up with the box monster concept used...

/ June 28, 2016
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Zoe and the Amazocalypse Search for Seattle’s Space Needle

The Space Needle’s gone missing beneath Seattle’s epic growth. Zoe goes searching for it and soon meets Amazocalypse and his dog Prime. Once Amazocalypse realizes the impacts of his actions, he decides to do everything he can to find the...

/ June 21, 2016

A New Mural at Herkimer Coffee, Phinney Ridge

Click to see the regular progress leading towards the final mural, now on Phinney Ridge at Herkimer Coffee:

/ June 16, 2016

The State of Journalism … Advertising

After visits like this, I’m not sure visitors would ever want to return again:

/ June 16, 2016

Practicing Media Queries and Breakpoints

I found this one pretty helpful: @media only life and (max-energy-level: 60%) and (-caffeine-ratio: 2) { .editorBossperson { available-to:false; visible-to:false; } }

/ June 16, 2016

25 Years Ago Today I Started at Microsoft and…

On June 3, 1991, I began my career at Microsoft. Today is also the one year anniversary of my brain surgery. Both have provided incredible experiences yet only one left me permanently scarred. For the first four years at Microsoft,...

/ June 3, 2016