A snapshot of the shows, games, and shenanigans currently eating my brain — so when someone asks “what are you working on these days?” I have somewhere to point.
Gnome — my fast-GIF-sharing app — just landed on iOS. Same Gnome, pocket-sized: search, share, and (yes) create GIFs from anywhere. Tap a GIF, it’s on your clipboard, paste it wherever you were typing. Joke saved. World improved. From your phone now, too.
If you don’t already know the bit: Gnome indexes a GIF library and uses Apple’s built-in vision tech to read the text inside the GIFs, so you can search for “don’t call me Shirley” and actually find the Airplane GIF.
(Why “Gnome”? Because that’s how I pronounce the “G” in “GIF.”)
The original Gnome is a tiny Mac menubar app I built for the very specific problem of: I want to paste an animated GIF into Slack/Messages/email right now, and I do not want to open a browser to do it. Hit a keyboard shortcut, search a GIF, click it — clipboard, paste, done. It’s $7, unlocked forever.
Playhouse 22 in East Brunswick, NJ is putting up the Alanis Morissette / Diablo Cody musical — and I scored the role of the one adult guy in the cast: Steve Healy, the dad. It is the role I was born to play, in that I am also a dad.
The show is funny, heavy, beautiful, and has a soundtrack full of many bangers you already love. Come see it, then come find me in the lobby so that you can see exactly how much makeup I was wearing.
I’m on the roster at ComedySportz Jersey Shore in Ocean Grove, performing roughly twice a month. It’s short-form improv as a competitive sport — family-friendly, refereed, and (legally) the most fun you can have on a Saturday night for under $25.
I’m still actively working on Lex.Games and Cryptograms — those puzzles aren’t going to ship themselves — but the project that has me bouncing in my chair right now is my newest game, Tile & Error.
Swap tiles, build words, score big. There’s a steady stream of improvements in flight, and every one of them somehow makes the game more fun, which is a metric I am willing to defend in a court of law.