Saving My Marriage With Flutter and a Laser

Fun fact about this project… I spent over a year building it. I would get frustrated, put it down, then come back to it. Eventually I did finish it, but it sat on a shelf for months waiting for me to actually release the video.

I don’t know what held me back. I think I felt like the project was too silly and nobody would watch.

While it certainly didn’t go viral, as I type this it’s at 601 YouTube views… Which is around 600 more views than I expected it to get.

Being a geriatric Millennial, I miss the 90’s. There was so much optimism about tech back then. Now? Not so much. It used to be that the dumpster fire was contained to certain corners of the internet. Now it feels like the whole internet is a dumpster fire.

I refuse to quit believing that tech can be a force for good. I look at the cynicism surrounding AI, VR, and XR and it makes me sad. I agree that there’s a lot that could go wrong there, but each of those technologies holds so much potential.

I am both an optimist and a technologist. I remember the joy of trying AOL Instant Messenger for the first time. I remember building my first website out of raw HTML and a TABLE based layout. I remember a time before doomscrolling when we surfed the web.

In my own way I want to bring some of that back. I thought about making this entire website look like a Geocities page from 1997, but it’s not about aesthetics. It’s about hope.

I feel like the world could use a little hope right now.