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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

Here's some more modern Noodles just for you!

A border collie posing with a globe on his head. He looks disgruntled.

A stick figure holding a small table with a small tablecloth and a small lit candle on it. The table is connected to a strange-looking device that's resting on a border collie's head. The stick figure is saying "Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?"

A stick figure looking at their phone, dismissively saying "Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that's fine." to a border collie who's carrying a huge sign that reads "POST ABOUT UR DATING LIFE ON WORK SLACK"

A border collie looking confused at the math statement "P(A|B) = (P(B|A)*P(A)) / P(B)"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

The title slides are a better representation of skill since I don't always go hard on the individual slides, since they're on-screen for so little time, usually.

Title slide for "Digging into the Matrix: Practicing Code Archaeology". Me in a jungle, uncovering the idol from the beginning of the movie UHF.

Title slide for "Survival Under Fire: How to Stay Whole During Adversity". A person walking alone in a dark and dangerous woods full of glowing red eyes. Their only light is a world that's on fire.

Title slide for "Leadership and the Power of Regret: Turning Emotion into Action". A person with a bag of lemons, feeding them into a sausage grinder and making lemon sausages.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

This, but for drawing your own slides for talks. Here is a series of images of my slides over the years. Starting in 2017 and continuing until my most recent. Just get started. You'll get better as you go, even if you only build talks once or twice a year.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 12/09/2026

Some days I'm more sure than others that heaven exists.

A photo of a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich next to well done hashbrowns and a cup of coffee, on a diner table.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/09/2026

You can do it. Business Owl believes in your ability to Business.

A decorative owl wearing a human tie that is way too big for it and iridescent human sunglasses that are also way too big for it. But he makes it work.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 17/08/2026

We have lost the techniques of our ancestors; truly we are a fallen people

A blue Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies tin.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 06/08/2026

For reasons too complicated to explain, today I was watching a Price is Right episode from September 1984 off the Internet Archive. This is Pauline, one of the first four contestants, with her custom-made shirt. A bold choice, but... I respect it.

A woman at one of the The Price is Right podiums, wearing a teal sleeveless t-shirt with stenciled lettering that reads "Bob Barker's Private Duty Nurse".

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/06/2026

Here's the one for the actual flight over the Atlantic. I did four of these.

A stack of cards, open. On the left side is a drawing of me searching through an airplane galley. A flight attendant is standing next to me, shouting "Sir, it doesn't matter what you read on the Internet! I promise you, there's not a secret cheese wheel on every international KLM flight!" I reply, "You can't fool me! It's *here* and I'm going to *find* it!"

The right side has details about the flight and reads " The world's getting weirder; thanks for everything you do!"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 31/05/2026

Flying to Stockholm today. Did a card for the crew and they gave me a pair of wings and some snacks (not pictured, snacks).

A blank card with a drawing on the left and text on the right. The drawing on the left is of two people, one a flight attendant and one me in an Evel Kneivel outfit. The flight attendant says "I've asked the captain and he said FAA regulations prohibit him from 'doing a sick double loop-the-loop," even if one of the passengers "is totally ready for it." I reply, "What if we put it to a vote?" The flight attendant responds, "He said if you asked, to say 'My plane is not a #@&*$ democracy.' Now please take your seat." I reply, "Aww..."

The text on the right says "Thanks for getting us there safe and sound!" and has other identifying information about the date and flight.

A gin and tonic, with a Delta wing pin in front of it.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 02/05/2026

Did a warmup for all the slide drawing I have to do today, inspired by the real events that woke me up this morning.

A hairy woodpecker (the species) perched on a chimney vent on a roof, hammering at it. The chimney is emitting "DTF" in morse code. The woodpecker is thinking "I'm gonna get laaaaaiiiiid!!!!!" There's a human dressed in a blue hoodie and green cargo shorts (and no shoes) on the ground below the roof, throwing a clod of dirt at the woodpecker and angrily shouting "STOP BANGING MY HOUSE!"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 29/04/2026

For the first time ever, I did some "studies" of how I wanted to depict and lay out a certain slide in the new talk.

A yellow spiral notebook covered with doodles of two people shaking hands. In the first doodle, their wrists are joined by manacles. In most of the others, they are surrounded by a portal of some kind, with varying visual effects and magical sigils around the border. In most of the doodles, tentacles are emerging from the portal, or from nearby smaller portals. There's also a smaller sketch of a squid's tentacle (which it has 2 of, as opposed to its arms, which it has 8 of, which are what most people call tentacles).

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 27/04/2026

Lol. 500 hours of purestrain PowerPoint and Gimp content.

Screenshot of a Twitch achievement: "The empire business II: Stream for 500 hours total."

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 17/04/2026

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

A black cat and an orange cat, at the end of a hallway, with glowing eyes

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 14/04/2026

133 slides left on the Boredom-Driven Development talk. Here's some of today's output.

A drawing of a person at a buffet, picking out something bun-like while saying "A little of this and a little of that..." to themselves. Text on the right side says "Resume-Driven Development".

A drawing. On the left is a person carrying in a 20% wedge from offscreen. On the right are two people carrying out 80% of a circle that is labeled "MVP" but there is masking tape over that and the word "DONE" is written on the tape. A fourth person is standing between the other people, saying "We won't be needing THAT!" to the person carrying in the 20%.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 02/04/2026

Meeting doodles from yesterday.

Doodles on a yellow spiral notebook. Doodles include a ham, a croissant, some angular shapes and spirals, and a grass-roofed hut with chicken's legs

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 30/03/2026

I have started working on slides for the new talk (on Boredom-Driven Development). This is the first one I drew - slide 5 (of currently 187, which is Too Much Slides and I need to do another editing pass).

A stick figure human looking at a laptop showing their email, which is filled with emails about JIRA tickets. The open email is about a login button and the text reads "As a user, I want to click button and has log in to app."

The person is sighing, with a sweatdrop on their head.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 03/03/2026

She refuses to believe that she would not like it inside, that there is a cat in there, that there isn't even any food.

A female cardinal in a Burning Bush (the species, it's not on fire), looking absolutely miffed

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 17/02/2026

post your contextless photoshops

A photoshop of a scientific paper about walrus binocular vision, with the vision representation cones colored red and "who broke teh build - ill find u" shittily posted on top of the image

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 17/01/2026

Starting a new book on the plane back from Codemash. I expect to get a bit snarky at this one.

The paperback version of "Quiet" by Susan Cain, sitting on an airplane tray table.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 14/01/2026

As a general rule, I despise promoting myself. But I *am* proud of the speaking I do and the messages I create, and happy about the people I meet and the places I get to go Anyhow I made the top 3% of Sessionize speakers again this year.

A Sessionize-generated graphic congratulating me for being in the top 3% of most active speakers in 2025.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/01/2026

Lemon Pig 2024 gave up his watch with honor and was given a hero's funeral pyre.

A dessicated lemon pig burning in a charcoal grill fire. The pig is burning yellow but the rest of the charcoal burns with an eerie blue green flame.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/01/2026

Lemon Pig 2025 meets the old guard, Lemon Pig 2024. #lemonpig

A new, fresh lemon pig next to a shriveled, emaciated lemon pig. They both have tiny party hats on.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 18/12/2025

LOOK OUT POKEY, IT'S THE ITALIANS

Some Emperor Penguins behind dirty glass

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 10/12/2025

I spent 16 days 19 hours listening to podcasts this year, because I am broke-brained. pca.st #pocketcasts #playback2025

Screenshot from the pocketcasts app showing I listened to 24,232 minutes this year

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 08/10/2025

Need to work on a larger post about all the concerts I've been getting to see, but I have to break in and say that if you ever get the chance to see Shonenknife, you will *not regret it*.

The three members of Shonenknife rocking out at the recordBar in Kansas City

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 08/09/2025

Starting my journey to Copenhagen for the Copenhagen Developer Festival! Yes, I'm excited, my face just Looks Like That.

A selfie of me in a seat on a plane, looking singularly unexcited.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 08/07/2025

... so did they use AI to figure out who to send this LinkedIn message to? Because holy shit, you could not have found a more wrong person to spam about this "opportunity".

A spam LinkedIn message from Jack Welch Management Institute about their MBA in AI Leadership.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 20/06/2025

Google, you have been completely betrayed by the absolute fucking knobs that run you. Stop making the internet worse.

A Google search for ""AppConfigUrl" running locally", to which Google responds "These are results for "'AppConfig URL' running locally". Search instead for ""AppConfigUrl" running locally"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 25/05/2025

Fuck, I adore this building.

The interior of the Antwerp Central train station

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 03/04/2025

Jesus christ. What a time to be alive.

A screenshot of LinkedIn News with the following Top Stories: "Layoffs surge to near-record high", "A seismic economic moment", "Hershey buys LesserEvil for $750M", "Spotify touts AI ad tool", and "Companies count the cost of tariffs"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 03/04/2025

I used to think I understood Dada and surrealism. Then the world got very dumb very quickly (or exposed what was already there depending on your perspective). Now I realize I never understood at all. The only way to defuse a viral narrative is to reject narrative itself. (Credit to Bill Griffith)

The cartoon character Zippy the Pinhead, holding his finger up and saying his iconic phrase "Are we having fun yet?" except I've modified it to "Are we liberated yet?"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 01/04/2025

A coworker will often bake things for the office. Today, she made a pan of brown Es. Well played.

A baking sheet covered with a plastic lid sitting on a countertop. Next to it is an E cut out of brown construction paper which has been taken from the tray.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 29/03/2025

A Pattern Language out here going hard again. This book has been challenging to read - I agree with so much of it but so much of it seems outmoded, or at least impossible today. I'd love to have a chance to talk with the authors.

Cropped photo of a page in a book, reading "Just as an individual person dreams fantastic happenings to release the inner forces which cannot be encompassed by ordinary events, so too a city needs its dreams."

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 28/03/2025

Me: *am enjoying the fountain in DTW* My brain: Airports are comfortable for you and you enjoy travel because you are used to dissociating Me: ... ... ... FUCK.

The laminar flow fountain in A Terminal in Detroit's airport, DTW

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 26/03/2025

Inspired by a towel dispenser I saw in MSP in January, I have come to this trip prepared to spark small joys and cause small chaos.

A Sony Walkman mp3 player in my hand, work tiny googly eyes stuck on it.

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 05/03/2025

Are you kidding me right now, LinkedIn?!

A LinkedIn notification reading "Happy 11 years at Aviture! Here's a free LinkedIn Learning course on Mindfulness Practices"

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 05/02/2025

Hold the fucking phone, what?! How long has Lego had minifigs with prosthetic limbs?! This is awesome!

A minifig from the Natural History Museum, which is a woman with red hair, a pink blouse, and blue pants - but one leg has been replaced with a minifig version of a plate-spring prosthetic.

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