Past 7 days:
Karbon 16-year anniversary 🎉
15-year wedding anniversary 🎉
My mother started chemotherapy 💉
Kiddo with the flu 😷
Flat tire 🛞
Worked about 60 hours 🫠
Cranked out some terrific product requirements 😎
Played a little Marathon 🎮
Fuck cancer. Proud of my mom. Kiddo is feeling much better.
Yesterday, Bungie released their new game, Marathon. Having spent thousands of hours in Destiny and Destiny 2 in the past 10 years, I wrote a long post today about how I’m all-in on Marathon and hoping Bungie can make this game a success:
https://karbonbased.io/posts/2026/03/betting-on-bungie
Karbon Based — Betting on Bungie
Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.
Today’s our 15-year wedding anniversary. Last night I worked until 1AM when our son—who has the flu and feels terrible—woke up my wife, which made it impossible for her to fall back asleep. I didn’t fall asleep until 4AM. Now I’m downing espresso during meetings while my wife fails to nap. 15 years!
It’s 2026 and we’re back to Apple’s biggest display size being 27 inches. What a disappointment. I don’t understand why we’re permanently locked into the idea that 27 inches is the biggest a display needs to be.
Over the weekend, we celebrated Karbon’s 16-year anniversary. I wrote a little bit about this milestone and what a journey it has been:
https://karbonbased.io/posts/2026/03/sixteen
Karbon Based — Sixteen
Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.
Between helping them find a lost shoe near the slide or just ending up at the same restaurant down the street a table over, it was always fun to see their rapidly growing family and interact with James and his wife as fellow parents. I’m so sorry for his family to have to go on without him.
On a personal note, when we lived in LA we used to run into James and his wife at our favorite park, us with our kids and them with theirs, and they were both so tuned into their children. They had more kids than us even then, and I openly joked that I didn’t know how they were managing it.
Just saw the news about James Van Der Beek dying after his fight with colon cancer. So awful. My generation grew up watching Van Der Beek every week on Dawson’s Creek and talking about the episode around the cafeteria the next day. RIP.
Recently,
@gruber wrote a Daring Fireball post (in reply to a New Yorker article by Kyle Chayka) about something near and dear to my heart: “The Relief of Simple Software”. I wrote about how, nearly 22 years ago, this exact scenario became the catalyst for me writing my first native app, xPad for macOS:
https://karbonbased.io/posts/2026/01/textedit-and-the-relief-of-simple-software
Karbon Based — TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.
Hobbies I am currently putting effort into, when I have free time: Blogging again, photography, modeling for 3D printing, video editing and color correction, gaming, reading, restoring a few old Macs. The free time I end up having for these hobbies? Nearly zero.
