Mark Palfreeman
@mark.palf.io
👨💻 Web UI engineer
📸 Photo/video: https://palf.io/ig
🥁 Drums for Anna: https://spoti.fi/3G3KTS1
⭐ Hobbies: 🏞🥃🍷🏄♂️⚽
📍 Seattle-ish
👉 https://palf.io
📸 Photo/video: https://palf.io/ig
🥁 Drums for Anna: https://spoti.fi/3G3KTS1
⭐ Hobbies: 🏞🥃🍷🏄♂️⚽
📍 Seattle-ish
👉 https://palf.io
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Mark Palfreeman
@mark.palf.io
· Dec 21
Welcome to Best Attentions 👋
Calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection. Where does your attention go?
open.substack.com
🗣️ I'm off work for three weeks, so I did the next logical thing: start a Substack!
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
Reposted by Mark Palfreeman
✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...
The writer, the text and the audience
Meaning in art comes from more than the artifact.
hidde.blog
September 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...
Thanks again @cascadiajs.com for a friendly, quality conference. I've been publicly nonexistent for two years tending to our son's leukemia treatment, and it was nice to dip my toes back into the broader web industry in a small way.
Excited for next year 👋
#cascadiajs
Excited for next year 👋
#cascadiajs
September 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Thanks again @cascadiajs.com for a friendly, quality conference. I've been publicly nonexistent for two years tending to our son's leukemia treatment, and it was nice to dip my toes back into the broader web industry in a small way.
Excited for next year 👋
#cascadiajs
Excited for next year 👋
#cascadiajs
Our company @planningcenter.com just announced we're moving to 4-day work weeks in 2026 🙌🙏
www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-b...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-b...
Starting January 1 Planning Center will be moving to a 4-day work week!! | Jeff Berg
Starting January 1 Planning Center will be moving to a 4-day work week!!
Sure, we're excited about the extra days off. But this is really about creating something sustainable that helps our team do t...
www.linkedin.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Our company @planningcenter.com just announced we're moving to 4-day work weeks in 2026 🙌🙏
www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-b...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-b...
Two months ago, we made a video for my wife Anna's song "My Love," about her unwavering commitment to help our son walk through child cancer treatment. I love that we got familiar scenes at our very own @seattlechildrens.org 💛
🎥 Video: youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 "Frontline" album: found.ee/frontline
🎥 Video: youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 "Frontline" album: found.ee/frontline
Anna Palfreeman - My Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by Anna Palfreeman
youtu.be
July 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Two months ago, we made a video for my wife Anna's song "My Love," about her unwavering commitment to help our son walk through child cancer treatment. I love that we got familiar scenes at our very own @seattlechildrens.org 💛
🎥 Video: youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 "Frontline" album: found.ee/frontline
🎥 Video: youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 "Frontline" album: found.ee/frontline
Thank you Seattle's Child for writing an article about Anna's new "Frontline" album (and release show) this Friday 6/20!
www.seattleschild.com/anna-palfree...
www.seattleschild.com/anna-palfree...
Seattle songwriter finds her words for childhood cancer
Singer/songwriter and mom Anna Palfreeman is singing through cancer treatment—her son's. Her cathartic album,'Frontline," releases June 20.
www.seattleschild.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you Seattle's Child for writing an article about Anna's new "Frontline" album (and release show) this Friday 6/20!
www.seattleschild.com/anna-palfree...
www.seattleschild.com/anna-palfree...
🎤 CONCERT reminder: we're playing through Anna's "Frontline," an album processing our son's leukemia treatment 🎗️
Fremont Abbey, June 20 at 7:30
🎟️ TICKETS: lightcollectivepnw.ejoinme.org/frontlinetic...
Fremont Abbey, June 20 at 7:30
🎟️ TICKETS: lightcollectivepnw.ejoinme.org/frontlinetic...
May 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🎤 CONCERT reminder: we're playing through Anna's "Frontline," an album processing our son's leukemia treatment 🎗️
Fremont Abbey, June 20 at 7:30
🎟️ TICKETS: lightcollectivepnw.ejoinme.org/frontlinetic...
Fremont Abbey, June 20 at 7:30
🎟️ TICKETS: lightcollectivepnw.ejoinme.org/frontlinetic...
Anna's first song, "My Love," from a new album Frontline, is out now. We even made a video with footage from home and Seattle Children's Hospital, where Emerson is being treated for leukemia. I hope it helps anyone going through the unthinkable 🫶🎗️
🎵 song.link/i/1808909182
🎥 youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 song.link/i/1808909182
🎥 youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
My Love by Anna Palfreeman
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
song.link
May 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Anna's first song, "My Love," from a new album Frontline, is out now. We even made a video with footage from home and Seattle Children's Hospital, where Emerson is being treated for leukemia. I hope it helps anyone going through the unthinkable 🫶🎗️
🎵 song.link/i/1808909182
🎥 youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
🎵 song.link/i/1808909182
🎥 youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8
Committed to going snowboarding next Friday for the first time in ~3 years!
Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.
Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.
February 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Committed to going snowboarding next Friday for the first time in ~3 years!
Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.
Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.
📣 NEW blog post: "A year of childhood cancer: 10 lessons that changed me"
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
January 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
📣 NEW blog post: "A year of childhood cancer: 10 lessons that changed me"
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
🗣️ I'm off work for three weeks, so I did the next logical thing: start a Substack!
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
Welcome to Best Attentions 👋
Calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection. Where does your attention go?
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
🗣️ I'm off work for three weeks, so I did the next logical thing: start a Substack!
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection."
Read the intro post 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...
I'm officially off work until January 2, thanks in part to Washington FMLA. Time to reflect on a hell of a year.
No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video).
First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲
No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video).
First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲
December 11, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I'm officially off work until January 2, thanks in part to Washington FMLA. Time to reflect on a hell of a year.
No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video).
First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲
No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video).
First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲
I just got notified a USPS package got delivered 9 hours in the future, but I did just see Interstellar so I'm not really surprised.
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 PM
I just got notified a USPS package got delivered 9 hours in the future, but I did just see Interstellar so I'm not really surprised.
🤔 At what point can we graduate from the term "modern browsers"? What does that even mean?
December 10, 2024 at 5:04 PM
🤔 At what point can we graduate from the term "modern browsers"? What does that even mean?
"It is far more radical and dangerous to have hope than to live hemmed in by fear."
– Suleika Jaouad
– Suleika Jaouad
December 10, 2024 at 2:23 PM
"It is far more radical and dangerous to have hope than to live hemmed in by fear."
– Suleika Jaouad
– Suleika Jaouad
❓ Legitimately curious: how do you decide on social communities and content to interact with?
Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few.
What's your approach?
Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few.
What's your approach?
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
❓ Legitimately curious: how do you decide on social communities and content to interact with?
Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few.
What's your approach?
Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few.
What's your approach?
In a year orbiting around our 5-year-old son's leukemia treatment, today I'm acutely thankful for:
- Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life
- Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation
💛🎗️
- Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life
- Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation
💛🎗️
November 28, 2024 at 1:53 PM
In a year orbiting around our 5-year-old son's leukemia treatment, today I'm acutely thankful for:
- Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life
- Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation
💛🎗️
- Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life
- Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation
💛🎗️
Excited for December primarily to build holiday LEGO. I'm up to 5 sets and bought white bases for a lil village 🎅🏼🧝🏼♂️🎄🏡
November 15, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Excited for December primarily to build holiday LEGO. I'm up to 5 sets and bought white bases for a lil village 🎅🏼🧝🏼♂️🎄🏡
~15 years on Twitter, a stint on Bluesky, a year+ on Threads. I still gravitate back to these apps, though the fragmentation has killed a lot of value for me. Personally I have less to say, so it's becoming mindless consumption.
What keeps you here?
Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?
What keeps you here?
Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?
November 12, 2024 at 5:58 AM
~15 years on Twitter, a stint on Bluesky, a year+ on Threads. I still gravitate back to these apps, though the fragmentation has killed a lot of value for me. Personally I have less to say, so it's becoming mindless consumption.
What keeps you here?
Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?
What keeps you here?
Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?
I resisted this, but I may need to segment my social apps with a purpose instead of following everyone everywhere. Since the network effect was lost, it's been exhausting to know where to post and spend time.
- Bluesky: tech/web/career
- Threads: photo/video/creativity
- Twitter: stragglers
???
- Bluesky: tech/web/career
- Threads: photo/video/creativity
- Twitter: stragglers
???
November 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I resisted this, but I may need to segment my social apps with a purpose instead of following everyone everywhere. Since the network effect was lost, it's been exhausting to know where to post and spend time.
- Bluesky: tech/web/career
- Threads: photo/video/creativity
- Twitter: stragglers
???
- Bluesky: tech/web/career
- Threads: photo/video/creativity
- Twitter: stragglers
???
Ok, the summer 4-day weeks at my new job have been amazing:
1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff.
2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack *and* have fun.
1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff.
2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack *and* have fun.
June 27, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Ok, the summer 4-day weeks at my new job have been amazing:
1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff.
2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack *and* have fun.
1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff.
2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack *and* have fun.
Well, I think I have to quit Wordle now.
June 21, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Well, I think I have to quit Wordle now.
Someone at work mentioned Crash Test Dummies—
Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧
Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧
June 15, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Someone at work mentioned Crash Test Dummies—
Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧
Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧
I can't stop thinking about what we're trying to accomplish with our time and technology.
Convenience? Speed? Connection? Happiness? Play?
What makes you optimistic (or pessimistic) about where technology is heading?
Convenience? Speed? Connection? Happiness? Play?
What makes you optimistic (or pessimistic) about where technology is heading?
June 6, 2023 at 5:16 PM
I can't stop thinking about what we're trying to accomplish with our time and technology.
Convenience? Speed? Connection? Happiness? Play?
What makes you optimistic (or pessimistic) about where technology is heading?
Convenience? Speed? Connection? Happiness? Play?
What makes you optimistic (or pessimistic) about where technology is heading?
Reposted by Mark Palfreeman
every now and then, whoever is in charge of salt and vinegar flavour at the pringles factory, goes absolutely *rogue* with the seasoning
i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me
i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me
June 4, 2023 at 8:17 PM
every now and then, whoever is in charge of salt and vinegar flavour at the pringles factory, goes absolutely *rogue* with the seasoning
i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me
i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me
As a kid, I never owned a Gameboy or any console. Sometimes I played N64 Mario Kart and Tony Hawk at friends' houses.
Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘
Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘
June 3, 2023 at 7:53 PM
As a kid, I never owned a Gameboy or any console. Sometimes I played N64 Mario Kart and Tony Hawk at friends' houses.
Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘
Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘