I worked at The Verge from October of 2011, just before the site launched, until August of 2015. I wore a lot of hats there, writing hundreds of short-form news stories and managing news shifts on both the east and west coasts. I also produced interviews, in-depth product stories and opinion pieces. Here are a few from the archives, and here’s my full list of stories on the site.

A superfan turned The Last of Us from a game into a beautiful TV series

Video game playthroughs are a dime a dozen, but Grant Voegtle’s work is something else entirely. Voegtle took hundreds of hours of gameplay from The Last of Us on the PlayStation 4 and made seven episodes that play like a TV series. Fun fact: after creating these videos, Voegtle got a job at Naughty Dog.

For more Last of Us goodness, I spoke with developer Naughty Dog about how it remastered the game for the PS4 and also talked to the creatives at Mondo on their vinyl soundtracks, including the score for The Last of Us.

Teenage Engineering makes a wireless speaker for serious adults

Teenage Engineering makes some fantastic and unusual products. The OD-11 speaker combined the smarts of a modern Sonos speaker with a design first created by Swedish audio engineer Stig Carlsson in the ‘70s. It’s a great example of how Teenage Engineering meshes retro-inspired designs with modern technology.

It might get weird: Why Dropbox employees are goofing around on company time

Back in 2014, I got a behind-the-scenes tour of Dropbox during the company’s annual hack week. The notion of a “hack week” is pretty commonplace, but Dropbox had been doing it for years, and seeing one on this scale was a good time. And it wasn’t just goofing off — historically, plenty of actual product improvements came out of weeks like this.

How Kevin Smith learned to love making movies again

All it took was turning Justin Long into a Walrus. As Smith’s Clerks turned 20, I spoke with the man about how his interest in making movies was re-ignited by getting weird:

"A lot of people go ‘make another Chasing Amy!’ and I'm like ‘I can't,’" he says with just the barest hint of frustration. "That [movie] came from a really bad place — a horrible place where I tried to get over shit. Now, I’m happy, and happy people don't make great art" — Smith pauses, arriving at his thesis statement — "but they can make weird art."

My lockdown: here’s what it was like living in Boston in April 2013

A personal essay and photo story about the week between the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, April 15th 2013 and suspect’s capture on Friday, April 19th.