Arthur Doler

@arthurdoler.com

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Avid international public speaker. Resigned & begrudging generalist developer. Mental health advocate & grappling with my own experience daily. Opinionated blowhard. Not secretly a goat. Lives in Omaha, NE. Works for Aviture.

Dr Forrester and TV's Frank from MST3k, shouting "Evil!" together.
A screenshot of a visual data workflow tool. The start and end blocks are named "༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ" - a kaomoji for "summoning". The middle block is named "Summon the Pain". The data workflow tool is Matillion, if you were curious.
An open card. The top half has a drawing - a row of overhead bins on an airplane. One of them is open, and has gravel, plants, fish, and a bubbling clam in it. The water isn't pouring out despite it being open. I'm standing in front of it, my arms wide, saying "I made a fishtank!" A shocked flight attendant is holding their hands to their head, replying "HOW?!" The bottom part has details about the flight and the text "Thanks for dealing with everything! Even the impossible."
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!"
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 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!"
The three pirate leaders from Monkey Island, chanting "Grog!"
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).
Screenshot of a Twitch achievement: "The empire business II: Stream for 500 hours total."
A black cat and an orange cat, at the end of a hallway, with glowing eyes
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".
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
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.
A female cardinal in a Burning Bush (the species, it's not on fire), looking absolutely miffed
A painting of Benjamin Franklin with the text "Benjamin Franklin: Seagull Architect" superimposed on it in an old-timey font
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
A notepad with some doodles on it - a house, some circuit trace-looking stuff, a shitty version of Hokusai's wave, a Yin/Yang orb in a stand, and a strange plant with eye-like buds dripping sap into a bowl
The paperback version of "Quiet" by Susan Cain, sitting on an airplane tray table.
A Sessionize-generated graphic congratulating me for being in the top 3% of most active speakers in 2025.
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.
A new, fresh lemon pig next to a shriveled, emaciated lemon pig. They both have tiny party hats on.
A lemon made up to look like a pig, with cloves for eyes, toothpicks for legs, and a penny in its mouth. It has a cocktail sword on one leg, a cocktail umbrella, and a tiny party hat
Some Emperor Penguins behind dirty glass
Screenshot from the pocketcasts app showing I listened to 24,232 minutes this year
Two pumpkins, carved with the scraping technique. One is a Metroid, and the other is a fox with a clock on its side and a couple diamonds surrounding it.
The opening screen of Bubble Bobble, but instead of the text reading "Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story! Let us make a journey to the cave of monsters! Good Luck!", the text has been changed to read "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters! Good Luck!"
The three members of Shonenknife rocking out at the recordBar in Kansas City
A selfie of me in a seat on a plane, looking singularly unexcited.
A spam LinkedIn message from Jack Welch Management Institute about their MBA in AI Leadership.
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"
The interior of the Antwerp Central train station
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"
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?"
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.
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."
The laminar flow fountain in A Terminal in Detroit's airport, DTW
A Sony Walkman mp3 player in my hand, work tiny googly eyes stuck on it.
Ryan Reynolds leaning against a wall, labeled "me giving mental health advice." Behind him is a car accident, with a car flipping through the air, labeled "my mental health".
The introduction/story screen from Bubble Bobble, except it says "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"
A LinkedIn notification reading "Happy 11 years at Aviture! Here's a free LinkedIn Learning course on Mindfulness Practices"
Meme of a scared-looking raccoon, with the text "Things are constantly happening and I would like for it to stop (please)"
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.
A comic, showing 4 people sitting around a conference room table, and one person standing next to a projector screen, which is showing a numbered list with indistinct text. The person standing is saying "I could go on and on about this. And I will. Get comfortable."
Two leak diverters in the same photo, right next to each other!
Another leak diverter draining into a bucket
There's a leak in the ceiling of a hallway which has damaged the material. There is a yellow plastic bag/funnel underneath the leak now, which has a tube that drains into a nearby bucket.
Art outside, underneath an NDC London flag. Central Hall Westminster is in the background
A page of A Pattern Language, where the relevant text is : "I conceive that land belongs for use to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless mem-bers are still unborn. -a Nigerian tribesman Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage-the countryside from which they came." This is followed by a picture of a fence with a "no trespassing" sign, with the caption *property is theft"
A seat back entertainment screen, with Cowboy Bebop the Movie available
A selfie of me in an airplane seat. I look extremely enthused.
A pile of Urban Shadows, Second Edition merchandise and books and miscellany
according to the pattern CITY COUNTRY FINGERS (3), there is a rather sharp division between city land and rural land. But at the ends of city fingers, where the country fingers open out, there is a need for an additional kind of structure. This structure has traditionally been the suburbs. But... The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
A photo of a book page which is about the spatial and population distribution of cities and towns in a region, and it's extremely opinionated about it!
A picture of a plane at gate b12 at DTW, taken through a window, where my reflection and the distinctive ceiling of DTW are also visible
Brandon Suponchick behind a laptop, giving a talk
A copy of "A Pattern Language", resting on a knee which is in an airplane seat.
An Aviture-branded Timbuk2 duffel, in front of a black laptop bag with a green emotional baggage tag (from Psychonauts). An Aviture-branded water bottle is balanced on top of the duffel.
An autogenerated image from Sessionize with my profile picture and the text "Congratulations, you are in the TOP 3% of most active speakers in the year 2024🎉"
A charcoal fire, burning orange, blue and green. A burning lemon pig can just barely be spotted at bottom left.
A desiccated, shriveled lemon which has been cut and augmented to resemble a pig, holding an umbrella, next to another lemon pig which is fresh and new and holding a sword