This week
- Last week, the island of Cebu in The Philippines was hit with a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake. We were on a call with our friend and colleague, Nicole, when the earthquake happened and she had to rush to get to [ā¦]...
Last week
- I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank. Iāve had it for probably ten years. Every time I raise or lower that thing, it gets my blood pumping. I often think: āI should upgrade to one of those standing desks that goes up and down with the push of a...
- Sean Evans interviews Conan OBrien on Hot Ones I donāt know that much about Conan OBrien, but I definitely wasnāt expecting this. Conan is obviously putting on a show, and the unhingedness of the whole thing is very entertaining, but there are also these moments of truth that...
Two weeks ago
- US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting state pressure on the...
- Sometimes it is necessary to criticize both sides in an argument and challenge each to consider the other....
- I was reading Chase McCoyās article āAntibuildingsā where he cites Wikipediaās entry on the term āAntilibraryā which points to another entry about the Japanese concept of Tsundoku, all of which deal with this idea of things we do with intention but that never make it to...
- Just some bits and pieces that don't justify a whole post....
About a month ago
- The shift from curiosity-driven development to metric-focused creation is reshaping the software landscape. This article explores the implications of this cultural change and its impact on innovation....
- How can we design better platforms?...
- In no particular order, following no particular schedule. Just a few things that I recently liked and disliked. Letās go! Liked We shot a YouTube video about film formats on 35mm film. Incredible production, all shot on analogue film. This 22-minutes video must have been silly...
- Thereās a current trend about the positive effects of being bored. Two elements of boredom enhance your ability to think and create. Firstly, you get space. Weāre so busy these days that thereās no space anywhere. Weāre an overlapping infinity of saishimi-like tasks, and you...
- I really enjoyed watching Python: The Documentary (from CultRepo, formerly Honeypot, same makers as the TypeScript documentary). Personally, I donāt write much Python and am not involved in the broader Python community. That said, I love how this documentary covers a lot of the...
about 1 month ago
- We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has āthe best wordsā: I went to an Ivy League school. Iām very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words. The man knows words. Says so right there. While some might view his...
- I really love Jet Lag: The Game. Part of my Nebula subscription includes The Layover podcast, where the hosts discuss the show. In the off-season, the episodes are sometimes absurd takes on game shows. This weekās episode was one of those, and I got a kick out of it. Ben had...
about 2 months ago
- Suppose your job is to pick fruit in a giant orchard. The orchard covers several hills and valleys, and is big enough that youād need a few weeks to walk allā¦
- Ā© Nanako Kume š” Pencil Lampshades Nanako Kume is an artist that makes giant lampshades that look like pencil shavings. How do they do it? By making a giant pencil and giant pencil sharpener, of course! Donāt miss the video, the process is mesmerizing. Theyāre beautiful, and I...
- Back in the days when I did live talks, one of my abilities was to finish on time, even if my talk time was cut at the last moment (perhaps due to the prior speaker running over). The key to my ability to do this was to use Expansion Joints - parts of the talk that I'd...
- Exactly one year ago I was playing music with an amorphous super group consisting of all of my musical friends and family. The event was called Frostapalooza and was one of the best experiences of my life. It took a [ā¦]...
- In the middle of the night on the morning of July 4th, a storm parked over the Texas Hill Country and caused the Guadalupe river to rise more than 25 feet in two hours. 135 dead, including dozens of children from summer camps along the river. As a parent, this is the greatest...
- Jason Fried writes in his post āKnives and battleshipsā: Specific tools and familiar ingredients combined in different ratios, different molds, for different purposes. Like a baker working from the same tight set of pantry ingredients to make a hundred distinct recipes. You...
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