The navigation for the third edition of The HTML Review is something else (on a big screen; it’s OK on a mobile, but nowhere near as cool). Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
It blows my mind that NASA has been able to debug the 46-year-old Voyager 1 probe from over 15 billion miles away. Equally mind-blowing is the fact that Voyager 2 is still operating normally. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
This is some next-level Star Wars + type nerdery from @louie and I’m here for it. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I can’t help but think that the world would be a nicer place if more people got involved in Joe’s kind of shenanigans. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
How could anyone possibly think that saying “we can sidebar post this call” is “more professional” (whatever that means) than “we can talk more about this later”? Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I love Molly White’s (@molly0xfff) take on AI in the latest edition of Citation Needed: When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can’t do the … | Continue reading
After reading Ethan Marcotte’s Blockin’ bots, I wanted to do something along the same lines; I already block all robots (search included!) in my robots.txt file, but as Ethan says, “…the one shortcoming of robots.txt is that it only works if visiting bots actually honor your robo … | Continue reading
I’ve wanted to post about that astoundingly ridiculous “unethical” comment regarding Marques Brownlee’s Humane Pin review that’s been making the rounds, but can’t bring myself to link to the dumpster fire where it was originally posted. Thankfully, Gruber has got it, along with B … | Continue reading
Joe’s post highlights a nuance re: my little tantrum about the way some (wannabe?) “thought leaders” write that I didn’t tease out in the original note. I should clarify: writing in short, punchy sentences sometimes can help emphasize a point; writing in short, punchy sentences a … | Continue reading
While primarily about the Humane AI Pin (which is rightly getting ripped apart as yet another techbro-ego-driven solution in search of a problem), this post by Benjamin Sandofsky (@sandofsky) has one of the best descriptions of VCs that I’ve ever read: While the people who manage … | Continue reading
Pub Choir (“you simply need to open your sound hole” 😆😆😆) is one of the Australian-est Australian things I have ever heard of. And their 18,812-person rendition of Africa by Toto (performed across 15 cities with 37 musical guests) is fully sick. Also, I ha … | Continue reading
It’s Marathon Monday… I still love watching the race, but after qualifying for Boston 2020 and then not getting to run, it still makes me feel a little sad, especially since my marathon days are likely done* after I broke myself training for NYC in 2021. (* If I’m being honest wi … | Continue reading
I’m on board with Louie Mantia here: “new” is not a synonym for “exciting” or “good.” Just because something is new doesn’t inherently mean it is better than something that already exists and that we should blindly accept and pursue it. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Dear “thought leaders,” Please stop writing posts like this. Where you make every sentence its own paragraph. To try and make your writing sound more insightful or profound. Than it really is. Thanks, Cam Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
✈️ DL434 ATL-LGA—it’s been a long (long!) week, and adding an hour flight delay to it isn’t what I was really hoping for. I’m reasonably sure I’ll be asleep before we push back from the gate. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
So yeah, it’s been quite a week. My apologies if you’ve tried emailing, texting, Slacking, or otherwise contacting me in a way that wasn’t walking up to me and beating me over the head with your message… I’ll try to get back to you (eventually). Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
✈️ DL409 LGA-ATL—heading back down to Georgia. I also remember why I used to dislike traveling for work on the weekend. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
The Ringer has a brilliant write up/making of Monument Valley for the tenth (tenth?!) anniversary of its release. …playing Monument Valley today only reveals its fundamental qualities more potently: its lucidity, charm, and deft, artisanal touch. I still go back and replay Monume … | Continue reading
Oh, wow. Anh Vn’s (@latte) new ‘version noir’ homepage is So. Freakin’. Good. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I just saw a Cybertruck IRL driving down Bleecker St. Ugly AF. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Aftershock? Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Whoa… was that an earthquake? Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but keep getting distracted: if you don’t subscribe to Manu’s People and Blogs, you probably should. It has been super interesting to get some background on a few blogs I already follow, and I’ve also picked up a number of additions to … | Continue reading
Forty-fucking-seven. Damn, dude. I’m at the point where it’s starting to stretch the truth to say that I’m in my mid-forties, which is more than a little weird to think about. Anyway, I’ve always enjoyed reading peoples’ birthday lists (Kevin Kelly, Ben Werdmuller, Matthias Ott, … | Continue reading
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. —Princess Leia Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I’m working my way through the Foundations of Humane Technology course from the Center for Humane Technology and can highly recommend it. I’ve been following their work for a while now, so I knew what to expect going in, but it’s still been a valuable learning experience and one … | Continue reading
There have been a ton of posts about the Chrome incognito settlement over the past couple of days; @gruber’s post about it on Daring Fireball captures the gist as well as any of them, but right off the bat, I can think of “a product… more purposefully misleadingly named”: Tesla’s … | Continue reading
Ethan Marcotte’s (@beep) thread on the closure of Amazon’s Just Walk Out stores contains a 100% accurate description of how Silicon Valley defines “innovation” (*insert animated gif of Inigo Montoya’s “you keep using that word…” line from The Princess Bride here*). Reply via emai … | Continue reading
Some more unsurprising news: as well as being the preferred channel for Nazis, Substack is making their platform even shittier for writers. (Via Kottke. Also, “speedrunning the enshittification curve” is one of the raddest turns of phrase I’ve encountered recently.) Reply via ema … | Continue reading
The only thing surprising about Tesla’s reputational dip is that it’s taken this long. Reuters spoke to five marketing, polling and car experts who said controversies surrounding Musk’s increasingly right-wing politics and public statements are weighing on Tesla’s brand and deman … | Continue reading
It’s been nearly a week since I switched back to Safari as my default browser, and I’m generally pretty happy with the decision. There are a couple of things I’d really love, though: a keyboard shortcut to copy the current tab’s URL (!!!), and launching profile windows as separat … | Continue reading
SigmaOS looks like a very Arc-esque browser, with vertical tabs (which I love) and WebKit as the rendering engine (which I also love), plus support for Chrome extensions (interesting). Unfortunately, like Arc, it’s also loaded down with a bunch of “AI” crap (which I don’t love). … | Continue reading
After having them show up in my Amazon recommendations, seeing them mentioned by several people I follow, and finally getting a strong endorsement from a couple of old high school friends in a group chat, I started reading Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries… they’re so good! I’ve re … | Continue reading
I can relate to this kind of disappointment, too. But sometimes it seems that having even the tiniest amount of respect or consideration for others is seen as being leftist, so 🤷🏻♂️. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
If anyone knows a way to create a keyboard shortcut for Safari to copy the current tab’s URL to the clipboard that doesn’t make one want to set one’s laptop alight and heave it out the nearest window, please do let me know. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Vale Daniel Kahneman. I found Thinking, Fast and Slow a bit of a laborious read, but Kahneman’s assessment of people was pretty spot-on: Dr. Kahneman took a dim view of people’s ability to think their way through a problem. “Many people are overconfident, prone to place too much … | Continue reading
Whoa… amazing! Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I think we can all agree that “model collapse” is just a euphemism for inbreeding. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Any person, organization, or movement who labels themselves “hyperrational” is, without exception, full of shit, the Effective Altruists foremost among them. This piece in WIRED tears the EA “philosophy” apart, but also has me questioning the value of aid programs in general. Whi … | Continue reading
I can’t think of a better description for what this artist does than analog ASCII art. Seriously mind-blowing! (Via Dense Discovery) Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I switched my default browser back to Safari this morning. While I really liked some of the things that the Arc team were doing (spaces and boosts especially), and the different take they have on how a browser can work, but I’m more than a little uncomfortable with their shift to … | Continue reading
Exactly: The SEC’s moves over the past 24 months should be a damn wake-up call. Innovation without accountability is not progress, it’s outright chaos. The days of the crypto Wild West are coming to an end, and frankly - that’s not a bad thing. For the “bullish” ones - regulation … | Continue reading
Hard to put my finger on exactly why, but dealing with teams + channels in Teams feels like way more work than dealing with workspaces + channels in Slack, when in reality, they’re more-or-less the same thing. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Over the weekend, I read a post by @mikehaynes (via @robb) that got me thinking again about webmentions and backfeed and federation (oh my!). As an aside and before reading any further, please note that this is not a “somebody is wrong on the internet” post; I am not stating that … | Continue reading
TIL that Guile from the Street Fighter video games is probably just someone with a Mercator projection head. (Via @200ok) Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I’ve had Stolen Focus by Johan Hari sitting in my ‘to read’ list for ages and I finally got around to starting it. I’m about a quarter way through and it’s brilliant, but I can’t decide whether I’m sad or angry or both. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Warning: massive time sink. I just lost a significant chunk of my morning coffee time scrolling through Design Spells. I’m a sucker for cool little design details, and this is basically nothing but cool little design details. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Jeez, WIRED… I had such high hopes when I read the headline The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Initial Prototypes Were ‘Chaos’, but rather than a cool story about how the crew at Nintendo came up with some ingenious, world-changing (Hyrule-changiong?) problem-solving appro … | Continue reading