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Here is something I am very excited about: James Hoffmann has finally figured out a way to do what he has been calling — for years — the “decaf project”.…

So, I read a story that put me in kind of a rant-y mood, and now I’m going to share it with you, my lovely readers. Lucky you! Okay, so…

Just a little something I shared to The Crazy Crowd Facebook Group today: A year or so ago I pulled my shoulder out by simply trying to reach around and…

Here is a link. As mentioned in the writeup, this database is still incomplete, in systemic ways that matter to the analysis. In particular, European metros show a diva effect…

This is blackly hilarious. Note I cannot confirm the actual veracity of any of the following. It could all be some sort of PR stunt such as for a SF…

I will say, of the timeline based social media services, Mastodon is still my favorite currently. That has a lot to do with having a great client to use it…

Summary: Reflecting on bell hooks’s imploring us to interrogate our hearts. We spoke as if we were shadows on that deck, shadows cast backward by some future fire of explosion.…

One of my favorite memories of working at InVision was my conversations with Kristin Hillery, a creative director leading brand and content. We talked about ideas for content and events that would…

We report at an untold time of the night: our expert talked about how it "smells like snow" while we were out yesterday. We thought that was a dubious statement.…

Poet Dana Gioia on the importance of beauty in our lives.

Roden Readers — The first memory I have of Enrique Allen is from the campus of Stanford. He had just graduated from the d.school and was teaching part-time. We were about…

("make LLMs play better with one weird trick")

An overview of what I have figured out about mechanical keyboards and my preferences.

Well, I’m happy to say that my daughter’s visit to the doctor today went well, and it’s nothing serious. The dizziness was caused by her inner ear. She also had…

🎮 Donut Country — You move a hole around and get things to fall down it. Very satisfying mechanic. The kid and I loved it. Except the story part, which…

Let me just share a short note here that my Electromagnetic Optics textbook is now available for pre-order, to be published in March 2025! The link to the IoP Publishing…

Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. This post introduces the idea of trying to…

Some of the very earliest typewriters sported piano keys, as did some later machines such as the Essick telegraph-typewriter which was introduced in the mid-1880s. Readers of this blog likely…

I realize, after 18 years as a part of it, that the rules of the food internet in the week before the American cooking superbowl we call Thanksgiving dictate that…

When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got curious and started clicking links.[1] I like to visit links. I am connoisseur…