Letra Studio

Watched 16 December 2020 – 3 February 2021, rated 5 out of 5 stars This series has built so much, and gone so far.

Rewatched 14 January 2021, rated 3 out of 5 stars More exciting than I remembered, but still disappointing and, at best, inessential.

Robin Rendle: It bothers me that writers can’t create audiences on their own websites, with their own archives, and their own formats.

Played 4 September – 19 October 2020 on Game Boy Advance, rated 3 out of 5 stars There’s some interesting ideas and clever mechanics here, but I could never get past the clunky, sluggish controls.

Important content.

Super interesting new stuff from Cloudflare: Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale.

Played 23 July – 27 September 2020 on iPhone, rated 4 out of 5 stars In just a few short weeks, this game took me from sudoku dilettante to completing Sunday “Pro 💀” puzzles in 20 minutes without hints (if I’m feeling patient enough).

Will Schreiber: I haven’t installed MSFT Office on a machine since 2009.

Dave Rupert: I’ve thought about these questions for over a year and narrowed my feelings of browser diversity down to two major value propositions: Browser diversity keeps the Web deliberately slow Browser diversity fosters consensus and cooperation over…

Watched 3 September 2020, rated 2 out of 5 stars Gotta get over the bar Also posted on Letterboxd

Watched 26 August 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars A very cool sensorial experience, but emotionally shallow.

George Cave: Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business.

Adrianne Jeffries and Leon Yin look into how Google search gives preferential treatment to Google’s own results: In Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites.

I usually only keep one game on my phone at a time.

Watched 11 November 2019 – 2 June 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars My diagnosis: Rick and Morty has gone too meta.

Watched 11 May 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars Solid genre entertainment.

Played 23 December 2019 – 15 January 2020 on Nintendo Switch, rated 3 out of 5 stars It’s cool, but I’d rather just play Tetris.

Some welcome positivity from Rutger Bregman: For every antisocial jerk out there, there are thousands of doctors, cleaners and nurses working around the clock on our behalf.

A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth.

Watched 13 January – 9 March 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars First half was great: intriguing mystery and plot developments, great characters.

Played 12 January – 11 March 2020 on Nintendo Switch, rated 3 out of 5 stars I love me some Picross, but they really phoned it in with the UI and controls in this one.

Played 9 September – 23 December 2019 on Nintendo Switch, rated 5 out of 5 stars Not many games have rewarded me with such a deep sense of accomplishment.

Watched 8 March 2020, rated 2 out of 5 stars I’m glad women can use violence for good too, but this movie is… kinda basic?

Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth-packed score for ‘Uncut Gems.’

Lessons from the Screeplay: An action scene, just like any other scene, should help expose a character’s true self.

Watched 28 February 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars Put Awkwafina in every movie Also posted on Letterboxd

I guess this is worth posting.

Watched 10 February 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars Silly me, I thought this was going to be a film about famous automotive designer Carroll Shelby designing and building a car from scratch.

Watched 7 February 2020, rated 3 out of 5 stars This story has a point to make and the film certainly gets to it.

Watched 7 February 2020, rated 5 out of 5 stars The world feels a little different after watching Uncut Gems, and I don’t know that I can pay a bigger compliment to a work of art.

Watched 13 October 2019 – 7 February 2020, rated 5 out of 5 stars A perfect conclusion to the most wholesome show I’ve ever seen.

Ah, the irony.

Simon Weckert: 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another…

Frank Chimero writes about the design process for the header navigation on his personal site: You’d imagine that a seasoned and soured designer would side-step all of these complications whenever they could.

Da Shiji (达史纪) reports on the the Chinese government’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, and the current situation in Wuhan: Politics first.

Casey Johnston tries to come to terms with a problem that I, too, suffer from — if you’re trying to buy the right thing, there’s no longer any limit to the amount of work you can put into research: For a long time, our problem was there were not enough th…

Watched 16 January 2020, rated 2 out of 5 stars The most boring Black Mirror episode yet.

Watched 11 January 2020, rated 2 out of 5 stars This movie is so ugly i WANTED to cry blood Also posted on Letterboxd

Watched 8–9 January 2020, rated 5 out of 5 stars How can this show be both the funniest and saddest thing I’ve seen in a long time?

Watched 20–23 December 2019, rated 5 out of 5 stars “They shouldn’t have just locked him up.”

This is a great overview that truly puts the entire decade in perspective.

Chris O’Falt interviews Bong Joon Ho and production designer Lee Ha Jun about Parasite’s brilliant set design: According to Bong, the challenge he gave his “Snowpiercer” production designer was not only to create a believably “visually beautiful” set, but…

Watched 26 December 2019, rated 5 out of 5 stars People aren’t normal.

Watched 25 December 2019, rated 2 out of 5 stars So much plot, so little courage.

Played 20 December 2019 on Nintendo Switch, rated 3 out of 5 stars I wish I had been able to play this back in 2017, as it might have felt fresher.

Watched 19 December 2019, rated 5 out of 5 stars As entertaining as they come.

Watched 15 December 2019, rated 4 out of 5 stars It’s grotesque and unrelenting, careless with death and violence to a shocking degree.

I want to believe Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.

Anil Dash: And the ultimate triumph of being anti-web is to make links scarce.

Watched 5 December 2019, rated 3 out of 5 stars Very fun but not one for the ages.