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Observable just released a brand new version.

My dad once bought a lawnmower off of Craigslist, because my family needed a new lawnmower.

Good news from the folks at Mapbox - they've revamped geojson.io using some of the bones of Placemark, which I open-sourced in 2024.

I'm feeling more repelled from software subscriptions recently, primarily for products that have their own proprietary data storage or formats.

If you're encoding some binary data as text, you have a lot of options.

An update since the last Effect devlog: I finally vanquished the last bits of neverthrow from the codebase and replaced them with Effect abstractions. neverthrow was great for what we used it for - I'd still use it on a simpler project, but Effect is a be…

I went on a run this morning and got the idea to write this, but Nolen and Robin and Robin again have written other, maybe better versions of it.

Back last year, I wrote Putting an untrusted layer of chatbot AI between you and the internet is an obvious disaster waiting to happen.

Zachary Kai, space fantasy writer and cool indie web maker, interviewed me for his 'Shelf Source' series about people who like to read books.

This is partly inspired by Chris Krycho's report on the 2026 Boston Marathon.