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Caribbean Blue Enya Pop Shepherd Moons was one of the very first CDs my parents bought.

Democracy Design Lab asked Sarah Mirk to adapt Hamilton Nolan’s essay, Confiscate Their Money.

After a lot of hemming and hawing, Emily and I started watching Widow’s Bay.

Home, Portland State Farmers Market, SE Division Street, and NW 23rd https://multiline.co/mment/2026/06/week-photos-23/

There are zero (0) bad tracks on Motor Songs, Bulgarian Cartrader’s genre-hopping album I purchased after just one listen, which boasts multiple contenders for Song of the Summer 2026 despite being released in 2022.

Laurelhurst Park, Portland Nursery, and SE Division Street https://multiline.co/mment/2026/05/week-photos-22/

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Shamefully, I still play the Spelling Bee from the New York Times.

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After starting at Panic back in 2012, I quickly learned that my then-coworker and now-pal James is a fountain of knowledge.

If you use Nova and you’d like to use GitHub’s styles for in-app Markdown previews, have I got the stylesheet for you!

I wouldn’t have guessed it but, looking back, it seems like April’s music was a pretty downtempo affair.

My dad used to ask this question that would drive me absolutely bananas.

The microtonal melodies of Angine de Poitrine spilled over from February into March, their polka-dotted dits and dahs making a seamless transition from winter to spring.

Our best gal Frankie — aka Frankie D., Kiki, Deedee, sister squirrel, mama pijama — turned seven on Wednesday, or thereabouts.

Live on KEXP Angine de Poitrine Microtonal Math Rock These two anonymous maniacs are just about all I listened to the first half of February.

A few weeks ago, Emily and I popped down to Mexico City for a little winter getaway.

I’m just a simple guy with a simple life, but giving an all-access pass to a vibe-coded bot riddled to the core with security holes, all so you can… text it to text a question to your family for you?

Sorrow The National indie As I recall it was Pat whose tweet, years ago now, introduced me to A Lot of Sorrow: an uninterrupted concert tape of The National performing their song Sorrow in front of a live audience […] for six hours straight.

I’ve had this site up on the blocks again lately, focusing mostly on ways to remove friction from my editing experience (EX®).

Caren Litherland, on Mastodon: Links are lateral and expansive.

..THUS IS WHY ( I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE ) Saya Gray indie The opening track off Saya Gray’s album SAYA caught my ear right as the year came to a close, making a buzzer-beating appearance on the shortlist of music I really enjoyed in 2025.

For your slow-motion enjoyment, a hummingbird stopping by our kitchen window on a rainy winter afternoon in Portland. https://multiline.co/mment/2025/12/lookin-out-my-back-door/

Janus Rose for 404 Media, on physical media vs. ubiquitous, on-demand “content”: What if there’s no ethical way to have unlimited access to every book, film, and record ever created?

What a year (derogatory).

If you need to constrain one function parameter by the type of another — for example, ensuring that getProperty’s key parameter exists on obj — TypeScript’s documentation demonstrates the following approach using generics: function getProperty<Type, Key e…

I’m an anxious guy by nature.

I love this bit by Kaleb Horton: They’re such a pest, and the worst part is you have to respect it.

If you have multiple email addresses associated with your GitHub account, you may want notifications for a given project sent to a different address depending on which organization owns the repo.

Every once in a great while, you come across a post that is damn-near impossible to quote; every paragraph is hard at work, every sentence beautifully written.

wake up make coffee set out new water for the dog check the weather to see if they’re still predicting rain in the afternoon check the news to see if they’re still predicting boots on the ground on Thursday walk the dog check Slack dive back into performa…

Andrés Ortiz Massó’s Pixelfed stream is filled with surreal architectural photographs: buildings are almost unrecognizable as they levitate, loom, and turn in on themselves.

I use Nova for pretty much everything text-related I touch — front-end work, front-end hobbies, note taking, blogging, you name it.

If you’ve spent much time in a Node.js project, you’ve probably encountered a distinction in how external packages can be installed: npm install @11ty/eleventy Installs the package to dependencies npm install --save-dev @11ty/eleventy Installs the package…

Mark Simonson’s lovely Etna caught my eye on a recent rewatch of the excellent Mrs.

Yesterday, inspired by Tyler Sticka’s behind-the-scenes post about his deployment configuration, I switched off automatic builds of this site and replaced them with manual deployments.

Front-end development has a front-seat role in natural resource consumption: every CI job run in a distant data center gulps down drinkable water that could have gone to a real human person; every byte sent down the wire incurs a very real power cost.

Sticker Ninja, the Portland-based shop I used to print my bumper stickers, doesn’t take orders on Sundays: tbh, this is one of our favorite business practices!

Ray Bradbury’s 1950 short story “The Veldt” still hits a certain way 75 years later: “And the whole damn house dies as of here and now.

404 Media, a news outlet founded by four journalists formerly of Motherboard, have been killing it since they opened their doors in 2023.

Back in March, a phrase popped into my head while I was tending to my hummingbirds.

Kate, in her latest post on KBBBLOG: Since the beginning of the summer, I’ve literally pulled over to take pictures of these colorful, playful, hand-painted signs nailed to a variety of telephone poles around Portland.

Today is the first day of WWDC, which I’ve arbitrarily chosen as the day I dust off my design tools in an annual quest to answer the age-old question, “What does the average Apple executive look like?”

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A few weeks back I towed this site — belching and wheezing and on the verge of being totaled — into the shop to do something about the technical debt that had accumulated in just about every hose, crankshaft, and manifold.

What is an internet phone book, you ask, unpunctuated and skeptical.

Maybe this sounds familiar… You regularly hop between projects that are similar in a lot of ways, but whose subtle differences cause just enough friction to make switching a nuisance.

I woke up this morning thinking about two things: “Melee mole sauce,” something I invented in my dream What’s important to me?

I launched this blog back in the early days of 2020 with the idea that I wanted a space to think bigger, longer thoughts than Twitter was affording me.