Tom Goren – Posts

Trigger warning: In the end I describe a somewhat gruesome procedure performed on rats in the course of scientific research.

A high school student Martin Gendell, a high school student in NYC, built a fusor and shared a video on the development process.

The Metallurgist Dr.

Touch Grass Every once in a while, I am reminded of Stephen Wolfram’s idea of taking a walk in nature.

Thought leadership Jake Vaughn with a scathing and hilarious take down of one the tech industry’s unnecessarily influential people, Mark Andreessen.

Earlier this year, I wrote about my experience trying to find a new job.

A tried and true vegetarian side dish, easy to make and eggplant-skeptic friendly.

Plywood Tom Sachs’ ode to plywood from 2012 is an artful and educational video essay on one of the modern world’s underappreciated marvels, plywood.

Democratic work Sierra LaDuke with a fun approachable video essay that tracks discontent of workers through a historic and cultural lens.

Once upon a time last year In the spring of 2025, I had a sense that it was time for a change in my career.

Recipe Takes about 15-20 minutes, depending on thickness of fish Ingredients Salmon fillets skin-on, works with bbq cuts also Olive oil Soy sauce Whole grain mustard (we usually use Maille Old Style mustard, but I think Trader Joe’s has an equivalent prod…

Recipe Makes about 3-4 portions Can be stored in fridge for a few days Tends to solidify some, so if reheating after refrigeration, best to mix with some yogurt Ingredients 1 cup steel cut oats 1.5 cups milk 1.5 cups water 0.5 teaspoons salt 1.5 tablespoo…

Art Kenneth Price, from [artnet]: Ken Price was an American artist best known for his small-scale ceramic sculptures which resembled biomorphic blobs, sliced geodes, and surreal teacups.

Precision “He’s lived above this workshop for 50 years making parts for bullet trains, satellites, and nuclear power stations” Tech This talk from Professor Robert M.

Educational Fascinating talk on how we express ourselves with visual communication and share abstract ideas from Prof.

Music corto.alto: 30/108 Liam Shortall is a multi-instrumentalist from Glasgow, and has been making some of the hardest hitting, most fun music I’ve heard in a while.

Music Ernesto Holman’s Ñamco: Progressive bass-forward jazz rock fusion full of surprises and indigenous sounds from Chile Salin’s Rammana: Funk nouveau from Thailand Tech Homelab plans: Self-host Gitea and Zulip Wrap up migration from Google Photos to se…

Goal Gain familiarity and experience with web development through an infrastructure oriented software engineering lens (more on this in a later post).

Today, Explained In depth coverage of current events, fair and relatively lighthearted The Rest Is History British historians cover all kinds of places, people, trends - usually quite enjoyable, occasionally tedious, always informative Not very emotional,…

Culture Transcendent skateboard art in Gou Miyagi’s “TIMESCAN 2” Tech This site is now generated with Hugo and pushed automatically to GitHub Pages.

Culture “Beyond Expert” CGP Grey goes down a rabbit hole in English History.

Culture An illustration of survivorship bias manifested in ancient buildings A band I plan on seeing live for the first post-pandemic show I will attend in a couple of months: Mdou Moctar –I didn’t end up going Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Ha…

Culture Nick Shoulders again, this time with a live cover of Elvis’ Black Star The “fastest reel in the west” - cheers me up every time I watch it Kokoroko in a masterful groove.

Culture Blick Bassy - Mpodol - I love the arrangement, the cello used as a bass, and the brass prominent but soft.

Culture Wintergatan is a musician, maker, engineer, vlogger, creator.

Culture These guys are awesome dancers, and they have a variety of very silly videos on their channels.

Culture Today’s theme - family music!

Culture What is nostalgia and how does it work?

Culture Segregated by Design Examine the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.

Overview We need two components to get up and running with our Python projects: A way to manage versions of Python on our machines A way to manage dependencies for each of our projects Not so long ago, my solution of choice would probably be pyenv, and vi…

Culture William Wegman’s work feels like an oblique intersection of nature, pop art, and nostalgia.

Culture There is so much in Jamila Woods’ first album, HEAVN (2017).

Culture A World War II Navy Survival Film A beautiful place in Seattle, WA - “Shut that god damn dog up” Tech Everything You Need To Know About Nil (Ruby) Random Spaghettification

Culture Increase your productivity!

Culture Moses Sumney - “Cut Me - A COLORS SHOW” - Moses Sumney is an utterly impressive musician.

Hello Happy weekend!

Hello Today is a Wednesday.

Culture Silver Jews - American Water: A rock band the product of art scholars, the Silver Jews created a golem of their period’s zeitgeist, which we can now enjoy 20 years later.

Hello These are some things that I’ve been curious about lately: Culture Patrick Willie’s YouTube channel.

Overview This is a meta post about how to host a blog with Pelican, the static site generator, and Firebase Hosting, Google’s easy-peasy platform.

Overview Here is a short set of instructions on how to get started with Rust in Neovim.

Objective In this article, you will learn some basic concepts and key terms related to computers.