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This is so cute, clever, and impressive.

Mary Bruno was the person who introduced me before I delivered my TEDx talk a few years ago.

Betteridge’s law of headlines unfortunately applies here, but this was such a fun watch.

Angela Collier made an apology video for making people feel dumb for not knowing that physicists use LaTeX instead of Word, and it’s so delightful.

I had the honor of interviewing Tom Greenwood on the Constant Variables podcast a few years ago, and he remains one of my favorite voices in the world of sustainability.

In the ’90s, Berkeley Systems’ After Dark screen savers were ubiquitous: Flying Toasters, Fish, and Starry Skylines animated across computer screens in school labs, homes, and offices everywhere.

Thijs de Buck, an MRI physicist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, recently posted on Reddit that he built a speed and distance tracker for his hamster’s wheel, with the data automatically uploaded to Mollie’s own Strava account.

These word guessing programs need the hysteria of people running around like Chicken Little claiming the sky is falling because it feeds into smoke and mirror valuations that the Worst People on the Planet™ are selling to investors and the media.

The solution to technology is not more technology.

In case you haven't heard: it's the Summer of Doing The Thing!

I’ve been listening to music regularly since I had gotten my first walkman in my childhood.

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I can’t predict which post will matter, or to whom.

WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English.

After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day, I watched the movie again.

Saw this on Noisy Deadlines, had to give it a go.

For years now, I’ve documented the “glimmers” that brighten each month—the small moments that make me pause and feel safe, calm, or hopeful.

Without a sense of self, it is impossible to know what we truly want out of our life.

It is not acceptable to bounce users on old browsers, users with bad network connections, users using assistive technologies.

My daughter's watching this episode right now, and it makes me wonder... could something like this happen if we all collectively decided not to use social media or AI tools?

Found myself nodding along during this entire article.

Amid all this talk about the inevitability of “AI”, I think it’s okay for us to ask what kind of future we want, and then move toward it together.

Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of many ad blocker tools.

How many birds and butterflies did I miss looking at dumb phones?

Before running all of these tests, I actually did this the old-fashioned way.

I don’t want to go back to floppy disks.

What we don’t yet know is how architectural coherence evolves over years in a fully agent-generated system.

Information allows us to act more skillfully.

Sometimes, people in technology believe that we can solve problems by getting people to pay attention.

I jumped head first into the punk/metal pool this month.

Well gang, I think we can call it a day.

A must-watch video from Casey Muratori reflecting on the commencement speech where Eric Schmidt, founder of Google, was booed when encouraging students to adopt AI.

A lot of the problem is going to come down to us.

In contexts not concerning the elite private colleges of New England and their decades-old conflicts and syllabi and on-campus squabbles, this mode of prestige media procedure matters absolutely and enormously, at scales difficult to tabulate.

This profile on the Fire in the Mountains Festival is a must-read.

It's not yet summer, but I'm declaring 2026 to be the summer where I "Do The Thing."

In thinking about protecting the past, I'm grateful to Brennan Brown for their post, "How are we preparing for the Long Web?

Early on, I picked up the habit of checking with him when some technical thing or other wasn’t working the way I expected: “I can’t connect to the thingamabob :(” “The whatchamacallit isn’t working :(” “How do I fix the doohickey?”

Taking inspiration from my buddy Paul's talk, I decided this week that I needed to commit to finishing my patio project.

Great blog post exploring how techniques for dealing with OCD can be broadly applied to all the feelings we feel.

Maya is living the dream here.

My buddy Paul gave a talk at Minnebar ostensibly about how he's able to take a 3d scan of a room and throw it into Blender to visualize how a furniture piece will look in a room.

In the wee hours of the night last April, someone stopped at roughly 20 street intersections across Silicon Valley and launched an unprecedented cyberattack that would eventually spread to multiple states, embarrassing local officials and prompting them to

When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable.

During the peak of mobile app madness, iOS and Android developers would often find themselves cornered by friends, relatives, and random people at parties.

The modern advertising apparatus exists to bypass rational thought and trigger emotional responses that lead to purchasing decisions.

Your blog is a radio station.

This whole article is the encouragement I know I'll need to be brought back to at some point.

The Klan of the 1920s wasn't just a racist organization, they expanded their hate to include Jews and Catholics and immigrants (which back then were largely one and the same, as many Jews and Catholics had recently immigrated to America from Eastern Europ…

“Sometimes — or a lot of times,” I hedged, “when people think about environment and climate news, they think about doom and gloom.