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This article explains how database indexing works in a way that feels hyper-targeted toward me: using a database filled with Pokémon.

Tracking every single song I listen to seems to be a habit I built a long time ago and can't seem to shake.1 My tracking tool of choice continues to be last.fm.

And tonight, the category is: covers that go hard.

I have loved listening to Giant Steps since college, but never knew why so many musically-literate people love this album.

I was totally sobbing by the end of this beautifully illustrated version of Danny Fenster, an American journalist who was arrested for months in Myanmar for the crime of... uh, journalism.

Is there anything more punk than spending your snowy Sunday listening to The Rezillos, piling up a mountain of snow, and digging a big hole into it, just because it's fun and makes you happy?

This is a great list, saving this for later.

Curation was once something we did for ourselves, a ritual that shaped our taste and gave us joy.

I found Dr.

This is a pretty fun "reasons I love the internet" game where you are presented with a textbox and a timer, and you have to list as many animals as you can before time runs out.

Around the beginning of every month, I try to journal about the albums I've been bumping on repeat recently.

A lot of technical people got really attached to our identities as smart kids.

Not all borrowing is the same.

At a conference once, I vividly recall my supervisor—a brilliant mathematician—listening intently as a colleague presented his research, using every polished, TED-style public speaking technique imaginable.

I often forget my anxiety isn’t caused by a lack of answers to my swirl of questions, but the swirl itself.

You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it six months ago (or a week ago, or however fast you write)?

So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.

But by weeks 7 or 8, one team hit a wall.

11 year old Tim would've killed for something like this.

I spent most of my day working on Lunara today.

The most compelling use case I see for agentic programming is to enable home-cooked software on a scale like never before.

We’ll miss the feeling of holding code in our hands and molding it like clay in the caress of a master sculptor.

I can’t live in hell and make excuses for ravenously consuming a shitty reality show produced by a person I don’t know personally on a network I am unaffiliated with.

Originally adapted from Ron Miller's Advanced Improv Practice Guide, and discovered at the bottom of jyn's incredible blog post titled "i'm just having fun", which is a must-read.

When we fail to take active responsibility for our life, we tend to feel helpless, which breeds resentment of others—especially those who seem to be doing better than us and to be looking down on us.

My buddy Paul1 sent me a link to this macOS app a few weeks ago, but I didn’t have a use case for it until yesterday.

The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.

Apropos of nothing going on in my backyard right now, these fonts are dope.

What's going on in those vast oceans of GPUs that enables providers to give you a 10x discount on input tokens?

Every attempt to discuss the problem becomes another piece of content, another take, another entry in the engagement competition that makes the problem worse.

Here’s the paradox that makes this pattern particularly poignant.

I’m coming to terms with the high probability that AI will write most of my code which I ship to prod, going forward.

This is a beautifully-designed thesis on why we should all go back to having personal websites, which is a topic I could go off on for days.

I made my first website when I was in third grade, and I've maintained some sort of web presence since that first version of Tim's World.

Do you know what I mean when I say “old-school internet forums”?

Being in a complete state of sadness for perpetuity because there is unhappiness in the world or because you are supposed to be grieving makes for a hopeless existence.

How you care about issues that move you is what counts.

When a friend says "oops" after spilling coffee, they're performing a specific social ritual.

I have been through winters before and I have always, eventually, found my way back to spring.

I've got two Bandcamp habits that I've adopted this past year which bring me so much joy that I wanted to share them here.

And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social fee…

I remember finding a ton of inspiration (and incredible music, of course) from this collection last year.

I had a plan to publish these photos today for my weekly post, but I had found myself wondering what is the point of it all.

I didn't quite make it to the top, but I got way closer than last year!

ls is a good program. ls is a tool.

For Halloween this year, I went as Carl, the titular hero from my current book series obsession: Dungeon Crawler Carl.

This was a delight to play.

I did go to urgent care.

The fact is, someone is almost always watching, so it’s worth treating everything you do with purpose and pride.

“As I remember London” should be a wake-up call for everyone in the Ruby and Rails communities.