Brady Hurlburt

Summary This is a fun little set of commands to run live-captioning on my Macbook!

Brady Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?”

Brady Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?”

Hi, I’m Brady Hurlburt. 👋 I live in Chicago with my wife and kiddos.

Another song on the baritone ukulele that my dad built for me.

“Due Midnight AOE” A song about having a newborn.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. 🎧 You’d think that car safety ratings include testing woman-sized crash dummies in the driver’s seat, right?

How We Think by John Dewey. 🎧 Dewey equates intelligence with the ability to suspend judgement instead of accepting dogma immediately.

Want to help your kids experience classical music, but don’t know what to play?

The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns Enns argues that most of the Old Testament is not actually trying to get the historical events right: it is a narrative designed to help exiled Israel and doesn’t necessarily recount what happened or what God said or di…

White Noise by Don Delillo Since this is the first post-modern fiction I’ve read, I can’t tell if the theme of this book is that you can’t know anything for sure, or if that’s just all post-modern books.

There should be a “Jack Antonoff Ruined My Favorite Band” club.

I’m about to start a family Trello board.

I left an IntelliJ debugger running yesterday, so this morning I pulled my laptop out of my bag hot, fan running, and out of battery and all I could think was “same.”

In Mom Instsgram, slicing bananas with a plastic knife is the new reading.

Pork belly is the cream cheese of meats.

In How We Think, Dewey says that a shift from an attitude-of-play to an attitude-of-work is not a shift in interest in activities for their own sake to an interest in results and products.

I’m still working my way through The Authority of the Bible by C.

From John Dewey’s How We Think: Direct immediate discharge or expression of an impulsive tendency is fatal to thinking.

This is my first post via my little HTML posting web client and a Rails API on Heroku!

Here we go again.

Brown sugar is like, whole-wheat sugar, right?

This is my first post from the Ruby client I just wrote.

Favorite Things Public transit.

Love Wins by Rob Bell.

Democracy and Education by John Dewey. 🎧 There’s so much in this book, but I lived in “Chapter 23: Vocational Aspects of Education” for a while.

After Evangelicalism by David P.

For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy.

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.

A song on the baritone ukulele that my dad built for me.

Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Hegel. 🎧 About the only thing I remember from this is something like “history is the physical working out of reason.”

The “I forgot to submit my assignment” dreams have been replaced with “I forgot to submit my benefits enrollment” dreams.

I think text autocomplete is low-grade mind control, so I made a little app to try to demonstrate it.

Taking God at His Word by Kevin DeYoung This book convinced me that it would be great* if the Bible were innerrant, infallible, complete, and clear from a basic reading.

My 5HE is turning off Eye Saver on my monitor at around 2pm.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov.

The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. 🎧 Socialism: Scientific and Utopian by Engels. 🎧 I didn’t know that Marxism was all about the effects of the Industrial Revolution.

I’m setting a goal for this year to become brave enough to open leetcode.com in my web browser.

What stage of quarantine is looping Jack’s Mannequin and Flyleaf?

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Christian Smith and Michael O.

Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Paul Resnick, Robert E.

Carl Hendrick in Aeon on our apparent failure to form growth mindset theory into an effective intervention: In their book Effective Teaching (2011), the UK education scholars Daniel Muijs and David Reynolds note: ‘At the end of the day, the research revie…

You know, the not-a-cluster cluster.

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I can’t tell if I’m not grokking “composition over inheritance” or if Go just really needs better mocking tools.

The Mayo Clinic parenting book doesn’t say at what age the baby can understand Phoebe Bridgers lyrics.

I’m pretty sure a bot could derive our company’s org chart based only on listening to who resumes talking after two people accidentally try to start talking at the same time on a Zoom call.

My dad gave me his old architectural lettering textbook.

It’s important to remember that most of your electronic devices just barely work.

Play Anything by Ian Bogost First, pay close, foolish, even absurd attention to things.