Faraway, So Close

🎧 TLDR; I'm doing a podcast episode a day.

As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there’s two more “selfie of the day” posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project.

Feeling a bit nostalgic for the old web, I posted this thought this morning: How long has it been since you hopped around the web from blog to website to a different blog to someone’s about page to yet another website?

Sad news from Ireland via the Irish Independent: Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin’s Lucan.

From RTE: Bad: The Song That Saved My Life explores Rowen’s life, from his childhood on Dublin’s northside to his struggles with trauma and heroin addiction, and the friendship that connected him with Bono and other figures from Dublin’s 1980s music scene.

By now you've probably heard or seen plenty of reactions, reviews, and commentary to Apple's WWDC keynote yesterday so feel free to skip mine a day late.

Quick version: I’m switching to Patreon to send out my email newsletters.

I'm still working through Noah Kahan's new album, The Great Divide.

Over on Threads (Twitter-like social network, owned by Facebook / Meta), a few months ago they added a feature called "ghost posts" that's a lot like Snapchat or Instagram Stories in that anything you set as a ghost post disappears after 24 hours. 😱 Plug…

I know there's plenty of commercial and make money push behind the #MayTheFourth movement, but I still love seeing all the Star Wars nerds showing their love for the galaxy every year.

Two days before his new album, The Great Divide, is released, Noah Kahan's recent performance on Tiny Desk Concert is out: The new songs here are wonderfully incisive and catchy, as they radiate empathy for loved ones and places from his past.

Recently I was thinking back to how many times a man, often in a leadership position of some sort, had reassured me that another man that I had a bad or weird interaction with was, in fact, a “good guy”.

I know I'm supposed to title this "THE MOST IMPORTANT SETTING FOR PARENTS TO KNOW BEFORE THEIR CHILD IS ABDUCTED BY FORTNITE PLAYERS?!!?!!"

Dave Matthews performs "Don't Drink the Water" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Direct link to the video Matthews released the song in 1998 as commentary on the history of North America and the genocide that happened from his perspective as a South…

The MacBook Neo is the first Apple laptop to be powered by an A series chip, the A18 Pro, which is what's in the iPhone 16 Pro models.