Ten years ago, I used to ask celebrities for pictures. Whenever I spotted a familiar face on the streets of Seoul or New York, my heart would start racing because I immediately imagined taking a…

we've been out and about in the sunny weather and i've been taking a few photos - here are a few i thought turned out nice!

2 years ago, I never thought I would get here.ALT

Let's talk about Jicky. Here's the thing.Jicky's reputation precedes it, and there have been approximately 889,000 internet reviews of Jicky written in the past 26 years. I don't need to get…

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Photo by Mark Wyner The weekly curated list of things that bring me joy. Plus bytes on design, code, accessibility, privacy, and tools you might find useful. Available via RSS and email. This week’s…

A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive

April's been another great month. Everything just seems to feel stable at the moment.

A handful of devs, a million goodbyes.

Despite renewed commitments, local involvements, visits and calls with folks who care about me, and other sources of solace, lately I have been taking an inward turn. Although as previously mentioned…

How Purdue Hackers changed my life.

If I recall correctly, I said that I had 22 weeks of parental leave and my overriding goal was to not waste them. How can you waste parental leave? I guess I didn’t want to get to the end and not…

Olly sent you here, which means I can skip some of what I'd normally say to a cold reader. You already have a list. It's probably been working. Something about how it's running is starting to feel…

A fine day in the Heartland, blue skies, a McDonald's kiosk I didn't ask for, and kids playing catch in a meadow.

I cleaned all the stuff out of my Drafts.app inbox. I feel light and filled with 100 possibilities. Maybe more!

As I continue to get off Apple's ecosystem from removing my data off iCloud and moving to Linux, today was a big day, I sold my Apple hardware. Apple is not the same company as it used to be and many…

It’s important to have your own goals. Because if you don’t decide what you actually want… You’ll end up chasing what everyone else is chasing. And that’s where people get lost. I noticed it myself.…

📌 My view (unfortunately my back is turned to this) It was way more relaxed than I thought it would be! It's a small team. Other than setting up (which was a royal pain), it was a really good day.

The big lie is that you can think yourself into being something different. You need to act your way there. Eve of my marriage. I have a child now. Truthfully, I thought given my manifest mental…

Table of Contents April 2026: The fall of the theorem economy - David Bessis These are some links to interesting posts around the web, with some quick quotes/notes. April 2026: The fall of the…

A few years ago, I became aware of Van Neistat’s YouTube channel. I really enjoy his extreme utilitarian Anderson-esque approach to filmmaking and storytelling. It seems like everything he owns,…

My efforts to sell much of my collection have been successful. The major step was holding a swap meet at WordPlay Cincy on May 2. It took some planning ... but it's fun for me to do things like…

I’ve had an absolutely wild week of ups and downs. I’m emotionally and physically exhausted. We kicked off with my dad’s birthday. He would have been 78 this year if he wasn’t dead. I knew him for 18…

I spent all weekend playing racecars at our club's annual two-day autocross event.

It apparently feels like minus one Celsius outside, on Christmas Day in London, but it got to a balmy twenty-three inside my studio apartment. So, I cracked open the window for a moment for some…

A day off - about time. Early partner call. Helped J. put up stainless wire for rose training in the garden. Plugged away at garage tidying with more good progress. Lunch with the family outside in…

2026 has looked different from previous years in a number of ways. I don’t need to talk about all of them here (we’d be here all day!). But there’s one in particular I’d like to focus on: Along with…

On the final day of April 2026 she drew her last breath. On June 1 she would have turned ten. She has meant the world to us, and more.

Last week was quite a good one: I was super productive at work, we visited a new National Trust property (and revisited an old favourite), and we've just generally been enjoying things! I started and…

h1 id=now tabindex=-1Now/h1 ul li data-emoji=🏠 Still in Vegas, where after an unusually mild winter, it's been a semi-normal spring?/li li data-emoji=✈️ I went to a…

I tried Day One’s “Chat About Your Day” feature today. It’s a conversation about your day, where each turn is a little prompt, rather than a blank journal page. It went well. The prompts were very…

Well I never, A brief moan about my washing machine, Ghost art.

It has been a few weeks since I last updated this... whatever it is. It felt so alive a month ago. Of course one month ago I was in the midst of a wild hypomanic episode, amongst the strongest and…

The word that sums up this week is: resilience. A top moment for me was taking the weekend a bit easier (as it is a bank holiday) and spending time together as a family. Something I’m looking forward…

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I went to listen to the head of growth at AstraAI. They make a consumer AI app you pay for monthly. Early days In the beginning it took them about three days to understand what was working. Three…

My 1-year term as Chair of Academic Senate is winding to a close. Phew.My obligations in this term end in two days. At that time, the new elected Chair steps into the role. Now's a good time to…

After a strenuous bike ride in Patagonia last week, I summoned the energy to crank out the first draft of an opinion piece that was published just a couple of days later in the Yale Daily News. The…

I was late to my own party last week. There were a bunch of factors that caused this silly mishap that could have all been mitigated with proper planning. Ultimately, I was running late and still had…

hi good morning (: this is the return of weeknotes from my computer. meaning if this is bad its because i'm actually a terrible blogger with an uninteresting life. here is the vibe: drinking: v60…

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Restroom doors can be improved by considering how people use them in relation to their surroundings.

No I am not talking about your money in stocks. I am talking about your time, which you are spending, it can be some project or your day job, or a relationship. Sometime, we start it because it felt…

1. The weird but definitely not AI Designs of Stephanie Temma Hier Funnily enough, she’s only on Instagram. 2. The “little Scorpion of the French Riviera” wandered into my shop the…

I wonder how much of people loving or hating meetings is down to how well they can type or multitask.

OpenClaw battle with Anthropic and Fun things I saw and read