Famously, for years I have read every single blog post in NetNewswire, every tweet on Twitter (when that website existed), and every toot on Mastodon for the websites and accounts that I follow. It…

In a session today there was some discussion about agentic skills. A skill is mostly a markdown text file often named, yes, skill.md with a natural language text plus some front matter, describing…

While digging through an old hard drive, I found a breakup demo I'd completely forgotten existed. Six years later, I'm finally sharing it.

Poem: Reed Whittemore - The Party I am going to be cheerful and sentimental here, because however impaled my heart, I still have a beaming Holden Caulfield-like love for children and small things. I…

Small victories are often considered the best kind… And actually… I’m wondering if the above truism is actually true or simply one I made up just now on the spot… In any case, we should never…

“Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking.”

A long article (23 min read!) on the rebuild of MDN away from React and into Web Components. There's lots in there, but I particularly like the section starting Web Components that writes about how…

Summer is here. In Charlotte, you don’t need anyone to tell you that. It’s 92 degrees as I write this. Numbers shouldn’t have to go that high, but here they stand. North Carolina is…

Hi there!“So Good They Can't Ignore You” by Cal Newport is the best career book that I’ve ever read. I just finished it last week, and I believe it’s even more…

Everyone in the room nodded."Win the enterprise segment." It was right there on the screen, and twelve people agreed with it. Sales agreed. Engineering agreed. The CEO had written the words…

Artificial intelligence is becoming abundant. Human attention is not. The future belongs to those who learn to orchestrate multiple AI systems.

“Automations” are a myth. Wait long enough, and yours will break. It’s almost guaranteed. And at that point, they’re no longer automated. They’re something you have to debug and fix. For this reason,…

When running "Combat as Sport" players and refs are mostly concerned with a "balanced game" where mastery over rules, procedures, execution and options results in victory. When running "Combat as…

What made the Quick Desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I've seen at Amazon: a small group of people who trusted each other, owned the problem end-to-end,…

In addition to titles published by Atari and Sears, Activision had two releases in March 1981 as well. The company’s six offerings from 1980 were broadly considered to bring a new degree of graphical…

Today’s lyrics are becoming darker in tone, simpler in form, and more centered on the isolated self. What does that say about the culture singing along? Popular music is one way a culture…

Posting this on the last day of the month instead of the start of the next one, but I'm not on the verge of finishing anything and I'm not watching a movie tonight so I think it's fair. Books 📕 The…

I don't have any other details I can provide at this time (and there will certainly be a publication ban anyway, what with his big trial beginning August 24), but I can confirm that Bill was arrested…

All twelve of them.    

Continuing with Ghostface Killah's biography "Rise of a Killah: My Life in the Wu-Tang" for my Hip Hop Literature self-study . Chapter 3: Apollo Kids I don't think I've ever read much about PCP or…

If you look at the raw numbers, it seems like demos do not directly lead to wishlists. But demos are still the most powerful marketing tool for generating wishlists. Wait? What? Demo play stats are…

The Minnesota Iceman is a sideshow exhibit and elaborate hoax that depicts a fake man-like creature frozen in a block of ice. It was displayed at shopping malls, state fairs, and carnivals in the…

Well, i got better rest last night, but damn do I not want to work. I'm gonna go, but I'd love to do anything but that. Whatever, hopefully it'll go by fast.

Just a regular dude posting his thoughts.

Hello cubs ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, The title says it all: I started learning crochet yesterday. After thinking about it all weekend, looking at tutorials and dozens of aesthetic Instagram accounts, I thought "Why not…

Full of Chainsaws June is closing out somewhere between bang and whimper. Yesterday saw the last bits of queries and approvals for the re-released Watcher series, which brings at least one furious…

Apple’s recent price increases across several product lines are a reminder that even highly disciplined supply chains are not immune to market pressure. On June 25, 2026, Apple raised prices on Macs,…

Here’s the seventh installment of selected blog posts published in July in recent years on GeometryCode.com. Each entry below includes the post title, published month, and a sample image to…

Watercolor from February: 23 Church Street, Cambridge MA

I am a Distinguished Reviewer of GPCE 2026 , colocated with ECOOP in Brussels. The award went to two out of a program committee of 33, putting me in the top 6%.

Last weekend, I went to the exhibition "The Creative Origins of Mamoru Hosoda" that's currently being held at Creative Museum Tokyo (until August 31st). The price was a bit high for my tastes at…

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/parse-dont-validate-typescript/ A practical exercise walking through how to " Parse, don't validate " in plain typescript. I did not know about the "brand" technique,…

Thoughts on Tuesday June 30, 2026.

I just came back from a vacation to Japan with my wife and 10-month old. We went to Kyoto via Osaka and spent 6 days in Kyoto. It was a lovely experience, although just after we left there were…

My observations

The Haps My boss sent out an announcement about my retirement . I thought I’d start getting a lot of frantic requests for help with last-minute things, but not so much. Plenty of congratulatory…

it is once again the same picture that paints itself right here in front of my eyes a push and pull my feelings — the ball you throw back and forth it's nothing new something I got used to the way…

Companies depend on open source software. Supporting the projects that support your business shouldn't be treated as charity; it should be part of sustaining the infrastructure, ecosystem, and user…

I was hesitant about returning to pencil so soon after kilo, but mike wanted to be sharp. , , , , , Two months ago, a family of Hawaiians moved into the neighborhood—dad, mom, two sisters, six and…

If you’re a fan of Major League Baseball, you’re probably familiar with “Tommy John surgery.” The procedure is a creative one that most of us non-athletes will never need. Our elbows have a ligament…

We have heard a great deal about political realignment since the rise of the Donald Trump era, and even more so now in the context of the turbulence of his second term. Many explanations have been…

Just read Noel Tock’s Human Made Newsletter 1 – they are always at the cutting edge of WP development – on how they are building a WordPress integration that uses the Abilities API and the MCP…

Hello You. It’s been a while, but I’m delighted to announce that FOGFEST returns for one last ride on Saturday August 1st at IKLECTIK, live from their new home at Peckham levels.…

Real-time is one of those features that demos in an afternoon and humbles you for a month. Open a WebSocket, push a message, watch it appear on the other screen — done, right? That's the part that's e

Prompt list for July's #writersCoffeeClub prompts.

I was about halfway through Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything when I read internet ethnographer and Fairer Disputations’ Featured Author Katherine Dee’s…

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a blue baseball cap, blue T-shirt, tan shorts, white socks, and Stan Smiths. How does Dave feel today? Dave is calm and content. What are the factors…

A new video exposé on the cult billionaire plan to privatize government—plus, the podcast hits 25,000.

Stage 4 liver cancer means the cancer has spread beyond the liver to distant organs or lymph nodes, making curative surgery no longer an option. Most cases are hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the…