its my 27th birthday today, and im struggling to find any magic today. its beautiful out and im doing the things that are supposed to make me feel happy but everything feels flat. all i can think…

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Microsoft News Videos Blogs Highlighted projects New Releases That’s all for now. Have a great week. If you want to help keep F#…

I have been blessed with more than my fair share of lifelong friendships. When I married my wife, I wrote vows about how I would try to emulate my closest friends as a husband. That was twelve years…

Greetings,I have been having a wonderful summer. I hope yours is going well too, or winter, if you're in that part of the world. In Las Cruces, summer starts in April, so it's been warm here for…

For years I wallowed in the stagnancy of my reading room. My books weren’t new enough to have the new book smell, and they weren’t old enough to have the old book smell. The only excitement, as…

I still have my substack at the moment. I initially wrote this to post here but I decided to publish it and send it out via email to my current subscribers there instead. Here is a link if you're…

Here are my thoughts on news across the internet this week. We touch on rent denialism, collapsing job markets, corporate productivity theater, and the many ways AI is being oversold, misused, or…

Monday “Who is the man with the black umbrella?” “There are thirty guns in the box.” I’ve started using Duolingo again. I could potentially weave black-umbrella man into the Duolingo story, but I’m…

Howdy folks, I've been sick as a dog for two-ish weeks, but I'm BACK, and I've gotten through most of (but not all) the backed-up posts in my RSS reader. Here's what else is on this month! Put This…

'What Else Is On?' is a collection of things from elsewhere on the web that I want to share. Howdy folks, I've been sick as a dog for two-ish weeks, but I'm BACK, and I've gotten through most of (but…

This was a rough one, y'all.

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Colors, Tokens, Connections, Covid, Wonks, IPOs, Paperclips, 1873

June is flying by, as it often does. A quick PSA: vacation plans mean Donatella will be stopping by a little later than usual next month...expect her on Thursday, July 9. Meanwhile, we're whiling…

Amouage has launched Suede Ibri and Tonka Misfah, two new additions to The Attars Collection...

Thoughts on staying cool and collective or structural changes.

This update covers Sunday 06-21-26 through Saturday 06-27-26 (icon Glossary , if needed). LIFE 🈁 Making decisions and sticking to them (which is always the harder part). 📕 I committed to using one…

I usually go out and join tech events in the city. I’ve joined several of them, but the most memorable was the event where my friends and I won first prize by solving a delivery optimization problem.

Good morning. I am sitting at my desk in the study. When I arranged my coffee mug and all my secondary screens around my laptop (my phone, an ipad playing BBC Sounds, a TRML e-ink display currently…

Another thought leadership post about why teams should be smaller. I know, very original. But there’s a version of this conversation that’s actually useful, because the point is easy to…

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ After Apple announced their price increases for so many of their products I managed to find a new MacBook Air on Amazon at the old price so I went…

After prolonged personal and family health difficulties, June has proven to be a productive and generative month. Following publication of my essay Reindigenising , we developed the Reindiginse!…

our 86th weekly open mike Let’s see what happens when your host (me) has nothing to say. Step right up, speak your mind, tell a story, sing a song, whatever. 6/27/2026 Anything goes…

The most difficult position in soccer must be the goalkeeper’s parent.

Working again, man it's hard and fun! As I anticipated in my previous post, chapter 3 of Andy's professional life has begun:Landing my first real job at Scale AI as employee…

How do you forgive your spouse when they’ve hurt you deeply?  The Bible gives us an answer. And the first step might surprise you: 1. Prepare Yourself Before the Hurt Happens One of the best ways to…

weeknote #26.02 Saturday, 27. Jun, 2026 I played a newly conceptualized live computer sound performance which is titled: "prince lucija: QUANTEAR 07EA" . It's purposefully conceptualized as a live…

Retirement is just the beginning of your plan. Read more in this week’s terrific links.   Wealth and money aren’t the same thing. Darius Foroux The real purpose of your retirement…

RE: Your shit is unreadable 1. there is enough hate in this world, if I cannot be a solution I won't be part of the problem2. if you don't like it, don't read it, there's plenty of spaces fuming the…

RE: Wear a helmet! In the Netherlands a lot of people are starting to wear them. But I mainly see the transition in parents. Our thoughts being:1. setting an example2. their heads are too fragile3.…

Shout out to everyone whose books are on my coffee table

Taking a week off from work to go and visit a bit of Ontario with the family and just reset the tempo of my body a little. We’re off to Niagara for the first time. It’s been a mentally exhausting 6…

It’s been a hot week, my brain is melting, and AI is starting to suck some of the joy out of my job. It’s the perfect time for my brain to be in fantasy land.I was thinking about the…

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Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found recently. Full link stash here . This week: That's right, I changed the name of this dumping of links. "Link stash" lost its appeal.…

Iditarod director leaving While most of the sporting world was Friday chattering about the FIFA World Cup, the July Fourth start of the Tour de France, or the latest NFL star facing […]

There is a particular meeting that keeps happening in a certain organization I know. The same two departments, the same friction, the same argument in slightly different clothes, every few months for…

I am listening to the playlist of hopecore. Music from the 2010s. They all sound kinda hopeful, hence the name. 2010s were a good time. Things were going upwards instead of wars and all that trash.…

I had a strange experience this morning. After having our barcodes scanned at Diamond Creek parkrun’s annual Pride event, my friend and I headed straight to D’s athletics event. As we were talking,…

The first world problems have been coming at us hard the past couple of weeks. Amidst the excitement of moving into our new house we started to experience a streak of serial disappointments so…

8610/21529In an attempt to stay up long enough to watch the England match, I watched tonight's episode of the 1% club. As a fan of quiz shows (who would like to come up with one of my own) I…

Good morrow, Parishioners, It has been brought to the attention of Middle Woe Parish Council that an unknown parishioner has attempted to relocate their puddle to a more convenient location. The…

Apparently the way up is down.

In 2023, we reduced our monthly household spending by a large margin. Here's what we did, and how you can replicate the same effect.

ALTvery! busy day⇤ ⭠ ⭢ ⇥

Welcome to “ Tennis Tuesday ”, my new series of recurring posts with a weekly round-up of news and updates about Italian tennis. Featured this week: Sinner at Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic…

Let’s talk about the benefits of a college degree. Outside of a credential and the corresponding letters to go after your name, presumably the major benefit is an increase in knowledge. But…