Hot on the heels of the release of Fit Arabic, I am incredibly happy to announce Fit Kannada, designed by Taresh Vohra and released today by Mota Italic. I am not a speaker of Kannada or a reader of…

In my last post I talked in a round-about way about reconstruction. My post garnered a few comments from friends saying that reconstruction was a new idea to them, so perhaps it’s worth a few more…

I was feeling a little nervous. Maybe more than a little. I’ve been like this for the past month. I went through a breakup. The worse one yet. And I’m in my 40’s. A this age every breakup takes a…

I’m getting caught up on the State of Play and this God of War spin-off game seems cool, the combat looks better to me than the two most recent GoW games but I don’t know if I want to…

Deconstructing risk can help focus where we should be spending our time and money to reduce risk. Most security controls in OT reduce the likelihood of a cyber incident that causes an impact on…

David Friedman’s essay on the power of rhyme: The Best Thing About the Satanic Panic. For readers too young to remember, the Satanic Panic was a widespread moral panic in the late ’80s and…

I stumbled on an old map to Marineland from 1962, with Crenshaw running through the landslide zone to the coast. Wait, did it really used to connect? When? And what happened? I assumed the shifting…

A bird that appears to be a Say's Phoebe was jumping from fence post to fence post ahead of me and Joie while we walked, until it finally flew onto a nearby bush, on a Mid-Spring morning. It kind of…

Think of all the people you once knew, but no longer see. Regardless of how much time has passed. The 80/20 rule describes lots of phenomena. 20% of words account for 80% of word usage, 20% of music…

If you’ve spent any time on econ Twitter or econ Bluesky since 2022, you’ve almost certainly come across the idea of the “vibecession.” For the uninitiated, the vibecession essentially says that…

Near the end of a 5,000-mile trip inspecting highways and byways, Brownie encourages Poor Cus to write about the experience. Says Brownie, “Why don’t you do something worth while? Write a piece…

They may be good for no-stink, but perhaps not really the best choice for high sweat. Some excerpts from here:…

Someone on Reddit asked how you can maintain your own version of application while also being able to upgrade packages without getting conflicts between your changes and Debians changes. Answer This…

Stephanie K. Baer at The San Francisco Standard : Glasses and dishes had been removed from kitchen cabinets and left elsewhere. The dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine were scratched.…

selectTWFE looks interesting: “Estimates both a vanilla two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model and an extended TWFE (ETWFE) model, then selects between them using Cochran’s Q test for…

Is it time to pull back for the endless stream of content?

That's the 1999 San Antonio Spurs, flying home from the NBA Finals. They're pictured returning from their Game 5, 78-77 victory over the New York Knicks, where they clinched their first NBA…

Attentive readers of this newsletter (hello, you two!) will remember that I’ve been asking the ACMA, the Australian media regulator, for an FOI request of ARN’s thoughts regarding the…

When the AI hype bubble bursts, a lot of people (myself included via my superannuation fund) are going to get burnt. I find using an LLM useful at the margins; I’m glad I’m not working in…

More and more platforms and browsers support the new API. I did some tests with different screen readers.

As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day. For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to…

When developers opt out, users lose access.

An extended write-up of the hypermedia API hypothesis for agent workflows with Spring HATEOAS and HAL-FORMS.

Intro Motivating example The solution But what about self-references? States of aggregation Shattering the cycle Behind the scenes The rules so far Conclusion Intro So, in the first installment of…

I've always been a quiet person who prefers to write than to talk (though this may not be obvious based on the number of YouTube videos I've published). So it feels a little weird to say that I think…

This article explores file encryption with Stateless OpenPGP (SOP) tools, and contrasts this use of SOP with the age tool. SOP is a CLI standard for (vendor-agnostic) OpenPGP tools. There are…

One of the key takeaways from my recent Japanese trip was how even the public toilets have built-in bidets that clean your butt. I mentioned in that article that I installed one of these bad-boys in…

quarto-diagrams is a new Quarto extension that adds a collection of circular and structured diagram styles.

After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through.…

Larry Wall built Perl around a principle: no unnecessary limitations. Most of the limitations we build into our own code aren't necessary either — they're laziness wearing the costume of caution, and…

I don’t expect Siri to be the magic bullet. I don’t expect another chat interface. The history of Apple is one of enabling its customers, its users, to ultimately make computing and…

iPhones by default store photos in the High Efficiency Image File format (HEIF), a lossy format that often uses the .heic extension 1 . While this file format works well enough within the Apple…

Now that we have are setup to draw SVG on a page with Bolero , we can go back to our main quest: drawing mountains in a style similar to topographic maps , using shading to hint at the relief. In…

"You are not your user" is fundamentally good advice. It's also occasionally wrong, but in a very useful way.

What it was like, learnings and goals assessment

A quick look at new rate-limiter features in the upcoming Rails version.

The Podcast Consultant acquired Sundial Media. Here's how the deal came together, why Sundial was a good fit, and what I'm learning from acquiring another founder-led service business.

Pragtical v3.11.2 is a focused bug-fix release that tightens file lookup

E-Voting Made Simple (Take 4)

I read a comment stating that git (a tool programmers use to collaborate on code, sort of like Word’s Track Changes) is not a version control system but a “system for creating a version control…

In the past months I have been analyzing Grand Prix Circuit , a Formula 1 racing game developed by DSI in 1988. It started with a simple patch to make the game assets browsable through a Stunts…

Lovable announced this week that every new project on its platform now builds on TanStack Start. That's 100,000 new apps a day riding on open-source infrastructure Lovable doesn't fund.

A receiver for Navtex maritime navigational and meteo warnings.

In case of the mileage of a car or a bike - we calculate the distance travelled in a litre of gas.

A call for original thinking, substance, and empathy when using AI to write. Against the slop that erodes trust in professional communication.

Every morning since May 9th I've established a routine of waking up by 5:30am, feeding the dog, having a snack of skyr and homemade granola, and then sitting down to translate Aristotle for at least…

A tiny macOS menu-bar app I built around the 20-20-20 rule — every 20 minutes, look ~20 feet away for 20 seconds. Horizon gently takes over your screen for a 20-second break so your eyes can ease off…

An open-source Claude Code plugin that turns Claude into a personal Reddit content engine. Reddit punishes self-promotion, so instead of spamming product blurbs, it researches what your target…

The company that led the consumer AI race might be losing the naming one.

AI is writing more and more of your code. You don't even need to be precise, the AI will figure out the details for you. Well, too much of this, and you stop learning. This is how I am preventing…