Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin I wrote recently that we must raise a revolution , but that's not quite right. A revolution…

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The first post in this series made a clean case for keyset pagination over Skip/Take. Readers on LinkedIn pushed back with a fair question I’d dodged: what about sortable grids where the user picks…

The photo above is John Reeder (the news/farm director of KBOA in the 1950s) interviewing Elia Kazan during the filming of A Face in the Crowd in 1957. (more info here) I think the first time I saw a…

At the time of publishing, one of the easiest ways of prototyping or evaluating a 802.11ah HaLow client without having to spin your own PCB is using the commonly available Wi-Fi HaLow Transceiver for…

In 1996, The Vagina Monologues first appeared in San Francisco. It was an amazing work of theater, combining some of my most passionate interests: trauma, politics and art. It was a brilliant work of…

Sign up to our orienteering-style larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding.

Most advice treats fear as the thing in your way. I treat it as the thing telling me which idea matters. The bigger the fear, the more I know to work on it.

My partner and I wrote an article about our quest to complete the Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Passport Challenge entirely on transit. You can read it at the Urbanist. It has absolutely nothing…

A note on note-taking Taking notes is fun! It can supposedly make you look sophisticated too, but unless you are taking notes in a tiny A6-or-smaller notebook, while walking, in a park, I wouldn't…

New page alert!! A showcase of my growing collection of novelty cake pans!

The last year seems to have been the biggest change in developer tools ever. If you’re reading the discourse you can’t go more than 5 minutes without seeing someone talking about their new…

Nobody outside your team can explain what product does. That&apos;s not their failure. It&apos;s yours.Walk down the hall and ask finance what your product org is working on this quarter. Then ask…

Three giga-IPOs are headed for Wall Street in quick succession. The machinery of passive investing will be compelled to buy. The question is whether the plumbing can take the pressure — and what…

part 1 check out these sponsored links. watch the same three videos on repeat in a loop. this album seems like your favourite, why not listen to it again. here are some things we think you might…

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this design-related emergency. If you want to see how to do a brand extension with a new product correctly, look to the CRKT Squid II. If you want…

Just started a new learning project today. For 90 days, I will be learning about mobility solely using audiobooks. Topics include mobility alternatives, the history of cars and life after it, and…

I had a lot of fun with a pencil for graphing a graffiti style versal. The pencil lets me fly around with light lines to find the right shapes, but I can still erase or crank up the density and line…

Since 260075bde769 ("tcp, udp, fwd: Run all port scanning from a single timer"), CALL_PROTO_HANDLER() has only one user (tcp), so inline it at the call site and remove the macro. Merge tcp_timer()…

Titanium Court replicates theatrical frameworks of storytelling but misses the most important part: The Point.

We've been composting our own humanure since we moved into our new house. We practiced doing it before moving in while building the house but now it's full time. At first it was kind of gross, took a…

&ldquo;The problem isn’t that most organisations don’t get tone of voice. It’s that most organisations don’t get writing, full stop. You’d think with all those mercurial benefits, businesses would be…

As we think about how to organize an After Capitalism society, a commons approach seems a vitally important place to start. It&#8217;s fair to assume that there will be opposition to the idea of a…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔-…

2026-06-02 Hello! This is written like an open letter, because why not. I put a half-hearted effort into it a few weeks ago after thinking of the vlogbrothers YouTube channel, and I think it would…

Hi there!&#x1F6E1;&#xFE0F;&#xA0;Security &amp; PrivacyInaudible sounds hidden in podcasts and videos can silently hijack AI voice chatbots, injecting malicious commands below the threshold of human…

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About thirty seconds into Aravind Srikumar&rsquo;s NFD40 talk, he said the thing that made me stop fidgeting and start paying attention: &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t announced any products yet.&rdquo;…

I'm currently back in the South, so it's timely that I revisit this five-year old post. Although Juneteenth remains a legal public holiday, President Trump unilaterally deleted both Juneteenth and…

MELBOURNE &#124; Across his 25-year career, chef Andy Beswick has cooked in kitchens across the UK, Southern France, and Australia. You might have encountered his food over the past few years as head…

And my quest to corrupt the web with human content

Every company has this person. The engineer who every production change flows through because they're the only one who knows the constraints. If you're thinking about putting AI agents anywhere near…

This is without doubt my worst spring in many years on the fishing front, yes I've been busy away on holiday, working a lot and lots of family engagements, but somehow I have still managed a…

Every last Sunday of the month, our flight club (now that I'm a paying member, I take particular pride in saying "our") arranges an open house event. My first one back in April as a guest was a…

Preface. This is a book review of Urbina&#8217;s &#8220;The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.&#8221; So many fishermen are enslaved for years, yet another reason to pay more…

When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, &#34;It's done when it's done!&#34; That talk was 15 years ago! Nothing in software is never truly…

suppose you're developing a theory of how the world works. if you're a software developer, you might be familiar with a concept of a game loop . you have some state and update function. you call the…

TIL of “sargable” conditions in SQL queries, which just means that an index can be used to speed up the query. One of those “you already know the concept, but the handle is useful” sort of things.

30 May 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Chris Brokaw and Fancy Weapon.Tortoise is one of those bands where it&apos;s an automatic &apos;yes&apos; when you see they&apos;re touring. Okay, it&apos;s…

You&rsquo;ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you&rsquo;ve used. It may have been the enforced…

a large part of the human experience is growing numb to the experiences that had once made us ridiculously happy…we just tend to take the things we have for granted, like they are a piece of…

A (curated) selection of music I personally discovered in Spring 2026. Featuring: Pebbles&TamTam, underscores, horsegiirL, Teen Suicide, Yazida, Cece Natalie, Onew, Billlie, Sakurazaka46, She Wants…

A write-up walkthrough on how to solve Bellingcat's After the Blast Charge Size open source challenge with answers.

Many autistics feel better after rest or time off, but crash again when life resumes. This article explores why rest alone may not be enough to recover from autistic burnout.

Surveyor 1 was the first lunar lander of the US space program. It lies in the Sea of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum).

I graded four frontier coding models on 50 real merged PRs in Go and Rust - not just whether tests pass, but craft, equivalence, and cost. Opus 4.8 led on craft in both.

There was a time when production Ops could be under the CIO. That time is over.

Save the date! Terra Umida, both the comic and the EP are finally coming out on June 13th! (Previously, previously and previously) Terra Umida EP by Kurodama The comic has been unofficially out for…

I&#8217;ve never read so few books as I do now. After 15 minutes of reading, my mind races back to my projects. So, I&#8217;m having to pick the ones I&#8217;m really interested in. I&#8217;ve…