I haven't written a note in a while. A couple weeks I'd say. And it's not that I don't know what to talk about or that I don't want to. It's just that in life you are given 24 hours each day, and you…

I would like to share what I dreamt of last night. In my hometown, there is a hotel on the top of the mountain. When we were teenagers, we often went there because one of my friends worked there as a…

It could be a formal interviewing process that a software engineer goes through or even a happy hour in your neighborhood but one of the more challenging experiences we can realize in our lives is…

A consistent by-product of periods of intense building (software, a book, a team) — really anything where I am heads-down focusing on the craft — is that all the utilities and habits surrounding…

I’m speechless.

maladaptive daydreaming is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off

We have been raising money for St Jude Children's Research hospital since 2019. Today we passed a total of five million dollars raised since we began.I am so proud of what a community of…

Apps for the neurodivergent — and everyone else Martin Höller builds apps for people with busy minds. The most popular one works by refusing to let you ignore it. Höller is originally from Graz,…

Como dije en mi último boletín, no hay nada como no pasar calor para no odiar el verano. Volvimos a Mataró el 28 de agosto y desde entonces voy arrastrándome por la vida, con cero energía para hacer…

Teams in various modes like... Forming, Norming & Performing! We often diagnose teams through the visible symptoms: delivery is slow, meetings are messy, ownership feels weak, decisions keep reopening

This is not really my gig, but I thought I should at least attempt to feel my way through the political aspects of work that we career practitioners tend to shy away from. From my reading, it seems…

Raising children and being part of the village

Week of Sept 6 🫩 Work has been absolutely batshit crazy lately. I’m so burned out, and so, so tired. 🍎 Apple held their “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday....

For three weeks in May this year, I was a volunteer at the Eurovision Song Contest one of the largest music event in the world. This year held in my home town of Vienna and I knew I couldn’t…

I’m part of a small group at work that focuses on making our house inspection protocols read as clearly as possible for the clients. We’re spread out across the country and submit our suggestions in…

““It sounds incredibly mundane to talk about it now, a friendship measured in video calls and commit messages, but then the word mundane comes from the Latin mundi, or world....

Notes from Week 37. The post Wk 37-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

money was always a taboo for me. for quite long i thought my family was part of the middle class. i never realized the school i studied and my parents paid fully was something out of most Brazilians…

I’m down in Eugene to help Ben with his car. We ordered Indian, watched a David Cronenberg movie, and then went out for drinks. On the way home, we were standing at a corner waiting for a light when…

A fun thought exercise for your next museum trip.

Eugene

Celebrating Cocoa's birthday for the first time without her.

This edition took a while: partly because life happens, but mostly because I got dragged into a spectacularly messy rabbit hole that started with a Neovim issue tracker and spiraled into platform…

Watch Listen “If the environment is controlled, behavior is controlled.” B. F. Skinner I paid two to three times what the same condo cost outside the city. It was the tail end of a 3-year…

A few things have come together over the past few months that feel less like separate announcements and more like a single shift in trajectory. So here’s the update. I’ve been appointed a Nonresident…

Week ending Sep 13 2026 An Obsidian... ට Life ට Games ට Plushie of the Week #245 ට Dreams

My pick: listed first. Home team: CAPS. Post-game comments, if any, in italics. I actually finished in the black last season – especially after hitting it big in the Super Bowl – so…

what's your favourite technology? climate grief and not finishing things.

    I can't make everyone truly happy with what we are building on the software side.I help oversee our website, app, people management system (Rock RMS), and several other software…

    Writing, editing, and promoting How Not to Invest sucked up a lot of time over the past 2 years. One of the items that fell off my calendar was the weekend car posts. Other than an…

Deciding to stop reading a book is an art form in itself. I think many people never get into reading because they haven't found the right book for them and aren't willing to give up quickly enough…

Dance like no one is watchingI was driving this afternoon in Hong Kong and saw flashing headlights in my rearview mirror. A driver who had been speeding was suddenly tailgating me and wanted to pass.…

Every day the world throws a plate of spaghetti in your face. And if you wake up in the morning saying, "I will not tolerate having a plate of spaghetti thrown in my face," you'll have a very bad…

A week of big and small changes this week! Lets process it all!

2026 San Francisco Pen Show Highlights September 13th, 2026 2026 has been a busy year, in no small part due to a lot of pen show travel. I wanted to return to the San Francisco Pen Show to see the…

By Kollengode S Venkataraman, (September 2026) People cherish friends whom they have known for a long time, or those who have interacted in domains outside their fields where they earn their living.…

Collecting things can quickly turn into hoarding things. Can you tell the difference? Then you should come over here and tell me, because I sure can’t.Although I don’t consider myself to…

I would like to congratulate the wind, for winning the Great Reno Balloon Race this year.

What's up. What's going on. What am I doing, reading, interesting stuff to share that I don't feel like making a separate page for. I don't expect myself to keep this super regularly updated or fully…

What city has the worst drivers? This week’s blog post answers that question and many others with chuckleworthy cartoons.

—matic gunfire.

I'm not sure if it's just a phase or if something happened, but she's very hard to read at the moment. One second, she's happily being brushed in her basket; the next, she swats at my hand because…

Zoo Advertises Tickets for ‘Child Predator Tour’

Life The bus to the station was deathly quiet again this morning. Apart from a baby crying. It is getting easier to live now, although everything is still in the back of my mind. I simply can't…

Yesterday my wife lost the picture on the TV in her bedroom and called DirecTV Customer Support on the phone. The call went on for quite a while (as such calls do) with the support person having my…

The iPhone Duo is here. Well, not here here. I don’t have one. But I did write about it for Stuff, saying what I want to do with the iPhone Duo (hint: not a…

  source: Louis Iruela    It’s easy to lose touch with people after leaving school. Life has its way of pulling us in different directions, whether that’s having a 9-5 right after…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot…

Vocal fry, anti bucket list, Mr Twiddle’s Wee Diddy Farm (Deluxe). The post The half century | weeknotes 13 September 2026 first appeared on Neil Williams.

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Chatbots & their "safeguards," eavesdroppy "Smart TVs," and how age gating still is not it. 🌞 Good News! : Alternative navigation apps exist!, AI bans in…