I’ve recently read Using Plaintext Email by Kev and completely agreed with his reasoning on why reasons noted on the website are a bit silly, but that also got me thinking, why is Plain-text really better? Why do I personally prefer it? Although I am one of those nerds preferring to use command line email client...

publication, University of Performing Arts and Music, Austria ||| A chapter in the book 'Swap Spaces', which documents the 2022 project 'Swap Space' which I was a collaborating artist on. The chapter is a poetic reflection that documents how the work came together, and how I saw my own role in the broader...

October 26, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding 🦀 Rust Meetup @ Microsoft's Reactor Building Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a monthly meetup about the Rust programming language held at the Microsoft Reactor building, hosted by the Seattle Rust User Group. "Brad G", who is also in the rotation for sending out...

I loathe the term "user experience designer", because I still believe that "user experience" is just a fundamental to what you're doing, and shouldn't need stating. There is nothing but user experience design if you're building products for people. — Frances Berriman

While I was in San Francisco for a tech conference this month, I took the opportunity to visit the Internet Archive — the actual physical archive in the California town of Richmond, about twenty minutes drive from San Francisco. I’d bought a ticket to “go behind–the-scenes at the physical archive” on Wednesday, Oct....

October 25, 2023 Fastmail has folders that can auto-purge emails? This feature lets you automatically delete messages from a folder after a certain amount of time. I’ve found it to be a great way to manage notification emails that I want to keep for a while, but not forever. Here’a how to set up an auto-purge...

“Evidence is increasing, therefore, that a rapid reorganisation of atmospheric and ocean circulation (time-scales of several decades or more) can occur during inter-glacial periods without human interference.” from IPCC TAR - Working Group I: The Scientific Basis Image licensed under CC-BY: Becker, D., Verheul, J.,...