The Independent Variable
The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.
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plain-form.com via robinsloan.com Pure insanity. Ferro Mono Black?! Are you kidding me?! And Black IV??? What??? I feel like I’m going into shock looking at these letterforms. Beautiful, delightful, should not exist.
defector.com Don’t go giving me hope now…
youtube.com So. Damn. Good. Armand Hammer is incredible as always. I think the reason rap stands out to me more on Tiny Desk is two fold. First, I think rap is just better in a more intimate setting as opposed to someone rapping loudly...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency You tried to add ketchup. What is wrong with you? Your total is $12.99.As a Chicagoan who puts ketchup on their hotdog I feel very conflicted about this.
Defector And so we have his vision of The Odyssey, a massive, operatic cinematic experience mostly about the story's own operatic massiveness. In many ways, Nolan especially has always been making The Odyssey from the inside out,...
futurefonts.com FC Lead is using the constraints of merging pieces of glass together with lead into one solid drawing. Counterparts are created with light without any unnecessary cuts. Resulting in unconventional letters.🤯I have one...
aphera.co I played around with the beta of this and got a little confused, but finally watched the quick two minute demo and it instantly clicked for me. I highly recommend checking Aphera out. It's fast and a delight to use--plus you...
struthless.org I'm a big fan of Struthless, his art style, his books, his general mindset. He also makes these cool zines, worksheets, and prompted journaling exercises I've downloaded in the past. Well he now as this killer retro site...
larp.website Not sure it’s a good sign I thought there was a chance this was real and not satire.
nytimes.com He spent the past 19 seasons as a television analyst on the Bulls’ game broadcasts and hosted a popular podcast called “Gimme the Hot Sauce.”Catching up on old links and this was an old one that hit me hard and didn't want to...
codex.humdrum.me One more terminal app for good measure! Been working on this one for awhile now and it's already my main driver for writing anything. It's designed to be a standalone text editor, but you can also set a vault, daily note...
codex.humdrum.me A terminal dashboard for live sports — Plain Text Sports meets Golazo, as a Bubble Tea TUI.Been working on this one for a bit, but it's basically ready for primetime now. I took inspiration from Plain Text Sports and the...
emmaburnett.uk via bookshop.org It’s been two weeks since my novella was released, and the actions of my publisher, and the online response this has generated, have made it impossible for me to market my book. From what I can tell, the...
fivepoints.mattglassman.net via publicannouncement.org This is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a...
techcrunch.com Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including Anthropic’s Claude Code or Cursor.AI fanatics love to say “this is the worst...