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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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...
pitchfork.com Over the weekend, 15 previously unreleased covers appeared on Rivers Cuomo’s YouTube page with little explanation and even less warningI get that people hate on Weezer because their new music isn’t great (or even good...
lexingtonalarm.org via gillianbrockell.com Love to see it! A live map to track ICE flights to know when they could be coming to your city. Feels like an important thing to share so maybe go and do that.
mcsweeneys.net via thingstoclick.com 13. Bread. What your grandma thinks Zohran wants.Things to Click already nailed the best one, but this one I pulled is fun as well. Lots of great lines.
youtube.com I discovered Cure for Paranoia last year (or the year before..?) when they were doing a new rap song every day that got very political. It was superb. Then I learned about all their Tiny Desk submission videos: superb again....
napavalleyregister.com 12 judges, 20 wines, the finest bottles Burgundy and Bordeaux could offer, alongside a handful of upstart California labels that most of the French wine establishment had never heard of. When the scores were...
emilyadel.lol via naiveweekly.com This is really creepy... but also a cool way to take something creepy and make something cool on the internet with it... I can't get myself to actually listen to any of these... but the rest of Emily's...