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One thing I’ve noticed over the last few months is how my OmniFocus has become a bit of a black hole. Over the course of a week I’ll input a bunch of tasks, but beyond moving them out of the inbox and into their relevant projects not...
The sky has a real Highlander 2 vibe right now.
The best installment of the Slavers series of modules. Originally Published March 16th, 2002 This review builds on my review of A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity. It’s probably a good idea to read that review, located here, before reading...
NOTE I used LLMs to help debug some of the code explained below, and ended up throwing away a lot of it while re-reviewing that work as part of writing this post. People have strong opinions on the use of LLMs and I don’t want them to...
The Old Icelandic Calendar, called Misseristal (translated as semester count), was started in the 10th century, continued until the 01700s, but its shadow lives on today. The calendar was designed to have exactly 12 months of 30 days....
The trailer has dropped for the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a feature-film version of Sense and
Arvind Kurian AbrahamAs fireworks lit up the sky this Fourth of July, the United States of America turned 250. Barring the heatwave, the celebrations were spectacular, the patriotism genuine, and the questions, as ever, complicated....
Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”There’s a lot...
Link: We are not alone, by Adiel Kaplan at the Tow-Knight CenterI was delighted to be included in this roundup by Adiel Kaplan, the Program Director at the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of...
I recently learned from a blog comment that Herman Chernoff passed away last week at the age of 103. He was born the same year as my dad. I first met Chernoff–it’s not like he was a particularly formal guy, but I can’t imagine calling...
I gave three short talks at this year’s HTTP Workshop. Increase and evolve HTTP/3 & QUIC Slides: mxinden-bot.github.io/slides/04-quic-discussion A discussion deck. HTTP/3 sits around 30% and has plateaued. I cover the ways to measure...
There need to be more movies about rambunctious old ladies. In fact—there just need to be more rambunctious old ladies. Note, I wrote Ladies. We don’t need more rampaging elderly men; we have enough of them on our daily news scoop of...
We never gave our daughter chores to do around the house when she still lived with us. This runs against the current of most of the parenting counsel out there. Her school officially recommended it for all families. Even our pediatrician...
Project Runway 22 episode 2 brought back the jury of designers, and somehow it's even worse this season! Let's recap all the ways this episode went awry.
Boak and Bailey made a point a couple of weeks ago which struck a chord with me. They said "We’ve decided to spend a week blogging like it’s 2008 again: more posts, shorter posts, and more bouncing off other bloggers." Ah the good old...