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MOST ANYTHING HAS TO BE BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE: This Startup Wants to Build a Better Microwave Beep.
If you enjoyed sipping a word like brandy with Doris Lessing, then get comfortable for a bumper pack of similes and metaphors courtesy of Ross Macdonald and his story collection The Archer Files (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2015), edited...
I write this thinking of everyone who had to build themselves from scratch in a foreign country, who had to put their pride aside and took the low-wage job to make ends meet, who only have themselves for a safety net. In such position, I...
So BMW dropped an ad for Spider Man into the big dumb video dashboard. I mean, did we really think advertisers weren’t going to find a way to weasel their way onto those dashboard displays? It’s prime real estate, esp when you can target...
We covered in the last blog post how to install bun, a new package manager. In this blog post, we will look into using bun to install a new Playwright framework. Create the Playwright FrameworkOnce I installed bun on my Windows PC and...
jj bookmark advance is a relatively new feature1 of Jujutsu that replaced the nearly ubiquitous jj tug alias that moved bookmarks to the "tip" of their respective commit DAGs. The way it works is by moving the matched bookmarks to the...
🔖 Read Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis? (New York Times). how much more do I need to parse effluvia of my own personhood? Right?
Adam Mastroianni: Incentives are for losers. With a reference to Dagon, a short story in which a man goes insane after seeing a weird fish. Mastroianni equates the fish to our unchecked and unquestioned assumptions which would fall apart...
WHOOPS: Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is Leaking Users’ Real IP Addresses - MacRumors. As it protects Safari, not the full communications from your device, other important parts of a web transaction can slip around iCloud Private Relay....
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and in author Shami Stovall’s case, her desire to get back at those who have wronged her ended up being just what she needed to write a John Wick-esque revenge story. Sharpen your skills and your...
ALTThe cover of a book cataloguing an exhibition of Santiago Calatrava’s 1996 proposal for City Point (then with a space), A new Tower for the City, taken from an AbeBooks listing.This was the start of the process of reworking Britannic...
Like many other staples of the American diet, eggs enjoyed relatively stable pricing until the post-COVID era. However, ever since Americans began feeling squeezed financially, they’ve become ground zero for the political battleground...
Hello again! It's funny how after one week of attempting the 30-day writing challenge I just stopped posting at all. I really hated writing the same "I don't have anything to write today" everyday. And after that I just kinda left...
I read Coyote's Bubbles is a New Way of Recreating Old Problems which expresses so well why I am wary of this kind of thing. Not Bubbles specifically but the general mood. Which is that I try to stay away from anything that feels like a...
Didn’t think I’d see one of these again unless it arrived from overseas – but I found this in a local Asian market which made me very happy. This contains a stewed egg which I’ve never seen in anything I’ve found in the United States....