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Prompt from Ava, via Cattasticks. Fitting for Blaugust! I've seen this survey floating around the discovery feed and it's time I finally filled it out. Why did you make the blog in the first place? I was searching for a creative outlet...
Phew! I made it. Though I’m a bit light on links for ya today, there’s a lot goin’ on at the moment - I’m swamped busy, just the way I like it. Jorijn Schrijvershof, the guy behind toot.community, announced on July 28th that the server...
Read the full post at - 5 Reasons You Should Use Mozilla Firefox for Your Browser I’ve been watching the browser wars play out for over 20 years now. I watched Firefox beat Internet Explorer. I watched Chrome rise to dominance. And I’ve...
Michael Gilleland at Laudator Temporis Acti posted a quote from Patrick Kurp to highlight the erroneous Aristotle reference (“Perhaps he meant Poetics instead of Politics”), but I was struck by the word rhupunts. I’m pretty sure I’ve...
‘I started writing because no one had yet given me the words I needed. So I wrote them myself.’ https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/127936-000-A/ingeborg-bachmann-rebel-poet/?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=127936-000-A
Next week I'm running a session with our product and engineering leadership on how AI is changing the product management role. To prepare, I read the people who've shaped how product managers think about the job (Marty Cagan, Melissa...
An exhibition at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, You Are Here: Transit Cartography and Spatial Identity, explores the evolving design language of transit maps and the relationship of that design language with… More
Keep it coming: the video store resurrection continues. The Video Store Minneapolis kicks off its physical store fundraiser and clinches the base goal in two days Joshua M. Greenberg ponders video stores as a lost third place I recall...
Content warning: this post includes offensive imagery. One of my tasks for the next two weeks is to put together my syllabus for NYU’s new music history class on 20th century American popular music. To start the semester off, I wanted to...
Arrived in Porto, Portugal! 🇵🇹
ScreenshotThe post Kindertrauma Funhouse first appeared on kindertrauma.
A friend on facebook says that Hamnet contains a pretty serious error — naming the Costwolds the Chilterns (or, pretty much equivalently, mislocating the Chilterns between Stratford and Oxford). I’m not sure that would ruin the book for...
Calculus professors with no experience in numerical computing will tell students that computers calculate trig functions with power series. They don’t. I worked on the implementation of trig functions in hardware, and I can assure you we...
After a week of ghosting round the house by myself, my wife and children and back. Let me share some emotional slop (as opposed to AI slop) about what a privilege it is to have them around. This morning I got woken up early (6:15am) and...