Thu May 22
My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas.
Reducing the digital clutter of chats I hate modern chats. They presuppose we are always online, always available to chat. They force us to see and think about them each time we get our eyes on one of our devices. Unlike mailboxes, they are never empty. We can’t even easily search through old messages (unlike the...
Jony and Sammy are cooking up something fierce. As you definitely already know, Jony Ive & his team and OpenAI are now working on… something new, and AI-y.It’s being worked on in secrecy and stealth to avoid imitation, which I understand, but it leads to a weird promise of a promise that’s hard to feel confident...
Links A Summer Retrospective by Gracia Ventus in The Rosenrot — a beautiful outfit log!! I spent ages scrolling through her instagram and admiring her style, and now feel like I need to reinvent my wardrobe!! Internet Phone Book by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost — now, sadly, sold out online, but a very charming...
When writing Go applications, it’s common to configure runtime behavior using environment variables. But what happens when an environment variable isn’t set? Falling back to a default value is a typical pattern. The cmp package’s Or function, introduced in Go 1.22 provides a clean way to express this. The Problem #...
TitleThe Internet's Own Boy CreatorBrian Knappenberger Year2014 Kindfilm Watched2025-05-23
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞️ 16 mm focal length – 1/60″ at f/11 – ISO 125 📍 Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, United States – Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) and Pueblos land
I was pointed to an article on Cosmographia which in turn shared an archive of photos taken in 19th century Japan. These are amazing photos, but what struck me was how familiar some of them felt. Photos taken from 150 years ago should feel like looking into another world, but some of these scenes, the architecture,...
So, remember that whole thing about me giving up TikTok? I did that. And I feel good about it. But, like junkies everywhere, I just replaced one drug with another. And it isn’t really that much of a surprise as to what took TikTok’s place: YouTube. Now, as a YouTuber, I’ve always spent a lot of time on Google’s...
You wake at 05:30 in the morning, feeling somewhat groggy. Instead of the alarm clock ringing like it normally does, a cheerful hologram appears: “Hi! I’m Kyle, your new alarm clock assistant!” You get dressed as Kyle explains all of the fantastic things he is capable of. You head over to the coffee machine. “Hey...