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As a designer, I see lots of little problems in the world. I look at something in search of its flaws. I will be bothered that things have to be the way they are. And then I channel that negative energy into finding solutions to those...
Chris from uncountable thoughts is hosting this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic on purpose. This is my first participation in such a carnival, and its been fun, if a little challenging on my noggin. Purpose: A single word that evokes...
0700: pull out from Canberra station. It’s drizzling and the cloud hangs in low sadness around the wide sweeps. Soon the mist breaks before blue-cream granite gorges. An ancient serpent, the tea brown Molonglo river, follows for a while...
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Like the rest of us, poets often favor certain times of the year. They return to a season or month they find thematically or emotionally rich. Keats, obviously, was an autumn man. Winter I associate with Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost....
There is a familiarity to Jackson, IL, and for good reason. The town is rooted in the reality of Jacksonville, Illinois. I have not made an exact copy of it; my version of Jackson is fictional, put through the wringer and bent toward...
Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 23mm f/2.8 WR lens
Tuesday 25th August 2026 Among the many changes to bus routes on the western fringes of Essex at the end of last month was the introduction of new route 19 between North Weald and High Ongar taking in a circuitous route via Epping,...
Sunday night here in Austin, I was lucky enough to go to a talk that Professor Jiang gave. He is the guy from Predictive History, and he uses classic books and knowledge from the past to get stuff right and to figure out what's coming....
Apple has reversed its decision to move Hide My Email addresses to a separate private.icloud.com domain that would have make it easier for others to differentiate between ‘real’ and pseudo email addresses. Why was this even considered,...
You’d naturally be skeptical of advice on how to throw dice from a leading casino dice manufacturer, even though they obviously know a lot about dice. You’d be perhaps even more skeptical if it turned out that their track record at the...
David Nield: Six decades on, the view has lost none of its impact. ~ Link: Five Images, Six Decades: Capturing the Iconic “Earthrise” Photo, by David Nield, Nautilus
3D? ScreenX? Ultra AVX? WTF? ~ Link: Movie Theater Headache, by Ariadne, Noisy Deadlines
Photo by Alin Andersen on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the… Read more
I write code roughly the same way I did ten years ago: I make edits in my text editor, I switch over to a terminal window and I run a command to compile and execute the code. I look at the result, then switch back to my editor. If I am...