Bubbles
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May 31, 2026
Niceness as a skill to game theory, photographic memory myths, solar-powered websites, Earth's radio bubble, and the hidden cost of taking yourself too seriously.
It occurs to me that I have been writing essays for most of my life. At some point, early in life, the thought of writing an essay, a.k.a., a book report, filled me with dread. I’m not sure why, except that it was work I had to do and I...
Docker compose supports the use of profiles to start services conditionally or on-demand. This is useful to mark some services as optional. The use of `required: false` `depends_on` relationships allows to retain the startup ordering if...
This weekend, I’m back with some more optical media testing, as I’ve amassed a large collection just waiting for me to discover how well they work, or if they still work at all. This time, we’re looking at four different … Continue...
[YouTube embed] I really enjoyed this Becca Farsace video and what it has to say about creativity and constraints. I have absolutely zero interest in a £1599 black and white...
A lot was happening this week. So here are fragmented updates instead of a single overarching theme. Thirteen years ago today, the Gezi Park protests started in Istanbul. Those were glorious days of a rebellion that was and still is...
For years, the Microsoft OneNote app on iPhone was solid. It wasn’t flashy. But it was a reliable hub for organizing things that worked well on desktop and mobile alike. Over the past couple of years, it has languished. And what’s...
A look at Windows baseline behaviour through the lens of observability, telemetry, and detection engineering.
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I got nerdsniped by a bloody Reddit post! In 2015, the UK Government launched a new passport design. It immediately attracted negative press for its designers' "sexist" decision to feature more men than women. The government has been...
This week's newsletter focuses on my project definition framework, an interesting essay on being both engineer and artist in the AI era and some Claude Design limits for design systems. Also don't miss 2 beautiful technical dataviz, and...