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I was waking up and doing the thing that you’re not supposed to: looking at my phone. Not so much doomscrolling but maybe catching up with texts. I didn’t have anything to catch up to so, as I do lately, I started going through my chat...
Big thanks to The Fat Hipster for shooting this over. So I’ve sampled Rap Snacks instant noodles before with pretty low scores. I’m hopeful that this new set will be better, but I guess I’ll have to try them to know for sure. I do like...
Regular readers of Tet Zoo will – I hope – be familiar with taxonomic vandalism… Put simply, this is the phenomenon whereby rebellious individuals, typically working outside of institutional academia, seek to formally name or rename the...
This blog post rounds up nearly 20 Section 230 cases (and adjacent cases), mostly from the past four months, that for whatever reason I didn’t cover in a standalone blog post. Section 230’s effects are waning overall, but this post will...
The team at Dinamo Typefaces write a fun newsletter. In the latest issue, their team introduced an updated version of their font, Gravity. In the release notes, you’ll find a 10-page original manga, hand drawn by graphic designer Melanie...
Random thoughts too long for a Mastodon post, but not long enough for a full-blown post. ✍️ I’m not sure what has gotten into me, but I’ve been writing a lot more on this blog in July. Today’s Randoming post will be my fourth entry this...
With the quarter finals soon upon us, you know that the end is in sight. I'm rooting for those who have yet to win the World Cup. Here are my ideal results, although I'm not sure if they will pan out. France vs Morocco: Morocco 🇲🇦 Spain...
“So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan is to roll it out to more than 50,000 public employees. It is also using OpenProject. For now, the plan is to keep...
There's definitely something to be said for simplicity of concept, just as there's something exciting about an artist following their interests and passions, creating a comic book not necessarily because they have something important to...
Replace DC with Result BandsThe D20 is annoyingly chaotic and setting DCs is likewise annoying. Better to control them: 1 Critical failure 2-10 Failure 11-15 Partial success 16-19 Success 20 Critical success These result bands only apply...
I know its a little late in the month to talk about my planner set-up but with the long weekend and my impending trip to Portland for the PNW Pen Show, things have been a little topsy turvy. This month, I built another mermaid theme for...
One of the biggest limitations of quantum quantum computing is the “no cloning” theorem, which says you cannot copy a quantum state without destroying the original. If you could copy quantum states without harming the original, much of...
Back in November, I wrote a substack post describing various dimension of political moderation. You can go read the longer details, but here’s the abridged list: You have a middle-ground position on a policy issue(s). The classic...
In the latest round of email industry consolidation, cloud communications giant Infobip has announced its acquisition of email marketing and infrastructure platform SocketLabs. Infobip is a global cloud communications platform focused...
If you love something, you need to find time in your life to pursue it. To engage with it. To feel alive. To feel worthy enough. When you love something more than yourself, you need to be involved in it. That involvement gives you the...