I went for a walk today. No destination, no idea how far; I turned wherever the light was green and ambled unhurriedly. My thoughts followed me like a dozen frantic shadows, scattering and regrouping between sights of happy trees and fading murals.Listening to: “Vous Dansez” by KZAReply via email

It’s a beautiful day and these trees are beaming. Reply via email

The weather was cold, dark, and wet yesterday, which mirrors how I’ve been feeling lately. Underneath all the gloom and seemingly oblivious to the storm, a stream of lights rushed to and fro; always traveling, never arriving.Reply via email

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/Improved memory efficiency, lowering the baseline memory footprint for Windows, freeing up more capacity for the apps you runThe memory crisis is terrible, but big software vendors optimizing for reduced capacity is long overdue....

Sign-ups for Issue Two of the Internet Phone Book are now open. I received Issue One last year and a lot of ya’ll emailed me about not seeing the sign-up form go out, so here ya go. Let’s be neighbors!Reply via email

Josh Tumath on the new text scaling feature in Chrome Canary:Just like how the <meta name=viewport> tag tells the browser that your website is designed to work for small viewport sizes, the <meta name=text-scale> tells the browser, 'Hey, I've designed my website to still work if the user increases their OS text...

The plot device is an organism with strange adaptations which enable it to consume stars. There is a surprising amount of science involved, but it is delivered so nonchalantly that even if you weren’t interested in any of the geeky bits you’d have a great time. It checks all the boxes for me:☑️ Funny☑️ SPACEI was...

Last time I wrote this out was…2023? I thought things had changed, but it looks like my days of frantic switching have subsided somewhat and this list has largely stayed the same. I’m still using Apple’s horrendous excuses for software despite everything, and in some cases (podcasts, passwords, books), I’ve gone...

Stopped at Oromo Cafe in Bucktown on the way back from the dentist and they’re playing Big Thief, Wednesday, and Horsegirl. I love it. They make a good pumpkin latte too. Reply via email

I saw Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki making the rounds a while ago. It reads a lot like Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art—that is to say, it reads like it was written in short, forced sessions and there is a lot of repetitive messaging. A collection of blog posts in book form. Both books detail their author’s...

Went out with the coworkers to see the holiday train. There’s a section in the middle with a Santa pretender in a sleigh, and wow I bet that’s a cold ride. Reply via email

Okay we’re almost halfway into November with this one. Sorry, I was waiting for COSPLAY, and I’m so glad I did. Highlights: “Echoes”, “Life In This Body”.Minute/Year:Minute/Year is an automated, process-based, durational work, in which sound is played, recorded, and layered, in a resonant space, for one minute each...