Dang! I love this automated book review and publish setup by Katy Decorah. She made a GitHub action called read-action to fetch the metadata of a book and add it to a yaml file on her website. After that, Katy then made an iOS Shortcut to review the book from her phone, grab the metadata from that pull request and...

Jon Lovett’s 2013 commencement speech is great: One of the greatest threats we face, simply put, is bullshit. We are drowning in it [...] I believe we are at peak bullshit.

Here's a fabulous talk by Jonathan Blow about the quality of software, video games, and...ahem...the end of civilization. One of the really interesting parts of this talk is when Blow mentions just how much energy is required to teach the next generation; information is often lost in the process and—because of this...

Anna Wiener: Just as there is “podcast voice”—that inquisitive, staccato bedtime-story cadence—there is Substack tone, a semi-professional quality suited to mass e-mail. Some newsletters convey intimacy, in the language of psychotherapy and self-help, but their style is more polished and structured than that of the...

I spotted Etna the other day and it’s pretty remarkable. It’s a new typefamily by Mark Simonson, inspired by wood type in the 19th century, and the micro-site is so much fun even if you absolutely hate fonts and your nemesis is a .woff file. Ahem, anyway—this litte site lets you click-clack different chunks of text...

Borges was a racist. And Borges wrote beautiful things. The latter does not excuse the former but I struggle to live in a world where both of these things can be true. I've always struggled with it, in fact. Read The Book of Sand and try to walk away from it without higher hopes for us all. It is pure electric; the...

I’m running out of books, and I need your help. It looks like I’ll be spending Christmas alone here in San Francisco and so I need copious distractions. So: what is your favorite winter book? The sort of books that you associate most closely with the holidays and being wrapped up inside with? I guess the first book...

I’ve been reading The Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel where he looks at those two epic poems and before you yawn and click away—wait! This book sure is yawn inducing from a mile away, but up close I think it’s extremely interesting. That’s because these sorts of books are usually quite often terrible....

Last night was manic and dizzying, and it all began with re-reading Alberto Manguel’s book A Reader on Reading. Manguel is one of my favorite writers and if you’ve never read or even heard his name then go and pick up The Library at Night immediately. I command you. If you’ve ever liked anything I’ve ever written...

Sentry is looking for a senior product designer to join the team in Vienna. We’re doing a bunch of exciting work and I wouldn’t link to it here unless I loved my current gig. Also! Get in touch if you’re interested and have any questions about Sentry’s culture or what we’re working on. I’m always happy to chat about...

This was the job: sit in the tractor, break the ice, save the world. It was boredom beyond boredom, the sort of monotony that stretched out all day long, but each time Marlo climbed into his tractor, the world became safer by a smudge. Never let the ice touch the land. Never let it grow. On one side of the tractor,...

This video by Tom Scott about the early history of the web and how we found ourselves in a nightmare of popups and bad web design is worthy of your time. Tom walks through the EU’s legal confrontation with shady advertisers and why so many people are incentivized to be jerks. Something like this comes around every...