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20260305: That's because design docs serve the same organizational function that waterfall's requirements phase served in the 1970s: they create an artifact that can be reviewed, approved, and blamed.

20260305: Google slides are bad.

20260301: "When kids ask a difficult question[...]simply ask, in earnest, 'what do you think?' and listen."

20260223: An article from years ago about an Iranian software developer who was detained, psychologically tortured, and eventually extorted upon release back to his home. It's wrapped up in the extremely reckless and unhumane behavior of the United States government in early 2020 towards Iran. Worth revisiting as time moves on in our current political climate here in the US.

20260222: "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." -- Alan J. Perlis, 1982_

20260122: A slick idea to trun an apple watch into a mini phone-like thing. Good idea for a minimalist phone with friction to stop you from using it too often.

20260122: This is a very depressing look at the reality of AI today; "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" is an essay from a man in Nairobi who essentially had to impersonate multiple personas and lie constantly to users help train AI bots. Incredibly deftly written and powerful.

20251216: Celine!!!

20251216: This poem hits me over and over every few months.

20251125: The poverty line as we know is *grossly* misconfigured. If we calculated it correctly according to the previous standards, our poverty line would be well over 100k per year in the US.

20251125: I have always hated smart vacuums, but this really solidified my hatred for them and for modern appliances in general.

20251108: Zapatismo is not an ideology, it is not a bought and paid for doctrine. It is ... an intuition. Something so open and flexible that it really occurs in all places. Zapatismo poses the question: 'What is it that has excluded me?' 'What is it that has isolated me?'

20251030: A great explainer on "linguistic fantasy" and how subtly annoying it is.

20251030: A prettier-style autoformatter for Python, finally!

20250726: Getting "komooted" is the sad verb of getting bought out by a large uninterested entity to gut and milk your business.

20250724: Never learned this one. Double dragon knot, good alternative to the bowline that has a few more uses.

20250724: A good page on handling the inefficiency of breaking news coverage.

20250513: Another video from the same guy as the Finale video, but about the absurdity of reality TV soundtracks. It's my favorite kind of comedy.

20250513: A fantastic little fever dream about the horrible UI/UX of Finale music notation software and the history of the company. Amazing.

20250506: A cool way to see electrical usage, using this electrical meter.

20250505: A bunch of great tips for woodworking. Real gem of a web 1 style site. No fluff, just good stuff.

20250503: Found these shoes recommended by this cool musician Wizardmaster. Vegan and apparently wildly durable (8 years for them!).

20250419: Excellent deep dive into optimizing SM64's RNG

20250418: Great video essay on curry, love it

20250415: Saw a friend make one of these origami flexagons, looks like a great lo-fi fidget toy.

20250402: Interesting video from Katherout about moving 5 minutes away from their friends and the life benefits it had for her.

20250330: Someone making shitposts about if Kitchen Nightmares was made about tech companies. I would watch the crap out of this.

20250319: Roujin Z is a wild slapstick sci-fi anime. Can't explain much more, just watch it.

20250317: XTC's Scissor Man, forgot about this classic.

20250310: Cool website for alternative non-big-corp software of all kinds.

20250310: Didn't know that change.org is for profit. For profit essentially means "We will sell your data", so there you go.

20250308: Really high quality puerh from China. Heard that their house brand is great.

20250308: Mullvad is a sick #VPN, seems like a good model and works better than my previous one.

20250306: "Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key" - Key #reuse is way more common than I thought, #security