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: Whenever I get down on my job, I need to remember I’ve incorporated command line tools called …

: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is now punk If you’re in a web development job where you find yourself occasionally writing HTML, CSS and …

: the internet was good to me today

: Everything is amazing, nobody is happy Did you never tell your phone, “Hey Siri, scan a document,” and then watch it pull up …

: We moved to a JiT model for laundry and it a) is better and b) sure makes it look like I have too …

: Full-stack engineer sure is a fancy way to write “generalist.”

: Visionless (a Vision Pro take) Behold the Apple Vision Pro. The first new product category from Apple that I haven’t …

: How to enjoy yourself when you've been conned online DISCLAIMER: This is not advice. Don’t do dumb shit on the internet like I do from time to …

: The internet I care about has become a lot smaller Time was you got to the end of the internet. Not the wholee internet of course, but the blogs, …

: How I try to email My yearly digital tidy and email hygiene reset everything in the inbox(es) as of Jan. 2: mark as …

: I made music with John and put it on the streaming platforms Spotify Apple Music

: My next OLED TV probably just gets strapped to my face Frankly, I think everyone is so focused on comparing Vision Pro to the Quest 3 that they’re missing …

: THE PURITANICAL EYE: HYPER-MEDIATION, SEX ON FILM, AND THE DISAVOWAL OF DESIRE this is so good. i …

: Duke libraries drop Basecamp. Don’t fuck with librarians: they’re experts at reading between the …

: self-merching / self-care It started with this deal on stickers last year. $29 / roll of 100, die cut stickers. The kids were …

: regularly marking the whole inbox as read and moving things into a $currentYear folder is a high …

: chatgpt made an audio processing script for me just because you want to be studio boy with logic pro doesn’t mean you take your eye off the …

: reading these lamentations of the internet and social media of yore popular in the last month or so. …

: the internet is broken and we can fix it if people want to make the internet more like the 90s / 00s, let’s do it and let’s do it …

: I’m 38 and just starting to understand that I’m allowed to organize my clothes however my brain …

: “Judah this is the heigth of musical accomplishment by Western civilization. It was Beethoven, then …

: how to rebuild a read it later habit

: I see you toast, making Apple Pay less convenient because you want “express checkout with toast” to …

: It’s an edge case until it isn’t: sharing an iCloud link edition. I’m uploading a 4m video to iCloud …

: The Bear s2e6 is god-tier TV The Bear s2e6 is a pivotal episode of television. I think it was canonized in the McLuhan days that …

: The Bear is a mirror for America we don't want to look at 2 eps into The Bear S2… just a goddamn masterpiece of a piece of media we can’t talk about as …

: Perpetual Static Machine Make it Great Again, but This Time It’ll Be Different. It will be better than it used to be, …

: I’d love to see a Tim and Eric style public service announcement with very calm, clinical …

: Safari Tab Groups: A Filing Cabinet for Hypermedia i figured out safari tab groups. their purpose, how they’re supposed to be used. scenario: you open …

: Notification management Hypothesis: all difficulties in professional relationships stem from a communication imbalance. Not …

: Sorry my phone wasn’t normal computer enough.

: my bird feeder has been begging me to charge it for weeks. the problem is, we don’t need a lot of smart connected things. we each want one or two smart …

: I had to wish somebody a “Happy St. Paddy’s Day” today and I have no idea what that means. I’m 38 …

: How to make a web app in 2023 If I were to start a new web app in 2023, I’d use whatever full-stack server-side framework I …

: It's okay to disengage Lately, when a website gives me guff, I just do not engage with the site. I’m glad I’m …

: robots & sunflowers I asked the robot: I’m seeding a tray of black oil sunflower seeds to grow them as micro …

: trying to start a farm isn’t easy, but we took a step today by engaging with our local NRCS …

: might fuck around and get into microscopy

: On Never Being Bleeding Edge If you write code for a living, you probably follow fellow code-writers (on your favorite following …

: More Stylish Content with Typography & CSS When Blog Better Boston asked me what I was going to speak about, I said “design hacks” …

: The New iPad So Apple updated the iPad the other day? Yes. Retina display? Faster? Better camera? Yep. …

: Bless this CSS Mess with Compass I reached a small, nightmarish victory yesterday while testing some new styles on HipHost in IE: two …

: Messages.app Gets Cross-Device Notifications Just Right Word of OS X 10.8 (kitty code name: Mountain Lion) dropped today. The big summary is its a …

: Above the Fold in 2012 Boss: Do we think if we make these changes that this content will now be above the fold? Me: You …

: Sublime Text 2 and Columns View and a Wish I’ve got high hopes for TextMate 2, which we know is happening for sure now. But Sublime Text …

: Bash Convert All Your SCSS (or CSS) to SASS in One Line I’ve been using — nay, depending on — SaSS and Compass for at least a year (I’ll get …

: Jobs for Nihilists Maybe you should try LinkedIn?

: Web design deserves better tools than the crap we're stuck with now As an industry, we web design-types are torpedoing into the responsively designed future while our …

: You'll be missed, Steve Preface I am not a well-known web developer. I’ve yet to work on anything that made its way to …

: Creating digital media on an iPad (2) When the iPad was initially release, it was touted as the ultimate digital media consumption device. …

: I started writing (again) Around July 1, 2011, I left my job at a high-profile consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts to …