Now
I’m in Melbourne, Australia. You’ll find me tinkering on the Pi Frame project, figuring out how to wax my bike chain, and reading The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
Here
There
Sidelines
Select items, served on the side.
Ephemera
ephemera.fyiYou know those scraps of paper and receipts that clog up your wallet and pockets? This is a living, digital archive of that.
Ongoing
Pi Frame
github.comPrint your own changing picture frame using an e-ink display and Raspberry Pi.
2022–2023
68
68.netlify.appKevin Kelly's 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice, one at a time.
2021
Brown Pages
brownpages.orgYour local guide to composting, wherever you are.
Ongoing
Notes
To self, to you, to whomever. What’s been on my mind. RSS
Biking the Empire State Trail: New York City to Montréal
Convert HEIC to JPEG via iOS Shortcuts
AI as the Copilot
Automatic Smart Quotes in Eleventy Markdown Templates
Two Years of Freelance
Automatic New Tab Links for Markdown in Eleventy
Saving Kobo Highlights to Markdown or Notion
Reduce Video File Size With FFmpeg
Pi on the Brain
Not Just Bikes
Bigger Than Us
Trove
What I’ve found interesting lately from around the web.
itsnicethat.com
People I (Mostly) Admire: 114. Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Life?
podcasts.apple.comThe Imperfectionist: Who's in charge around here?
“...if you’re waiting for some outside authority to give their stamp of approval to what you’re doing with your life—if you’re telling yourself things will only be truly OK once they’ve done so—then you’ll be waiting a long time. And even if they were to give it, it wouldn’t be worth getting.”
ckarchive.comNew ways to build and farm
23 min in: urban farming as productive climate action. “Food growing architecture” as a design discipline.
100climateconversations.comHow to Make Greens Last Longer | Cook's Illustrated
americastestkitchen.comalex.gd
We need the right kind of climate optimism
vox.comHow to Be Happier Without Really Trying - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
via Brad Frost.
bakadesuyo.comThe Imperfectionist: Lists are menus
Now I know why I gravitate towards hand-written notes: they’re menus to choose from rather than a list to get through.
ckarchive.comShould I add these features to Arc browser? (internal prototypes) - YouTube
100% agree with the ethos of this video.
youtube.compleasedonotbend.co.uk
nytimes.com
underconsideration.com
underconsideration.com
Palestinian embroidery, called tatreez, is a centuries-old tradition. Digital preservation efforts, like a database called Tirazain, could help preserve it for the future.
tirazain.comFluid Responsive Design | Utopia
A much more sensible (and easier) way to set layout for the web.
utopia.fyiSearch Engine: Does anyone actually like their job?
Yes, if it’s not work. Meat and potatoes at 28:40.
podcasts.apple.comFighting Fascism in America
The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power "under the guise of 'super-patriotism' and 'super-Americanism.'" And they would use three techniques: First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a "well-planned 'hate campaign' against minority races, religions, and other groups."
kottke.orgHow to Do Great Work
paulgraham.comMind Reading 2.0: How others see you | Hidden Brain Media
hiddenbrain.orgOpinion | Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings
nytimes.comLovely brand identity work by Order.
underconsideration.comportorocha.com
archives.design
archives.designThe 2023 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100
audubon.orgOpinion | Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
washingtonpost.comWatch Amateurs Race Against the Tour de France’s Top Climbers (Sort Of)
Even the simplest data vis can help tell a story.
nytimes.comThe Art of Wandering While Traveling - The New York Times
Your “first care must be to ignore the very dream of haste, walking everywhere very slowly and very much at random,”
nytimes.comGRID WORLD by Alexander Miller
alex.miller.gardenWelcome to Exurbia - Overland literary journal
In the sixties, American urbanists like Jane Jacobs and Richard Sennett saw the suburban flight as a form of secession from the city and public realm. They argued that to commute is to avoid the social and cultural complexity of the city, to seek insulation from strangers, and from the random encounters that nourish our citizenship. This may do a disservice to many who live in low-density areas, underestimating their creative, worldly and cosmopolitan values. But there is little doubt that the growth of gated outer-suburban enclaves works against the egalitarian ambition of early metropolitan planners and reformers, who sought to encourage social mixing in public space.
overland.org.au