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I’m in Melbourne, Australia. It's finally starting to warm up. My current read is Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
Here
There
Notes
To self, to you, to whomever. What’s been on my mind. RSS
Agency, Not Agents
Feeling Our Way Forward
Biking the Empire State Trail: New York City to Montréal
Bikepacking the Bendigo Graveleur
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
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
Trove
What I’ve found interesting lately from around the web.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
“Software engineers, as a species, love automation. Inevitably, the best of them build tools that make other kinds of work obsolete. This very instinct explained why we were so well taken care of: code had immense leverage. One piece of software could affect the work of millions of people. Naturally, this sometimes displaced programmers themselves.”
newyorker.comunderconsideration.com
underconsideration.com
underconsideration.com
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nlCareer Advice
moxie.orgUnbundling AI — Benedict Evans
“...\[LLMs] generate prose that is grammatically and linguistically correct, and the fact that the prose is perfect tends to hide the weakness in what the prose is expressing.”
ben-evans.comunderconsideration.com
Generative AI exists because of the transformer
A beautiful piece of visual storytelling.
ig.ft.comThe American Revolution Bicentennial Guidelines
standardsmanual.comDo Cornelissen
“Advertising creatives have particularly well honed habits when it comes to the production of interesting ideas. They do it on demand. For money. They know, more than almost anyone else, that you can’t rely on inspiration. So they collect and collect and collect. Images, photography, illustrative styles, bits of type, overheard speech, fragments of idea, other ads, anything that grabs their eye. None of it with any real purpose other than one day it’ll come in handy. (And this is one place where the industry's reputation for kleptomania comes from.)”
russelldavies.typepad.comAre rebrands starting to look the same? The challenges defining commercial design
“…it’s then easier for larger studios to encourage more tent-pole clients to utilise those same motifs. The process is arguably less a case of direct plagiarism than an example of a slow trickle-down effect – almost akin to aesthetic gentrification”
itsnicethat.com“Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive in makes it a better place to live”
xkcd.comitsnicethat.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.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
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.comOpinion | Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings
nytimes.comLovely brand identity work by Order.
underconsideration.comportorocha.com