In middle school and one year of high school, I played the alto saxophone. I took some guitar lessons, but they didn't really stick—I didn't care for music
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I probably took this on my Nikon F3 or F2, but I don't really remember. I photographed him in Graffiti Alley while shooting Polaroid Type 52 packfilm at the Black Lives
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Curtis had a response to what I wrote earlier this week about reading later:
With reading later I think we often save things because we want to be the type of person that
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In 1976, Mason Resnick took a workshop with Garry Winogrand.
We looked at the portfolio without hearing a word of explanation. Winogrand spoke little. He seemed bored and restless, uncomfortable about being stuck
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I was poking around Thangs and found this neat Murderbot helmet. I am a huge fan of the books (currently on my 3rd read-through) and also loved the first season of the Apple
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I've liked Mike Monteiro's work for a long time, but his Mike Monteiro's Good News newsletter on Buttondown is hitting extra hard lately. From his latest:
Much
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I decided to shake things up around here with a new font: Code Saver from Dharma Type. You should now be reading this post with those sweet new serifs. I only purchased a
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A favorite on my "Chill" playlist. Nils Frahm was and remains a revelation. Best listened to in a car or with really good spatial audio or soundstage.
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Courtesy of Good Internet Magazine:
My website is ugly because I made itIf my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc.
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It seems obvious, and yet employers still need to be told:
offering employees the flexibility to choose to work from home has significant benefits for their physical and mental health.
I have been
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Terminal in browser reminds me of grad school and running everything on my Chromebook Pixel 2. Things have... Evolved.
In a word: care. If you haven't already seen Dan Sinker'
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Prompt engineering was never real—it was a hope for more accessible jobs on the part of workers, and less specialized labor on the part of bosses. In the end, the skill differentiator hasn't changed.
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Seriously, Elon sucks. So. Much. Twitter is just a sludge pit of suck by now. Using it feeds him.
I'm a Mastodon fan, but use Bluesky if you want. Just get
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I've been a long-time user of Pandas, since I'm a data engineer, but only recently learned about Polars: "DataFrames for the new era". [1]
Polars uses Rust
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I've really been enjoying Manu's People & Blogs[1] series, so naturally I added him to my RSS feeds[2]. This recent post[3] about online counterculture really resonated
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I asked Sam about the rain barrel he mentioned yesterday, before my basement flooded from all the rainwater pooling around the foundation, and he was kind enough to write up a blog post
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Cory Booker spent more than a full day standing in the Senate, holding up business so that he could highlight the evils of the Trump administration, particularly their cuts to Medicaid. Sure, he
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Brian Krebs has continued to impress me in the wake of Trump v2. He's active on Mastodon and LinkedIn, where he reports timely infosec news and provides an important perspective on
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I'm working on a series of posts, behind the scenes here, about icons in photography. There are a few photographers who have so completely changed my approach to making photographs that
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Zack Freedman, hacker and prototyper extraordinaire, came up with the Gridfinity system a few years ago. Here's the launch video. It's pretty simple: a modular, grid-based system of base
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NPR has a good explainer on the SAVE Act.
Backers of the SAVE Act say requiring voters to show citizenship documents is necessary to protect election integrity — though they have yet to provide
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It is time for our cockroach era, to "be unkillable. Like the noble trash lobster." I've been sitting on this article by Geraldine DeRuiter for an least a month,
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Everything is political
A lot of what I write here (and on Mastodon, and on Bluesky) is about politics. So much so that you might think my day job has something to do
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Obsidian introduced the web clipper recently, adding to their suite of features. With plugins, you can do almost anything in Obsidian now! Want to publish what you write? Easy. Sync with git? Done.
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Spoiler alert: that's not a rhetorical question, and I don't have an answer.
I work in the research org at my job, which means we need to understand, if
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Over Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning, I upgraded my Prusa Mk4 to the Mk4S. When I went to initiate the self-test, it failed. I hadn't run the test in a while
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From the official Substack Substack:
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced favorable changes in policy for Meta that should result in freer expression on its platforms. His stated reasons were a change in public sentiment
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