Short posts on random thoughts and things I notice in the world. This is my own Twitter (RIP). For medium to long form posts, visit the blog.
Just as a quick meta note: I added a new setting: switch to a simple (single-column) layout, for those of you who prefer to go straight down with not too many distractions. Can't do much about the distractions, but with the straight down I (now) got you, boo.
Those are the settings, in case you haven't noticed them before. They're right up in the header :)
I'm seriously considering switching my current comment system (EchoThread) for an email form. Taking it slower. Actually, writing it here just made it feel like a better idea. I want something that integrates more naturally with the rest of the website, and I value deep connections way more than immediacy. Let's get to work.
Every time I dare to use an em dash—like this one right here, a thing I've loved since I learned of its existence, I'm very self-conscious that somebody somewhere is going to declare with total self-confidence that the text was generated by AI. Because using punctuation isn't human anymore, apparently.
I need to find new podcasts. I used to eagerly wait for Hard Fork every Friday, but lately they sound more like AI shills than journalists. That, and the sensationalism in every note they cover about LLMs going rogue. I might still be mourning Reply All, four years later.
The current blog and indie scene on the web is like a dissident community in a decaying world. Rough on the edges, with organic paths, unexpected surprises, beautiful, and very much punk. It's Zion from Matrix, and The Resistance from Terminator. I love it so much here.
I've always had a thing for monospaced fonts, and today I switched everything in this site to IBM Plex Mono. I'll give it a week and see if it doesn't gets old. If it does, I might consider adding a user preference to change it to a sans-serif, or even a serif (woke up sassy today).
Everybody's talking about how Steve Jobs was a product guy and Tim Cook wasn't (we've heard every analisis youtuber say the words "supply chain" every single time they talk about Cook), and how now Apple will be back with John Ternus as a product guy. But Ternus is a hardware guy. Steve Jobs was definitely not a hardware guy. Or a software guy. Steve Jobs was the Rick Rubin of tech products. A vibe-tech-product-developer.
It's been a long time since I was as excited as I am for a single piece of software: Antinote by Johnson Fung. I even stopped using my home baked ephemeral note system for this awesome thing.
Give me ADHD and a timer and I will conquer the world.
It is in a state of pain that we find most answers to our own unknowns. If we keep avoiding pain, steering away from painful situations out of fear of discomfort, we remain static, just watching life pass us by.