A Frozen Sunday Morning
Random excerpts from my paper notebook...
What Is Hope?
Hope is a feat of the imagination, both courageous and ingenious, a vitality that inspires us to take innovative action to defend the world. Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing.
2024 in Review
Last year, I left my day job and started new projects. This year, I started new projects, then left all the projects behind and started a new day job.
The Ghost of Somebody's KPIs Are Rattling Their Chains in My Forest
I'm a sucker for a nerd with a grandiloquent poetic prose pen, but what's the point?
Helen Thorington
The late 90s and early 00s were a golden age for internet art.
This Is Every Creator's Desperate Fear
📽️ The Vergecast: Searching for the first great AI app (link to timestamp)...
The Default State of a Project Is to Not Ship
The most common error I see is to assume that shipping is easy. The default state of a project is to not ship...
Mark Danielewski and Poe in Dallas 2001
In Person: Mark Danielewski and POE in Dallas - Books - The Austin Chronicle...
Everything and Nothing
I am anxious about two things: everything and nothing.
Steel Will Always Be Real
'Why Steel will always be Real', the best explainer on bicycle frame building materials I've seen so far.
The Trouble with Tools
I spend a lot of time in productivity tools and thinking about productivity tools. I follow the development of new ones, I’m subscribed to the subreddits...
ProductCamp 2024
I was humbled and delighted, and grateful to be made to think about these topics and speak in front of an audience. It had been a while.
Why Doesn't Microsoft Do Their Own Linux Distro?
They are already investing pretty heavily in OSS and their Linux 'subsystem'
Broken
...he heard the noise in the distance, something like a growl and a scream and a whimper all at once
Software Tetris
Hope in Source: Software Tetris (Stephen Kell)...
A Quiet Home
Websites aren't just rebellions, they are tiny anarchies.
On Grief
Kester Brewin: ‘Good’ Grief...
Hang a Loaf of Bread from Your Bike for Safety
I reached for this loaf of bread and didn’t have a great way to carry it on on my bike when when I was riding. So I tied it to the back of my bag and had it just sort of hanging there loosely. And from for the rest of the day, the cars were pretty kind to me.
Milo at State Champs
Milo raced at the TX state road race championships again this year, the only race of the year with an event for his age group that is a reasonable distance from Dallas...
Is Road Cycling Dying in America
I noticed this Reddit post: Is road cycling dying in America? and ended up leaving a comment a couple of days later that was a good postmortem on the bicycling-related venture I explored last year...