Back when I went to the Alaska Folk Festival, a real highlight was catching The Strongbacks do their version of sea shanties live on the main stage. I remember a real tear-jerker protest shanty that I’d love to hear again. As fate would have it, I also went to Zig Zag campout this year and […]

Chef’s kiss stuff here from Colin Cornaby: Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. […] We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a few short years kitchens will be […]

Me: is there like an established good way of sending your friends a song? I feel like I need a spreadsheet of which music service they use. Turns out there are a couple of services for this. But honestly it’s *just* enough of a pain in the ass to do this, particularly on-the-go, that the […]

Listen, I had some flies in the house. I had a party, it was nice having the doors open, some flies got in, and they apparently set up shop. You can’t just wait them out. They live like a month. Too long. Not to mention I gotta imagine they were having fly sex in their […]

Trump says: With this order, I am announcing “America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting by breathing new life into the design of sites where people interface with their Government. It is time to update the Government’s design language to be both usable and beautiful. This effort will be facilitated […]

My buddy Jason Chinchen made this highlight reel of the Centralia Old-Time Campout above. As Jason writes: The 2025 PNW gathering of old-time musicians in Centralia Washington. Appalachian fiddle music and other genres of old-time and folk music being passed down by ear as originally done. The Centralia Campout occurs every year on the sheep […]

I used to be able to indentify typefaces in use around in the real world as a kid. My mom would get a kick out of me noticing the same typefaces used by different brands on billboards and stuff as we drove around, as I recall. Nothing like this kid though, jeepers.

You’ve likely heard me go on about how much I like an encourage using an RSS reader. Molly White frames it nicely: What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper? It could include independent journalists, bloggers, mainstream media, worker-owned media collectives, and just about anyone […]

Dave Rupert: Talk to any guitarist you know who has been playing awhile and they’ll have a story about a $200 Yamaha and how good it sounds relative to the price. Boy do I. I own a $5,000 guitar (what I originally paid for straight-grain Brazilian Rosewood Martin replica by Dennis Overton) and I didn’t […]

Wes on Syntax: I write content. That content is consumed by people. But a lot of it has been used to train AIs for people to get a very quick answer. You can see the amount of bots visiting websites has been going up significantly. You ask a question about JavaScript and they go suck […]

John Allsopp has a new platform Conffab that is for livestreaming conferences as well as providing on-demand access to past recorded conference presentations. Some of which are behind a paywall. He’s got good reason to productize this. It boils down to incentives. If it all works, it’s a better place for all: presenters, organizers, and […]

I saw that screencasting.com launched recently. It’s training courses all about building high-quality screencasts. Seemed like a great idea to me with the perfect domain name. There is so much video lately in today’s media and plenty of it involves editing together camera footage, stock clips, screen recordings, etc. The learning curve on doing all […]

Benchmarked against real-world case records published each week in the New England Journal of Medicine, we show that the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) correctly diagnoses up to 85% of NEJM case proceedings, a rate more than four times higher than a group of experienced physicians. MAI-DxO also gets to the correct diagnosis more cost-effectively than physicians. […]

Offerwall lets sites provide potentially a few ways to monetize content, and for users to choose the one that they prefer. For example, a publisher can set up to allow reading their site in exchange for watching an ad (similar to YouTube’s model). That’s pretty interesting, but far more interesting to me, is that it integrates with […]

Jenn Schiffer, in what was surely a bummer post to write because of all the time and heart she put into Glitch, lists out what’s she’s doing to move her glitch.com projects elsewhere post-shutdown. i’ve been using codepen since the beginning. i just found this “in progress” live horse birth in css that was last saved 11 […]

Somebody emailed me out of the blue offering to sell me coyier.com. Usually I’m not interested in domains. I have this one, it’s fine. Subdomains are cool. You can put dashes in domains and get them cheap (see: css-tricks.com). There are a billion TLDs now and you don’t really need the dot-com. But I thought […]

For over a year every time I restarted my computer, the internet didn’t work. The trouble was, and I forgot how I even figured it out at first, was that the DNS Server was set 127.0.0.1 on my WiFi settings (regardless of what network). I’d come in here, delete it, and they would default back […]

I’ve tried over the course of a couple of weeks. I’ve tried in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. I’ve ensured there are no browser extensions at all running. I’ve tried changing little details on the forms in case one of them was tripping it up. I’ve tried on two different networks, neither of which has anything […]

📺 WondLa — I was enamored by this story of a girl in a strange post-apoc world. Season 1 was a lot stronger than season 2, so despite the cliffhanger ending, I’m not holding my breath for a third. 🎥 Sinners — This was like three movies in one. A movie about family and community […]

Just a high five to McSweeney’s for the month-by-month documentation of the horrible crap Trump does. Just a paragraph reminder with good links to confirm. I try to keep my own little mental list of things that horrify me. Not to slather myself in, as I don’t have the mental health spoons to live like […]

I got an itch to attempt streaming. So… The point is, mostly, for me to play with CodePen’s 2.0 editor and just make stuff, learning about front-end development, web design, and CodePen features all together. I’ve used StreamYard to do it before, and I love how simple it is, but it feels a bit limiting, […]

My 7 year old strongly prefers to sleep with white noise playing. She’s got a little machine that does it on a timer. Whenever she sleeps somewhere else, if she can’t bring the machine, it’s best to have another solution. YouTube has those 10 hour long videos that do it which I can just play […]

The Am Dash is a clever idea. It’s a little typographic dash you can slip into text that sorta “proves” it’s human written, while looking kinda cool. This “proves” it’s human written because there is barely any text in the world that uses this so LLMs will (never?) generate text that has “am-” in it […]

Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. […]

I’m trying to do right by my old buddy Christopher Schmitt and his digital footprint. You might remember we made a thank-you site for him where people shared memories. That’s hosted on a provided Netlify account, and the code is on a public GitHub repo. Notably the site doesn’t use a custom domain name, which […]

Looks like they are getting the gang back together for a 20-year reunion. I’m going to try to attend, but no promises just yet. Mr. Richard Worth is throwing it in Dallas, TX. Who’s he gonna get?? The yayQuery gang? Yehuda? Jörn? González? Resig? No names just yet.

P. Martin Ortiz: Web apps can easily adapt to whatever device you’re on. A single responsive website can run on your desktop, phone, tablet, or even a VR headset. What’s even more, they can be updated on all of them simultaneously. That’s a level of flexibility that native apps can’t match. That’s why I feel […]

Chili’s is obviously the finest of all the full-service chain restaurants. They are crushing it right now. Imagine my pain living in Oregon where there are 0 (zero) (none) Chili’s. It’s very satisfying to hear their CEO say that they are going to start building new Chili’s again and literally that there are no Chili’s […]

It’s interesting to hear directly from Mozilla’s CEO Laura Chambers on the U.S. search engine monopoly case Google lost: Some of the remedies proposed in the case risk the future of our Firefox browser and Gecko browser engine—the last remaining non-Big Tech browser engine. Read: “If one of the remedies is Google is no longer […]

Fun rant from By Albert Burneko on how we just ain’t colonizing Mars, ever. The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with […]