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Classic Fabric / Classic Style This wool tweed rendition of the Hold Fast Balmacaan is, in my opinion, timeless. Tailored in collaboration with David Wood Clothiers of Portland, Maine; it will never go out of …

THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, a two-year-old space in Greenwich Village in New York. In today’s …

Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at The New York Times writes about “the power of a single word about media malfeasance.” The word is sanewashing. The immediate context: reporting about Trump’s bizarre non-answer to a …

Revelations come in odd places. I had gotten off the St. Clair replacement bus the other month and was walking across Maple Claire park from the Gunns Road streetcar loop. It’s the shortest and least …

You know those last five seconds of a green light? The ones where the guy in front of you suddenly has to stop for a bit but just enough so that you can't escape? Yeah, …

In a recent internal meeting, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman made a bold prediction: within two years, most developers might stop coding altogether, thanks to the rapid advancement of AI. This claim, while attention-grabbing, …

San Francisco, August 2024. From the video How to pick your best photos.

School started this week, and I haven’t been this nervous or excited in decades. I don’t remember my absolute first day of school ever—it was sometime when we lived in New York and the memory …

The second of a series of posts in which I document my progress learning to play the ukulele. This post is long overdue. I started writing it several times but I have never been focused …

Performance issues in the PostgreSQL layer usually start to manifest only when your app reaches a certain scale. In this blog post, I’ll discuss easy-to-miss database config tweaks and common problems that I’ve encountered in …

Oh, well! Another post about notes and how to take them to be more productive! That’s right, another one, but in this case, I want to provide a bit of flavor on the notes I …

Friends - get out your tinfoil hats (maybe use the lead-lined ones today), we're going on a fantastical journey! I was sent a link to the second video included here by someone I admire, who …

Colorful Storefront, Montmartre – Paris, France It’s a given that the suburbs in the U.S. are bland, taking a safe and generic approach to design. But that’s mostly true of the downtowns, too. You don’t …

The American heritage footwear company Red Wing reintroduces one of it’s most requested models – the slightly dressier Beckman boot. It’s made with a Gro-cord half rubber sole, and news is that they’ve switched from …

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Weeknotes, a stream-of-consciousness post about life, work, media and everything in between. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Life I (finally) started my ADHD medication last month, which …