Personal blogs

American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art is an excellent, highly DIY doc. In it, Merle Becker (who has a YouTube channel devoted do DIY video production) follows her passion around the country, …

To be clear, universe, last week I wasn’t complaining about not much happening. First, the patient is on the mend now. Yesterday a family member was taken ill and so, after a period of “is …

Earlier today I got a surprise invitation to Google Foobar,1 a series of coding tests presented as a text adventure. You’re presented with a normal terminal interface, and a few familiar commands like ls, cd, …

It isn’t too difficult, they said. You’ll be home before sunset, they said.

[Rewilding is] a fundamentally cheerful and workmanlike approach to what can seem insoluble problems. It doesn’t micromanage. It creates room for “ecological processes [which] foster complex and self-organizing ecosystems.” Rewilding puts into practice what every …

A week ago I returned from a week’s trip to central New South Wales in Australia, driving from Sydney down to (almost!) Batemans Bay, then up again to Newcastle and then back to Sydney. The …

This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta’s offices in San Francisco. I’ve been delayed in writing it up because of traveling back …

Pnårp raised more questions than he answered this week.

I treated the lurgy by binging Brooklyn 99 and gallons of Lemsip. It seemed to work. Either that or time, who can tell.I've spent the week working on our API sign-up flow. I'd forgotten how …

My train back from Weymouth was also delayed but as I was already entitled to a complete refund of my return journey, I couldn’t get refunded any more. They won’t pay you to take the …

David C. Baker is a no-fluff specialist in how to run and grow marketing agencies, and I’ve been enjoying his newsletter and books over the last couple of years. Today’s instalment – Working With A …

Been a moment since I've posted! Got a bunch of ideas at like 60% polish, so I figure I'll post a work in progress. Here's a little toy that came out of "hey can I …

I read this book by accident. It was shared on some forum, I thought it was a small pamphlet or something like that. I thought it’d be a few pages. A day later, I had …

Hi. If you're seeing this then you're on the old version of my website, which is located at https://old.starbreaker.org.You should be on https://starbreaker.org instead.This version of my website is going away on May Day 2024. …

In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead. When the …

In Andy Andrews’ The Noticer, we encounter a character named Jones, who meets people at times in their lives, when they are stuck – desperate, hopeless, about to divorce, pursuing an unhelpful direction, et cetera. …

The last time we did this it was so magnificent that I said, on the spot, “see you again in 2024,” and seven years didn’t dim my wish to see the sun wink out again. …

By short-short blogging, I mean the kinds of posts that Seth Godin and Dave Winer often publish. Brief posts — around 350 to 400 words at most. Or maybe even just a few dozen words. …

The 1976 Fender Guitar catalogue was fairytale-themed. Lot of links today, not much commentary, just to get rid of a few open browser/mental tabs. Currently: Maybe part of it is just that you can hear …