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Earlier this week my city councillor, Waye Mason, put out the latest edition of his newsletter. In it, he included a link to a video tour of the Power House. I’ve have walked by this …

I can’t tell when exactly this started – initially I thought this is just a temporary fluke, maybe even just my network acting up – but it’s been more than two months now since the …

Some notes on freedom of speech TL; DR – To unlock the promise of freedom of speech, we need to pair it with the duty to be constructive. Without thoughtfulness, we have a less free, …

Imagine, if you will, a vast river. It flows fast, so fast that when you look away and look back it’s in many ways an entirely different river, not just a slightly different one. It …

I recently discovered that there's an old software edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the second edition) on archive.org for download. Not sure how legal this is, mind, but I thought it would be useful …

Keyboard people invest time upfront memorizing keybindings, in order to save time in the long run. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, it’s more like this: What if we crowdsourced the optimal set of …

My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now. It just took time - it took years to build out broadband, consumers had to buy …

Background 🔗 The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW) is an international conference focused on exploring the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different scientific disciplines, including computing science, …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

Last year I was asked to contribute to the Serpentine Galleries’ Infinite Ecologies Marathon, a prelude to their Inifinite Ecologies programme, with something that expressed what I thought was missing from most discussion and practice …

We launched Slack to the world on February 12th, 2014. Thirteen months after starting work, nine months after releasing our early alpha version, and six months after starting our preview release. We crossed the finish …

The problemFedora Kinoite (immutable, based on OSTree) didn't boot after an upgrade. I had to pick the previous OS from Grub to boot again.Instead of booting it would show the Grub menu, and after selecting …

Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd …

I recently upgraded from a Ryzen 3700X to a 5950X. Double the cores, and nearly double the potential heat output. I didn’t upgrade my cooling solution, a 240mm Kraken X53 AIO liquid cooler.

Reflections on my time as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Elon University, North Carolina. 1. Elon University · 2. Flora and fauna · 3. Teaching technology ethics · 4. The sport · 5. Being a …

Over the last few months I watched… The Terminal List — Andy Dwyer from Parks and Recreation is a Navy SEAL who makes absolutely zero jokes and accidentally lived through a mission that was set …

A deeper understanding of the relationship between seeing and thinking is necessary to designing for sustained attention. The connection between the eye and the mind is mysterious. It’s not that it is completely opaque to …

A surprisingly great way to pull your brain away from your keyboardContinue reading on Medium »

I hope you’re ready for more smart home content. I’ve been wanting to get a “smart” thermostat for some time now. I put a lot of time into research, since all of the contenders suck …