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I’m a bit behind on news this week, but when catching up I saw this article from Polygon about the Katamari Damacy soundtrack hitting streaming. This lead me down a weird rabbit hole. First off, …

For some reason, most of my (ca. 12.000) songs were deleted from my iPhone – not the related meta data, though: Everything was still showing up, but the songs without album art in those screenshots …

On AI and community owned data TL; DR – Imagine a world where communities nurture, own, govern and sell access to their data. Community owned data could give us a better, more vibrant AI ecosystem …

Kerfuffles are Kerfuffles. Causing one recently, with its particularly low-stakes aspects (what’s done is done, no actions appear to be planned, I’m already doing things differently, etc.) allowed me to at least re-visit a policy …

I’ve recently switched back from vscode to Sublime Text, which means that after all the time I spent training my fingers to type “code somefile.txt” instead of “subl somefile.txt” I now need to undo all …

[ Inspired by the strangely-hilarious meme-essay The Grug Brained Developer ] grug brained writer write million million words and sell about two. grug scratch head to figure why two words become shiny rocks and not …

This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982. It’s full of great jokes and I could have used almost any of them, because they’re all making the same point …

Disclaimer, just in case… 🔗 I work for Google on the Chrome Developer Relations team. But for this post, I want to make it super duper clear that I'm speaking not on behalf of my …

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 …

Following my experiments with the ChatGPT-assisted AI Chair 1.0, I’ve been continuing experiments with a range of other LLMs. The below image is Chair 1.1, designed with the assistance of Mistral AI. Before embarking on …

From John O'Nolan (CEO of Ghost):How did Stewart's infamous "we don't sell saddles here" essay go down internally, at the time? And how do you feel that essay aged, with hindsight?Stewart shared We Don't Sell …

Introduction to everythingPlease note that I really do like Enigma, and I have mad respect for everybody who designed its levels, since the levels are an essential part of the game. As you read, please …

The other day, I was thinking about less-obvious skills that I find helpful for working as a software engineer. Some skills are obvious, like understanding technical topics, learning new things, and thinking like a computer, …

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.

Estoy encantado de anunciar que hoy sale a la venta La Ética del Futuro, la traducción al español de mi libro Future Ethics.Desde que publiqué el libro hace unos años, muchas personas me han dicho …

In Bend, you can’t miss the illustration work of Megan Marie Myers. It’s absolutely everywhere. There are murals. There are calendars for sale everywhere. Prints are hung up at coffeeshops, sometimes as whole exhibitions. She’s …

The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war. The faces are back. Feels like something is happening here. This ^ is the start of a new book. “We need more calm companies.” …

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

Using a Fire Stick I bought a TV a few months ago. I hadn’t had one for a while, but I was ready to make a home theater at the time of purchase. I already …