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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Ayelet Tsabari’s novel Songs for the Brokenhearted is a profound and masterfully told debut. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “In this heartfelt …

WelcomeYesterday we played a show in the Great Hall of the Dominion Museum in Whanganui a Tara. I returned for the second day to Akin for breakfast, the café with a name that I still couldn’t think of a pun for but an establishment that I now trusted to provide me with the nutrition to get me through a day of travelling and performing. Moving into the savoury section of …

Have I talked about this super cool bit of research and writing yet? As I look through the Pilgrim in Narnia archive, I see a couple of hints of the “Archangel Fragment,” but not much more. In a cultural moment … Continue reading → The post The Other Side of Screwtape: C.S. Lewis’s “Archangel Fragment” first appeared on A Pilgrim in Narnia.

Vladimir Nabokov: “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something …

The amazing thing for me is that only last week I heard Nilay Patel say on the VergeCast that virtual nametags would be the killer app for smart glasses. Well, two Harvard students took that notion and ran away with it, using Ray-Ban Meta glasses to dox people in real-time using AI and public databases. And, get this–most of the tech and databases already exist. They’re just paired with consumer …

Let’s talk about the basic concept of the "making app". I’ve written about this before, and demoed it in some of my public project walk-throughs, but there’s no single straightforward explanation out there, so let’s take a swing. What is a "making app", and why might one want to roll one for a project? In […]

Melbourne's got a great public transport infrastructure legacy. Unlike most US cities it kept substantial metropolitan and regional rail systems. And unlike most other western cities it kept a large, substantially intact, tram network. These factors give us a big advantage over other cities that need to make do with buses and/or rebuild their rail and tram systems (at great expense). With easy day trips possible to destinations like Geelong, …

If you asked me how to scale clean energy, I would prescribe a magical source of urgent energy demand.Someone willing to pay a premium to build solar+batteries, geothermal, and nuclear, in order to bring them down the cost curve and make them cheaper for everyone.That is exactly what AI data centres are.For the first time ever, securing clean 24/7 power is an urgent strategic priority for the most powerful organisations …

I’m hosting a yo-yo meetup in San Francisco this Saturday, October 5th. It will be in Yerba Buena Garden from 3-5pm (near the Metreon). This is an outdoor location, with plenty of food nearby and very easy to access via BART/MUNI/Caltrain. I made the art for this flier during a communal art jam at the Drawing Room in SF. The post Yo-Yo Meetup This Saturday in San Francisco appeared first …

Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the terminal, and I got a ton of interesting responses! Let’s talk about some of the problems …

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Super late week notes, I know. It's almost another week. I wasn't going to write anything this week but I figured, well, who cares.The process of creating a concept art portfolio is way harder than I thought. Not that putting a portfolio together is difficult, but trying to do so and realizing you still lacks a lot of important fundamental skills. Now I'm here, running against time. But it's been …

After seven years, I have uncovered the philosophy behind why I write this blog.

New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was marked by serious challenges to everyday life—graffiti-covered subways, rampant vandalism, piles of uncollected garbage, and high crime rates. Noise, drugs, and other social issues added to the city’s struggles, making the streets chaotic and unpredictable. Sidewalks were often littered with dog waste, waiting to catch both […]