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Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to Times, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com

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co-programming with AI is so compelling, I've been building little home-cooked tools constantly these past few months, and it feels like I may — maybe in the summer? — sit down and look at doing a true home-cooked iPhone app … because it's now so much easier: www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-yea...

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone: touchgrass.now

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

the fact that campaign monitor calculates your monthly fee based on total email addresses, not total unique email addresses (so if someone subs to 2 newsletter == 2 people) is just … really skeezy and makes me sad

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

can't believe it's been 18 months since i posted this

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024) appreciation thread "When I die"

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

the forthcoming Random House edition of my book "Things Become Other Things" has gotten both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly starred reviews in the last week; plus some other updates in the latest Roden: craigmod.com/roden/101/

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So you don’t have to click through and endure the terrible website:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Be an adult. Own your garbage." actually works in so many different contexts

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

New season of white lotus or this another menendez bros doc???

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

apple contacts app on iphone seven months after you last opened it: HERE IS THE PERSON YOU SEARCHED FOR SEVEN MONTHS AGO!!!! google maps 6 seconds after you switch to another app to check something: hi i've reset the navigation you were following

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

"The modern condition consists of a constant self-infantilization, of any number of “non-adulting” activities." buried lede!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

california sunday mag was such a cool little mag

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

i love how nyc real estate is like: sure you can buy this apartment, and then that'll just be $3000/mo in maintenance fees

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

i keep publishing things with spelling errors so you guys know it's still me

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

garbage, oh garbage, how will i survive carrying you in my pocket? craigmod.com/ridgeline/203/

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually: gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

ohhh jappaaaaannnn

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

alec soth 2025 workshops now open for applications 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z5x...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

here's the email quote level of securing the rights to a single frame in a film (email chain began sept 29 and is continuing, even today)

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments