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absolutely nobody did it, does it, or will do it like S. Neil Fujita

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still need to write up my review of black bag but I love soderbergh's commitment that 20% of his filmography is just pure hedonistic pleasure

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really love the approach of re-branding "settings" as "plugins". makes approaching complex, general-use products feel less like hell and more like hitting level 24 and deciding between learning Evocation and Blink

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

underrated aspect of email's longevity is sometimes you stumble into your own personal time machine

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i wish there was a better primitive for commenting on an entire file. very tempted to start doing something like `http://Dockerfile.README.md`

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I'm not sold on the highlight styling yet, but give this a spin and let me know if you love/loathe it: docs.buttondown.com/change-usern...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

reviews are calling RSS^4 "neat", "useful", and "the best movie of 2025 with a standout performance by Cate Blanchett". get your tickets today! bsky.app/profile/erin...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

would love to read a long essay about Starbucks’ pivot to being a lemonade company

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=(

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in unrelated news, taking the train up with lucy and haley to Jersey City this afternoon bsky.app/profile/jenn...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

New post: Spring, 2025.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

this sounds facetious, but the single most impressive thing ChatGPT has done for me lately: I asked for an obscure SNES RPG ("don't give me the obvious ones") and it delivered

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this might be my first bonafide boomer opinion, but really feels increasingly clear to me that sports-betting in america is headed towards some sort of eschaton

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just a deeply unserious product initiative

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ah, fun milestone

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to (understandably) little fanfare, we finally got rid of one of buttondown's original API sins. only took five years! docs.buttondown.com/api-changelo...

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one of the things i'm always fascinated about with this sort of thing is "please edit this work memo", as if the technology has advanced _exactly_ far enough for the dreamer to have to not do any work besides prompting but not so far that the memo has already been edited bsky.app/profile/drew...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

fun bit of lore: back in 2021 @gruber.foo cyber-bullied me into making click/open tracking opt-in (as opposed to opt-out). he was correct to do so, and now every single tracking thing we add is opt-in, with no exceptions daringfireball.net/linked/2021/... bsky.app/profile/butt...

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notes on "aqua voice", speech to text, and non-determinism jmduke.com/posts/post/a...

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