Today I learned you can spend $7500 on a phono cartridge I truly had no idea

Good morning open.spotify.com/album/4u12wG...

Spring is blooming in Vancouver

Wild differential between USA and Canada in this research.

just another day at the office

Watching claude rubber duck the problems you give it is endlessly fascinating

My dog

A wonderful dream of an album full of warmth and solace open.spotify.com/album/3DxHQ1...

These Holo digicams from Manual are really cool shop.manualphoto.com/en-ca/produc...

New post up on Building Slack about launching our redesign just as Covid hit North America buildingslack.com/the-week-the...

Every day I look at iOS and MacOS liquid glass and am just continually shocked that platforms that have been maturing for decades took a giant step backward in visual polish and legibility because ... some designer likes transparency? And now there are a bunch of prefs to fix it? Who's to blame?

Discovered Björk's Live in Cambridge recordings of her Homogenic era are on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=msv6... and Spotify open.spotify.com/album/6wrQxT... I had this concert on DVD in the early 00s and watched it dozens of times. Her performance is incredible and Mark Bell's beats are sublime

Made a shallow bowl with a burnt wood finish today

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Days since I was pleasantly surprised by a Claude Code solution: 0 (Today, it wrote a temp python script to generate the necessary IDs for the .pbxproj file to fix Xcode's refusal to recognize new project files – something I've been bitten by and had to fix manually in the past)

Started reading LeGuin’s short story collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters. The opener Semley’s Necklace is such a beautiful tragic parable. I loved the imagery and the light-handed account of interaction between space-faring and planet-bound species.

You can get replacement parts for missing Lego pieces for free on their website. My son lost the sticker sheet for his Artemis rocket set. Now a new one is coming in the mail. You get used to companies just doing the absolute bare minimum. It is so wonderful to experience the opposite ❤️

Keep the axe handy

New post up on Building Slack. Shortly after going public, we embarked on our first major redesign. We needed to rationalize 7 years of rapid product growth and set ourselves up for the next 7 years. buildingslack.com/rethinking-s...

Found this in my early Claude conversations, when I learned Anthropic didn't have a real image generation model.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

I think about this image a lot

What a beautiful, incredible story podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

What an electric film Sinners (2025)

Some closeups of a barn owl I met today

Saw this guy in the wild yesterday

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

Superb Fairywren Tasmania

Pink Robin Tasmania

Merry Christmas from Tasmania 🌈

Feel the AGI

I really hate everything about this

Baffled and sad to hear about Rob Reiner. The self-deprecating, absurd, empathetic humour of his films was a core element of my upbringing. My sisters and I rewatched the VHS of The Princess Bride at least a hundred times. It and Spinal Tap still hold up decades later. 😞

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

TIL you can scan documents using the camera in the Apple Notes iOS app. It works surprisingly well!

My 8yo just put on The Princess Bride in the other room and I can hear him giggling at all the right parts 🥰

Canceling unwanted subscriptions is my love language.

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

New Tame Impala record is slowly growing on me. As a die hard fan of the first three records the last couple have been less to my taste. But there are some great grooves on Deadbeat open.spotify.com/album/5WulAO...

Been really digging Barker's albums Utility and Stochastic Drift sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/stocha... Cerebral, shape-shifting electronic music that has kept me coming back consistently. If you like Oneohtrix Point Never, Selected Ambient Works, or Jan Jelinek, check this out.

Well well if it isn’t JavaScript, the cause of and solution to all of my professional problems.

Dear writer of Claude Code flavour text, I see you, and I like what you're doing.

Second part of our post on Going Public out now. Did you know Stewart ate a chipotle burrito for dinner the day we went public? 🌯 buildingslack.com/going-public...

Two easy rules for better holiday gifts for kids: No screens No batteries Just things to read, make, build, eat, play with, or experiences to enjoy with others.

Real good one today xkcd.com/3172/

Is there a name for this? - Go to cancel a subscription and get a discount to keep it. - Return an item and get offered bonus $ if you receive the refund as a gift card. I understand the psychology and the business reasoning. But what's this called? PS: Go get a 92% reduction in your NYTimes rate

One Battle After Another. Really enjoyed the filmmaking and performances. Still puzzling out the message. Stellar work from Chase Infiniti amidst the performances of the veteran actors.

Couple quick Sunday projects in the shop. Walnut, maple and wenge cutting board. Maple burl candle holder with live edge.