I just dropped this 40 minute video essay on YT. I don’t have any presence there so it would mean a lot if you would watch, subscribe, share, etc. Not counting any gameplay, I probably put 40-50 hours into just the editing

A proposal to allow 10 stories has Paul Toner crying ‘Manhattanization’! Bro have you ever been to Manhattan? www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/09/i...

The way I can tell if an app is native or a wrapped webapp is by how fast it drains my phone battery. I know startups need speed and the convenience of a "build once, deploy anywhere" solution, but also, like, some of us are cheap and have phones whose batteries've had a "Service" status for years.

Very important news everyone

Two Page Tuesday at Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square tomorrow! Come join us for the reading at 7(ish) and stay for karaoke until our favorite bartender decides we've had enough and/or the Harvard Swimming Boys take over what remains of the night's queue.

bad time to need lots of healthcare

Thanks to Rock Salt Journal for publishing this story I wrote about a wheelbarrow. No white chickens, but guinea hens. www.rocksaltjournal.com/fall-2025#pa...

what a joy, talking to @teoshannon.bsky.social for hours

I love that I couldn’t get into a Boston Book Festival event because it was already at capacity. I cannot describe how much that pleases me.

...they changed example.com. Minimally. But... what?!

Yes, Two Page Tuesday doesn't even have an IG but the crowds are good and the work is good, as are the vibes and community. Folks really seem to like to gather together in person for art. (Also the next one is Oct 14 at The Banshee in DOT if you are local want to come check it out.)

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @bobsykora.bsky.social @delfanbaum.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657593

The caps lock key leads only to unnecessary yelling and overambitious SQL and should therefore be removed permanently.

A few years ago there was this thing publishers were doing where they were top-binding certain novels/prose books like a reporter's notebook. Does anybody remember what that was called? Or have any articles about this handy?

A cool thing about cleaning your house is that when you're done the cat will vomit in the living room to make sure you didn't miss that spot.

I got tired of pasting the same stupid bio into Submittable so I made a little to-clipboard utility to make that a little faster. Also I needed a new Python project to pin to my GitHub for *reasons*. Please enjoy. github.com/delfanbaum/t... pypi.org/project/tmpl...

Sometimes things are not, in fact, what they say on the tin.

You should listen to @escapecollective.bsky.social's Wheel Talk podcast because it's awesome and the TDFF is great this year (as it is every year), but especially for the audio diaries – such a pleasure!

"...one of the cool things about living in New England is the pretty immediate and physical access to history and these historical places, so the narrative really started to make sense to me once I decided to visit some of the sites I was learning about." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/10/u...

I had a chance to talk to @bobsykora.bsky.social about his WONDERFUL book, Utopians in Love, and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social was kind enough to publish that conversation. Check it out below!! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/10/u...

Vauquelin is going to get a good contract next year.

"I'm a sprinter now!"

Thanks @delfanbaum.bsky.social for creating such a great, low-key literary community!

EB is the best.

I like a Caleb Ewan redemption arc.

In my "adding emojis to all meeting agendas because I'm bored to tears and it brings me joy" phase.

Thrilling.

The women's Classic Brugge-De Panne *thrilling*

My cat, she snores so loudly.

Just got the notification that @bobsykora.bsky.social ‘s book has shipped and is on the way to my house. VERY exciting!

Turns out it's not that hard to replace a watch battery.

New release of `asciidocr`, includes various fixes and a better path forward for docx generation (behind the docx feature): crates.io/crates/ascii... #asciidoc #rust #clitools #lightweightmarkup

Unix piping is a very satisfying thing.

I want a song that's like "Reinventing Axl Rose" but instead of a show it's about the Internet.

Ah yes: the bi-yearly "node.js streams make my brain hurt" week. Wonderful.

Music: youtu.be/1wcNkHeLDiU?...

If you add enough maple syrup to "adult" cereal it can, in fact, still taste like what cereal *should* taste like (which is to say: marshmallows).

Additionally, what great essays in THE AGE OF SUSPICION. Now I kind of want to reread FOR A NEW NOVEL for comparison.

Finally getting around to the Sabrina Carpenter Tiny Desk, and like, she's a country singer, right? I mean, I dig it.

NEW EPISODE THE LINE BREAK IS THE PODCAST FOR POET LAUREATES WE GOT @melissaferrerand.bsky.social CHECK IT OUT podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

And here grad students are worried about downloading a handful of (often) out-of-print books, sheesh! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Tonight! I have confirmed there will be French Fries!

Tomorrow! Poetry! Prose! Community! French Fries (probably)!

And, also, you know, it's, still, amazingly, pretty (really really really) bad for the environment, too! Amazing!

While holding one cat, the other jumped onto my back. They both got their claws stuck in my sweatshirt and were crying about it. I'm not entirely sure what resolution they were expecting from the situation. Anyway, they're now chasing each other up and down the stairs.

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

For God’s sake thrust him down stairs. I cannot endure such a fustian rascal.

My favorite thing about doing remote work on the east coast is when my west coast colleagues sign on with "Good Morning!" and I'm, like, eating lunch.

Either way, I always advise writers that anything higher than $25/$1000 advance/prize is probably a bit grifty. Also be aware of presses who are always. operating. contests. That's a good indicator that they are supporting themselves on sub fees.

It's yet another month which means there's yet another Two Page Tuesday! If you're around Boston next week come join us in Dorchester -- we've got a banger of a lineup (as usual, to be fair).