the original is from 2010 nvie.com/posts/a-succ...

This nonsense slop diagram in Microsoft's GitHub training guide is embarrassing. Maybe review things before unquestioningly publishing generated garbage? I guess that's too much to ask of one of the largest and richest companies in the world.

the pre-LLM projects on my GitHub profile are like low-background steel

Finally! Decentralized Keybase!! …Well, minus the PGP so far

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

Consult my doctor… about drinking juice??

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

Sad to see that Adobe is discontinuing Animate (Flash) today but hey, at least they're opening up the file format, open sourcing the editor, and have a clear transition path to their other maintained applications... right?

Kinda wild that you *need* an Apple account to use any software that doesn't come with the iPhone.

Imagine your car pulling over mid-drive to ask, “How’s your experience so far?” Ridiculous…until you realize that’s exactly how many apps behave now. How we normalized being interrupted by the products we bought to do work. Backseat Software: blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

formats over apps

Is anyone else getting hit with a brutal amount of spam email coming from Zendesk recently? Feels like somebody has figured out a new way to use their software to send people garbage support tickets.

iOS App Patch Notes: Cleaned the sink, added some sparkle and polish so that your experience is the super duper best! Improved performance and squashed the small buggy buggos to keep you zooming smoothly! Swapped the engine and replaced the timing belt! We’ll NEVER tell you what really changed.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

2026 is the year of the Linux desktop! ...Is what I would say if I could post this from my Linux install because the wifi drivers don't work out of the box and now I need to figure out how to install them.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

New blog post! This time, a reflection on the Wikireader: a dedicated gadget from 2010 that lets you read a text-only version of Wikipedia. 15 years later and it still works better than ever! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-12...

Everyone else is posting their word clouds, but I'm keeping the streak alive!

Musicbrainz Picard doesn't write release and track relationships so now I need to go back and re-tag my entire music library to get those sweet details about who played what instruments on which tracks. ...But because they DO write a unique ID to each file this should be a simple bulk edit!

Fran Sans — a typeface inspired by San Francisco light rail displays — is gorgeous and this excellent article really shows you how deep a typography designer will go 👏👏👏 emilysneddon.com/fran-sans… #typography #design

Playing around with gaussian splats! The end result is cool, but the structure-from-motion camera visualization was pretty neat too!

The year is 2025. I still cannot right click an image in a google doc and hit "Download" to save it to my local computer.

Every ad now

Here is a working link to the original Poppy File map, which shows about 3,300 of Toronto's Second World War war dead at the household level. Click on a home to see details. The First World War map follows in the thread /1 t.co/4P9GUkl8m0

This font absolutely rips djr.com/megazoid

We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science. Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World* Deadline Dec 10: orbitalstudies.com Please share! We pay all contributors.

Affinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11... If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!

A freebie for any PMs at Google: Now that newsletter subscriptions are big, you could bring back Google Reader as part of Gmail with a dedicated newsletter reader inbox view and also make RSS cool again while you're at it.

That’s baseball baby

My biggest baseball take is that the live organ is a lot of fun. The Jays should ditch the canned sound effects and hire somebody to play keys.

Took the A-train Car-specific wayfinding!

New blog post! Using 3D scan data created with my phone as reference imagery for underground mapping of subway stations in #OpenStreetMap Check it out! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-10...

"your needs are all self centred but the benefits trickle down" Not sure how to feel about this, but I think it's positive?

It's pretty grim how succeeding online after the TikTokification of everything is about throwing spaghetti until the computer favors you once and then getting imprisoned by that gimmick forever as you scrounge for ways to increase the ante

The day has finally come where YouTube is showing channels I didn't subscribe to in the subscriptions feed. Terrible stuff.

Ads? In MY SaaS?! It's more likely than you'd think...

Alright friends, I think we are live! 😁 I've only tested this with my own data so I have no idea if it works for anyone else but I think commitgraphghan.com is live and working 🤞👀 I'm trying the pattern out this weekend to see how awful it is to make 😂 Where are my @github.com #crochet fans at?

Never forget

Finally got a chance to give @makham.itch.io's Pixel Composer a spin after a few years of letting them cook... This software is kinda awesome now?! Look what I can make with just 7 nodes!

Super cool stuff and some very nice people at Swash & Serif this year! Check out the show if you’re into letters and in Toronto, it runs until Sep. 23rd! swashandserif.ca

I think the only two governors who ever followed me on Twitter were Newsom and Spencer Cox, and I feel bad that I’m apparently such a good “craven doofus” follow.

Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala) github.com/shazow/wifitui

@comaps.app is the only map app on my phone where I can search “water fountain” and it shows me free drinking water everywhere I live. Meanwhile Google shows me an ad for bottled water.

I contribute sidewalk and parking lot data to OSM pretty much with the express purpose that it will be used for stuff like this! Love to see it.

I rarely promote this event, it's pretty low key... but if you're in Toronto, every other Thursday in the evening I run an event at @1rg.space where we work on our side projects. If you have a side project and want to show it to some people, you should come! luma.com/75olmqob

Somebody should sell copies of Simulation and Simulacra by Jean Baudrillard with each page infused with pumpkin spice aroma.

the icon customization screen of windows is like a museum of the different UI trends over multiple decades

Finished my foliage & grass mapping of the Toronto Island disc golf course!