I've had this version of Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor in my head for a few days. Eugen Cicero has a lot of different music but I like his Chopin stuff the best. youtu.be/9I4qIUj9b48?...

Cleaning the office and came across my collection of rave flyers from 98-04. Found this gem. #techno

Kash Patel joining the Drinking Bro's podcast seems like a bad choice in retrospect. www.youtube.com/live/sHV7rDr...

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

All time favorite cafes: 1. Rue de la Course (Big Rue on Magazine) - New Orleans 2. Redezvous - Ann Arbor 3. Trident - Boulder 4. Cafe Felix - Ann Arbor 5. The Vintage - New Orleans (was the little Rue) Rue is in a new location, which is meh. The Trident and Vintage still exist and are amazing.

I asked ChatGPT what I look like based on our communications and this is what it provided.

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

Basically anything from Max Cooper continues to be amazing. youtu.be/dtTdjRB4Q4g?...

This is a great intro video about surveillance pricing and the influence its having on grocery prices. youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...

I had never heard of technofeaudalism until I listened to this podcast. Now I want to read Varoufakis' book. Really interesting stuff! (Also: Philosophize This! is a great podcast for people interested in philosophy at any level -- highly recommend!) www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/epis...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who will suddenly remember, again, that it takes 3 days, not 2, for a 16 pound turkey to thaw in the fridge!

Woke up to tons of outage alerts from client websites and it looks like Cloudflare is down. www.techradar.com/pro/live/a-c...

If you can't get to GoDaddy right now, make sure to type godaddy.com with https & www. If I type it without https or www, it doesn't work. This is an error for GoDaddy right now, but it's what happens *all the time* if you use their "domain forwarding" service on one of your domains. It's trash.

I've wondered this for a while: why don't blue states band together and provide healthcare for their citizens? Start off with NY, CA and IL and then have state legislatures vote into the system? This seems so much more realistic than change at a national level.

DEI and White House deals to lower drug prices are two sides of the same coin. Corporations do these things strategically to protect their profits. Politicians are afraid of legislation so they treat these corporate choices like meaningful public policy decisions.

Irvine Welsh complaining about neoliberalism (if only for a brief second) is something I could inject into my old veins every single day.

The singularity is awesome

Builder.ai collapses after revelation that its 'AI' was hundreds of engineers – The fall of a unicorn built on hype, humans, and fake AI www.techspot.com/news/108173-...

Google: layout shifts are bad for user experience. Also Google: layout shifts galore in workspace accounts as they bolt on AI to everything with no ability to turn it off.

When you're backpacking with your wife and kids and encounter a cliff and need to get everyone and their packs down safely so you do the rough section over and over and over.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

My goodness I love New Orleans. I just got back from my 6th trip to that amazing city. I miss it already. Here's a photo of breakfast at Molly's Rise and Shine on Magazine.

Sweet Sixteen! #GoBlue

Every year I build an NCAA bracket in spreadsheets. This year's is a thing of beauty. Men's and Women's brackets. Individual brackets and consolidated views. Oh yes. This is precisely how much I enjoy making a good Google Sheet.

I'm loving me some Michigan basketball in March! I just wanted a .500 team this year but Dusty obviously had other plans. #GoBlue

There are more important things, and I know this is petty and a first world problem, but I will be extremely unhappy if Trump forces me to drink California Merlot and Cab instead of Côtes du Rhône, Albariño, Nebbiolo, Soave, and Txakolina.

We’ve always been at war with Canada.

Stereolab finally released "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky NIght" (1999) on vinyl. This has always been my favorite Stereolab album and I think it's underrated. Here's a cool song from this album that switches between 5/4 and 7/8: youtu.be/e5XaMfrMKaM?... #nowspinning #vinyl

Removing or editing federal webpages as modern book burning, memory holes, propaganda, etc.

Walking past this sign last summer I turned to my wife and said, "Oh...fancy! A French park."

Some really exceptional wildlife photography in here. #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

Random discovery many years after the fact: the philosopher John Dewey once lived on South University in Ann Arbor where Village Corner was located. I had no idea. That's where I bought my first beer and also where I learned that 9/11 had happened. It closed in 2010 to make way for a high rise.

Here are some photos of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park that I took in September 2005. That was very early into my journey into photography, but I remember being very happy with these photos. #photography #landscapephotography

Here's a #homecooking tip for anyone who uses a lot of garlic. Buy a Costco of peeled garlic (3 lbs), put it in a food processor, then freeze it in ice cube trays covered with foil or plastic wrap. Can be moved to ziplock bags after frozen. I do this every few months and save tons of time overall.

It's finally here: A new (free) SEO research tool tracking Digital Goliaths in Google. I'm embarrassed how much time I spent on what is essentially a side project, but it hopefully gives a new perspective to what's happening in search. Link below. No sign-up required.

You know who else capitalized both proper and common nouns? Hitler.

"It’s time for Democrats to stop playing our usual softball—and start playing the kind of softball that uses the smaller, slightly firmer ball. We need to throw the old Democratic playbook out the window, see what page it lands on, then enact the boldest plan on that page."

Hey Gemini, what did Mussolini mean when he said, "fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

Considering making a browser extension that automatically inserts a hand wanking emoji when a sentence matches regex (?i)([^.!?]*\bSusan Collins\b[^.!?]*\bconcerned\b[^.!?]*[.!?]).

Is the so-called "deep state" really just the US Constitution? They don't seem to understand it. Trump thinks his job is to legislate and GOP legislators think their job is to talk to cameras.

At 66, Cantwell is by eight years the youngest senator who will be speaking tomorrow at 4pm on what is, frankly, a major crisis

It's always very helpful and encouraging when Google Analytics 4 is having issues attributing traffic from Google search results.

Building a massive migrant detention facility at Guantanamo would be a disastrous mistake.

A sepia photo of Taos Pueblo from underneath a ramada. I took this photo in 2009. It hangs on my family room wall next to a few other photos of New Mexico. #landscape #photography

Up for a music recommendation? If you like Motown or Curtis Mayfield, check out Pale Jay. My favorite artist of 2024. youtu.be/5_rgyQB1mHs?...

A client's website forms were having intermittent issues. The issue was hard enough to reproduce that it could easily be ignored. Then I found this: the WordPress GravityForms anti-spam honeypot cycles through different field names. E.g., "Email," "Phone," "Comments." 🧵

There isn't a day that goes by where I don't dream of New Orleans or Naples.