When you’re reading a great long article or book, and interrupt yourself with ideas and excitement, that’s not “distraction,” that’s intelligent work. When you’re muting yourself by doomscrolling, that is indeed “distraction,” and even a kind of death.

New booklet: Unread Bookshelf For everyone with good intentions, but a shelf full of unread books. "Practical, grounded, and genuinely motivating." 15 essays, PDF/EPUB, ~20 pages. (You'll finish this book.) readwith.app/unread-books...

Choosing to hustle hard, that's one way to go about working on your projects. It's popular, and it's celebrated. Side-projects, through this lens, are seen as a weakness. If you must _depend_ on your work, depend on the work you do on _you_. everyonewantsprogress.com/0118-if-you-...

Dan Becker, Chef Corso. Gourmet trail meals that look amazing. Third time on the show, and this is my favourite appearance of Chef Corso on Dan's channel. youtu.be/Op2osRGxv2Q?...

"The Rails core team is interested in having Herb replace Erubi. As GitHub is almost certainly the most prolific renderer of ERB in the world, Marco asked us to help validate Herb before it lands in Rails." Adopting Herb at GitHub hawksley.org/2026/05/06/a... by Joel @hawksley.org

Look what our buddy @codynorman.com is launching is his home town. A co-working space called "Side-Quest Coworking". Isn't this lovely? sidequestcoworking.com Let's wish him the best of luck, shall we?

A series: Things you can’t ask Claude, …but I just had the urge to ask, …but it probably shouldn’t be able to. 1/

Huge props to Julian for this run. His Hotwire Club challenges and Patreon-only solutions are such a good subscription idea.

I'm going to go against most of tech with these takes about AI: What I decry the most, it's not the automation or the inclusion of AI tools. 1- It's the war on middle-management, which most people in tech are in agreement with. 2- It's also the trend toward working solo, the death of teams

There are no guarantees. But here are things that will tend to be on the right side of being right, even when things get difficult. everyonewantsprogress.com/0117-the-dif...

Absolutely gorgeous late October day in Ottawa today. Get out there and enjoy it!

I appreciated that three designers of physical things (a safer bet than software nowadays), are bringing their takes on AI-generated software. - Art theory exists, and maybe we need Development theory - Hearing them use their own language about it @studioneat.bsky.social overcast.fm/+AAFNoEYq9vA

Gruber has the been closing lines daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

Who else is re-watching The Mandalorian S3?

"Hop". A buyer makes a hop when buying your product, makes a hop when using it ever more seriously, and if you do it right, you can add another hop before all that. Help your buyer make progress. everyonewantsprogress.com/0116-alignin...

Ok y'all. Hank Green is great internet video. Hank Green talking about Artemis photos is great internet video. Hank Green talking about a tool he vibe-coded which organizes Artemis photos in nerdy detail-y ways is GREAT INTERNET VIDEO Y'ALL!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZE...

What does "Embrace Constraints" mean when all constraints are blown up, being redefined by a market change? Let's look at 6 sticky constraints, that are always present. Because constraints help you with your design choices. everyonewantsprogress.com/0115-the-hun...

I love my Apple devices, but I love that there's some serious alternatives on the linux side. This thing looks gor-geous!

Wild to think that indigenous Americans, separated from Europeans for some 16k years, could mate with them after they colonized, but there are four different giraffe species in Africa that all look the same, but can’t mate.

Today’s Wordle is now considered a boomer word

And folks are still buying tickets! Think about it, you could have a really fun week next week! ☺️

Gruber writes some of the best closing lines. daringfireball.net/2026/04/anot...

“I’ve never done this before”. Adults don't usually start new things on purpose. We don't plunge back into beginner mode for a few years just for fun. But if you're there, some tools: Practice, play, self-talk, abstraction and "pre-tending" everyonewantsprogress.com/0114-become-...

You could build a product that solves a problem. Charge a price, make it do the job, make it good. But while you’re at it, you could consider making it: a gift... inside a gift, inside another gift everyonewantsprogress.com/0113-product...

Hey Ruby consultants, freelancers, and agencies! Quick reminder: we have the Ruby Consultants Quarterly Gathering (over Zoom) on Monday, 1pm ET! Come talk shop with other Rubyists. (It's not widely publicized, so if you don't have an invite, DM me and I'll add you.)

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breathtaking wallpaper images

"Angor" by Angine de Poitrine Has strong Mega Man vibes.

Every product is actually *four* products. One you pay with money, the others, not in money necessarily. Get all four "products" working right, and you'll get word of mouth and happy users. (Everyone Wants Progress, now you YouTube 👇) youtu.be/EeJn86LMavY

"Where were you? You’ve been gone five years"

Tell us a story. Stay empirical, use logic, make your point, but tell us a story. Because we evolved as groups, and because we sequence dense information better when it's in a story, become part of a group, and tell us a story. We are story people everyonewantsprogress.com/0112-we-are-...

The photo's metadata reveals it was taken with a Nikon D5, focal length: 22mm, aperture: f/4, and exposure time: 1/4 sec. The noise in the original image, the long-ish exposure time (you can see stars), and the absence of direct sunlight suggests the photo was taken using the light of the Moon.

If the earth eclipses the Sun in this photo, what's the light source that lights up the Earth?

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

Watching reaction videos of Angine de Poitrine, I'm struck by two things: 1. There are layers of misdirection, coordination and tricks in their performances. Magic, essentially. 2. It's not AI, and they are capturing our attention. Magic, essentially.

Tired: Symphonic orchestra playing Metallica Wired: Symphonic orchestra playing Angine de Poitrine

You can't prompt your way to community.

Stop everything, GrammaCrackers is trying out Fortnite

What do you call it when you use your phone as your nightstand clock? ... screen time

What are you all reading these days? I recently finished: 📖Hidden Potential by @adamgrant.bsky.social 👍 - Useful if you're in a career adjustment, thinking it's time to activate a sort of resilient posture. It's an encouraging book for that.

Rounding up recent things that are worth having on your radar: 💥 SVG favicons and color scheme (@pawelgrzybek.com) 💥 Help shape @mixin (@lea.verou.me) 💥 Anchor-interpolated morphing (@chriscoyier.net) 💥 corner-shape UI elements (@utilitybend.com) ...and more: css-tricks.com/whats-import...

I'm doing my taxes.* -- * I'm building scripts to help me do my taxes.

The "Find Your Three" Pattern: When at an impasse, imagine there are a hundred ways through that would unblock you (expand), and then find the three that work for you (select). In this article, we apply this to learning, reading books in particular. everyonewantsprogress.com/0111-a-hundr...

Polsia written backwards is...

This is great asymco.com/2026/03/26/t...