D.C.’s Capital Weather, formerly with the “Gang” appendage, has moved out of the Washington Post for reasons most of us can gather. Supporting their new thing (@capitalweather.bsky.social) is a good use of old Post subscription money.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

If you’re one of our many readers who wants an electric car that won’t track you, Slate might have what you’re looking for.

I wrote a post at Ars Technica about an OSS garage opener device and 1/3 of the comments were demanding that I paint the raw drywall in my garage. Ars really trains you as a writer in, like, fourth-dimensional defensive objection thinking.

"Scrabble that doesn't drag" is some (unwitting) freelance marketing copy I did for my friend @qrush.bsky.social and his new game, Wordtrak: wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05...

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Paperless-ngx + Tailscale for a secure, searchable stash of all your actually important documents. Local AI tagging entirely optional. tailscale.com/blog/paperle...

"[T]hey want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI" Alongside the bold plan to win users by... building a better browser. I'm here for it. www.pcmag.com/news/firefox...

Things I didn't expect to see today: Mamdani opening a statement about improving New York's heating infrastructure by quoting Val Kilmer in the "not fully appreciated 1995 Michael Mann classic, HEAT".

Everyone’s saying “Miroslav Šatan” and they’re absolutely correct: Miroslav Šatan.

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

there may not be a more fun name to say than Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 🦬

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Slackbitrage (n.): Posting slick memes and links from one Friend Slack full of clued-in people to another Friend Slack that has no membership or interaction overlap, such as to boost your own slickness. Usage: "Did he just stumble across that John Wick meme, or is this Slackbitrage?"

Here’s how Tailscale handled MacBooks “notching” its menu bar icon—starting with a coy little code fix and ending with a whole new windowed Mac UI. tailscale.com/blog/macos-n...

I've been giving out advice on battery charging and longevity—in paid writing, to friends and family, any time it comes up—pretty much my whole adult life. This is one of, if not the best, summary of what actually matters: randsinrepose.com/guides/apple...

Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF. The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC. That's been made possible thanks to Metro.

DC was the only postwar US city where residents successfully fought back against new freeways & chose to reallocate transportation funds instead to a brand-new metro network. Rather than just a line or two through the city center—like Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore—DC got a real network. It paid off.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

I'm turning 36 years old this month which means it's time to put childish things behind me. This way everyone can see my collection when I'm on a Zoom call.

Had a real “Get right with @obsidian.md ”’day. Amazes me how unobtrusive that program is to new ideas and systems. Just a modern marvel.

Would you be a good leader of a communal fallout shelter in the event of World War III? Fortunately the US Department of Defense created a self-assessment quiz in the 1970s so that you can "rate yourself as a potential shelter leader"… doomsdaymachines.net/p/take-me-to...

Hey, weirdos (adulative)! Here's a thing about getting iMessage on all your devices, if you're the type to keep a Mac running all the time. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

Who even hates the Bills that much? It is a suffering brought forward out of deep time by the Old Gods, suffering not compassed by any mere human spite or schadenfreude, but immense—implacable—indifferent—and whose meaning is its meaninglessness.

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

1. Pirates! (NES) 2. Maniac Mansion (NES) 3. Chrono Trigger 4. System Shock 5. Jagged Alliance 2 6. Fallout 7. X-Com 2 8. Elden Ring 9. Disco Elysium 10. Satisfactory

Years In Review, 2022-2025: thepurdman.com/2022-to-2025...

People (even some non-HN-reading people!) have been enjoying the jailbroken Kindle post. It is *always* the post you think is too niche, too late, too specific that gets legs. I thank @annaleen.bsky.social for the perfect quote via KOReader. (Buy their book!) tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

Suddenly it’s just … fun and easy?

Computer couldn’t run System Shock as a teen. Later, I had to fill in covering a speech by a big college donor.

Ask me how I know!

I'll see you there, too. #AllThingsOpen

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Among the many things that improve once you set up your gear on a Tailscale tailnet: no longer having to remember IP addresses and passwords for SSH-ing into headless devices. tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

I have a "Home State Movie Club" with some friends, and this is my household's pick for Upstate NY*. "Nobody's Fool" feels more like upstate NY than any movie I've seen. * Having NYC in your selection pool is like having 1/4 of all movies available, so we chose creative constraints.

After I got the CMS keys, I got down to the first order of business at @tailscale.com : Writing 2,000 words about using Tailscale to make Chromebooks more multi-OS-friendly. No more Drive folder named "Drop" for me! tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

incredibly well-researched, super helpful, and, frankly, fun piece from @kimberstreams.bsky.social about how to deal with tariffs when shopping online!

Love that guys who won like 6 games here a year come back and are treated like heroes and will do anything for us. Buffalo is a weird stupid family

My obligation (?) to share this good game professionally (?) has long since passed. Also, I did write about it, twice! But this was a very good game, and I am going to replay it for both the build choices and dialogue trees (!!!) store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

The only reliable wireless printing, or even just networking printing, I have been able to achieve at home in this lifetime is by running a dedicated CUPS server on a Raspberry Pi (now a Pi Zero 2W). Don't even let people tell you something is a solved problem. Gutenberg: still relevant in 2024.

Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university.

I domained!

Did the NYT really rip off a verge story about an influencer allegedly ripping off the aesthetic of another influencer? Or did they just happen to cover the same lawsuit in a similar way a couple of weeks later? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

I have Parker House rolls, freestanding rosemary olive bread, and English muffins all slow proving in the fridge. The sourdough starter has never felt so 🍄🦠🐲aliiiive🧬🍄‍🟫🍇.

These rolls (from “A Good Bake”) are half sourdough, half instant yeast, all wonderful. Made for Friendsgiving, might have to make again.

NOTE TO ALL GAMING PR PEOPLE, PLEASE STEAL THIS IDEA Email I got for [embargoed review game] includes estimated completion times for: * "One run of the game" * "Time to gain a good overview of the game and gameplay cycle" * "Unlock all characters and weapons" * "Completionist"

When I say DC is undergoing a cycling/streets-level revolution, this is what I mean. For the fifth straight month, Capital Bikeshare ridership hit an all-time high in September 2024. It was the 33rd straight month (!) with year-over-year growth: ggwash.org/view/97337/b...

I wrote about moving away from Buffalo, NY, a city that is easy to caricature, tough to love, impossible to fully leave behind. thepurdman.com/leaving-buff...

Today I saw a Burger King commercial call food a “hunger hack” and felt the need to offer the world an apology

1924: what if automation did all our backbreaking labor and freed us to pursue art and philosophy 2024: what if automation did all our art and philosophy and we