Teaser for the project I'm working on at Medium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnc... We've got a bit of work to do before it's ready for the masses, but you can join the waitlist: medium.com/tk

The “Merlin Challenge”: step outside, open up the Merlin app, and record for a minute. Post your results.

A lovely visual essay by Christoph Niemann: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

The latest season of the Complexity podcast, Nature of Intelligence, with Melanie Mitchell, was great. complexity.simplecast.com/episodes

English: You should avoid using double negatives. Statistics: "A type II error, or a false negative, is the erroneous failure in bringing about appropriate rejection of a false null hypothesis."

If there's one good thing that will come of all this, it is learning just how many r's and how many f's there are in tariffs.

Man, how does Booker do it. He's texted me three times since finishing his speech. Go to sleep, man!

Just checked my Signal to make sure I hadn’t missed any messages from the White House.

I finally got around to writing up a side quest I went on a few months ago to see descriptions for the aerial screensavers on the Mac: footle.org/2025/03/21/s...

Want to help us roll this huge boulder up the hill? Reach out! We need folks to help with all sorts of things. Making a thing feels at least slightly better than screaming into the void!

You can submit a receipt for a member of congress at this link (and take credit for it if you like): primary.every.democrat/submit-receipt

The collective memory of BlueSky, etc is much shorter than an election cycle. So in addition to notifying people when they can vote to replace cowards like @chuckschumer.com, we are trying to keep track of why we need to do this. Scroll down to the "receipts" section here:

Interesting article on succinct data structures, which were new to me. Neat! blog.startifact.com/posts/succin...

Hey you can follow us here: @primary.every.democrat Here's a page where we'll keep receipts for @tomsuozzi.bsky.social More to come!

I snapped after seeing Gerry Connolly fumble one too many times and made a site* that will tell you when you can vote against Democratic incumbents: primary.every.democrat *with @footle.org and @capwatkins.com

Это очередь за хлебом?

Well, I guess we should start learning Russian.

The real test of whether you're a bot is if you can click one of the links in the reCAPTCHA badge.

Apple's shareholder meeting is today (8a PST) and one of the proposals on the docket is "Request to Cease DEI Efforts". If you're an Apple shareholder, you can join the meeting and vote. Your brokerage should have sent you a link and a control number you'll need to sign in.

My wife’s favorite coffee mug is slightly too small for our Aeropress, and my coffee-drinking kid’s favorite mug is a little too big. So I designed and printed an adapter. #JustifyingMy3DPrinter

I’ve been trying to find a poem that I only remembered a couple snippets of, and Google/Kagi was failing me. After a short conversation, ChatGPT found it. Please enjoy “Song,” by Adrienne Rich: drunkenlibrary.com/2018/10/26/s...

I scratched an itch: howmuchtimeleft.com (Only a bit more than 208 weeks to go!)

Bluesky/CLI fun: Top emoji in a 10K message sample of the firehose: websocat --max-messages-rev=10000 -E "wss://jetstream1.us-west.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" | jq -r '.commit.record.text' | ggrep -oP "\p{Emoji_Presentation}" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

I wrote about migrating my GitHub Pages sites...and pretty much everything else…to Cloudflare: footle.org/2025/01/14/m...

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

OpenSCAD is cool.

I blogged! It's been a while. I wrote about what I've been up to since getting laid off. footle.org/2025/01/10/a...

I made a little game: licenseplategame.fun It needs some polish, but let me know what you think. Might be a good one to load up in a tab if you're getting on a plane tomorrow like I am.

It’s the first anniversary of my getting laid off from Etsy. I miss my colleagues and being a part of something bigger, but I’m happy I decided to stay independent.

Lazy cross-post: fiasco.social/@brad/113580...

A couple weeks ago my brother-in-law asked if there were any apps that would let him read the NYT without any Tr*mp articles. I didn't see anything I liked, so I made something: https://icanteven.app (it'll actually work on any site).

Hello, I wrote a new talk that is ultimately about how misery is a dumb strategy egoless.engineering

*sigh* FINE It's been pretty cozy over on Mastodon (fiasco.social/@brad), especially with a great client like Ivory (as I type this in a little iPhone view on an iPad like an animal), and despite some serious failings (not being able to see all replies, no search), but...

Pleased to announce a new #Jepsen report on Datomic Pro 1.0.7075. Datomic is an unusual system in many ways. Temporal! Immutable! Datalog! Strong Session Serializable*! We found that Datomic appears to offer Strong Session Serializable inter-transaction semantics, up to Strong Serializable when…