Channel Candide and cultivate your garden in the web. A delightful read!

stop what you’re doing please stop scrolling stop “doing social media” read this be angry, then be inspired, then go make something and have fun, please, i implore you ily @strange.website, aka henry from online, aka friend, aka The Speaker of Truths aka my hero

<begrudging> AI can be really useful (although we don't really need AI for this task) to OCR and then translate and convert to metric measurements an old family recipe for Christmas cookies for cooks in France :)

Twitter/X has turned into such a toxic waste dump, I’m seriously considering just deleting my entire account there, you can’t say anything without getting a pile-on. Anyone keeping their account but just monitoring it without engaging, or full deletion, what’s our strategy here?

building is fun

Today I learned that mixing antique lighting with modern lighting takes a very sure hand and is very easy to get wrong. And I got it wrong and am going to double down on acquiring more antiques. Most modern artifacts are really badly made, out of proportion for old rooms, and honestly pretty ugly.

Merry Christmas to everyone except those ppl posting pictures of gingerbread mocktails on TikTok without a recipe

This story about Brown and the apparent connection to MIT's shooting makes me sick to my stomach. I'm glad they seem to have caught the perp but what a horrible waste of brilliant minds, both student and faculty. How incredibly sad.

keeping my damn door locked, we need an arrest

@nytimes.com time to start reporting on the other stories, we have a really bad situation at Brown and now MIT. This feels really scary

I just realized that before sunglasses, veils could shade the eyes. Nice 1930s style. I have a good collection of hats...time to bring them back

I didn’t even have the energy to go to our UU Messiah sing, such a depressing timeline

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

Folks, I found it cookingwithkarli.com/christmas-lo...

I'm gratified to see so many folks enjoying this talk, and maybe you will enjoy it too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tJ...

This week we realized we need Donna Summer ice skating routines!!!!

I can regale them with stories of attempting to pump in the bathroom of my makeshift office in the early 2000s. I was lucky and my boss let me take my lunch hours to feed my baby. We’ve made progress here and it’s painful to slip backwards.

Cozy time

With Cloudinary you can spin up a holiday-photo card generator that builds collages, adds styled borders, backgrounds, and greeting text with 1 line of code. Try it out → dev.to/cloudinary/b... #webdev #cloudinary #holidaycards #javascript

Hey folks, tomorrow myself and a bunch of other web perf experts are going to be talking about all things Core Web Vitals! Come join us live Dec 3 at 11am Eastern! #webperf cc @henrihelvetica.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/dQqqOYA...

I had a great time at PixelPalooza's online event - a lovely example of how successful and engaging these can be. Kudos to the whole team for these events. The thoughtful moderation made all the difference! Here are slides for my talk on rethinking the Cozy Web: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/a-...

AI Drop #12 is out! www.linkedin.com/posts/jenloo... - let's talk about interior design

Officially the first snowflake of the season

Who you gonna call?

It should be illegal to have that much charm. Spread it around, my mans!

Remember when Larry Summers talked about how women were just inherently bad at math for whatever reason - why did everyone just shrug and move on..what does it take to get thoroughly discredited? I remember this like it was yesterday. Biology as destiny ad nauseam. www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/arc...

In London, hoovering up tea and other delights

AI is, however, GREAT for this www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMGyLQot/

AI is good for some things. But I firmly stand on the hill that it’s wrecking a lot of domains. Education across the board is the first that comes to mind. It’s plainly marketed as a thing to replace teachers and do your homework for you. Now we see effects in MIT grad student performance—

Nice bit of civic hacking here www.project2025.observer/en

I’m just thrilled to see a First Lady with real, edgy, authentic STYLE

Closed on our new house. Well, new as in 1935 vs current house c. 1900. Now the work begins. Need wardrobe (geez those prices!)

You know how you're supposed to get more conservative as you grow older? I'm becoming increasingly the more extreme opposite. Interesting to watch.

Best vibes on TikTok rn 🫰🫏

1533, Melanchthon: “they insult us, they wrinkle their noses, they make faces behind our backs when we admonish them.” And even the attitude of parents: “if their child has done something right, the teacher does not reap any praise. If [their child] made a mistake, it is blamed on the teacher.”

These are brilliant. Peak creative work, such as substituting zip ties for whalebone

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Sick as a dog after a simple conference. I’ll have to really curtail my travel if this keeps up and just be super selective

Sorry for the barrage but there’s too much breakage and vandalism of historic artifacts rn and I care about this stuff. Very nearly pivoted a few times to museum work over the past few decades and this stuff makes me crazy.

Meanwhile, let’s file this one under #obviously - they’re obviously going to break down these parures and sell the stones and metal. — Why Steal From the Louvre? It May Have More to Do With Stones Than Art. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...

An apt representation of the vandalism inflicted on the country by these people. And why on earth is this not a protected historical building? Yes the part he’s ransacking was built in 1902 but not messed with since the 40s. What trash.

FWIW I build my EdTech on @firebase.com (GCP) 💪

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

En route!

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This lady is 97 and still out there protesting, her mom and grandma did the same to get women the right to vote in 1920. My mom was in the League of Women Voters and I marched on Washington in 1989 for women’s lives. I hate that we are backsliding but will do what I have to to support our rights!

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming, the unmissable Chopin competition! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHvNpTQDb...

Hussies of all stripes united #nokings #wellesley