this morning / I briefly considered making Larry Wall's 1999 talk "Perl, the first postmodern computer language" my AGENTS.md file / then I went back to doing something else – www.perl.com/pub/1999/03/...

Exciting News! We’ve added a new feature to the SFO Museum Aviation Collection website! You can now see similar object images derived using machine-learning computer-vision models on object pages. Check out our collections page at: bit.ly/4r8R8IC

"Here is a silly example summarizing each paragraph in this blog post." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2026/02...

See more of Afatasi the Artist’s Afrofuturist designs in "Women of Afrofuturism" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: bit.ly/Women-Afrofu... #AfatasiTheArtist #BlackHistoryMonth #Fashion #Afrofuturism

"Obviously, the circles could also just be seen as bagels. That wouldn't be wrong either." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

"As such these objects are included because they are generally similar in nature, or spirit, and as a way to help you discover things in our collection which you might have otherwise missed." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2026/01...

fish-waves / and lemon-hills – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

If you would like our 200+ page exhibition catalog, please email us at [email protected] and we will send you one, free of charge! bit.ly/FashioninFli... #FashionInFlightFriday

"At the end of the day it’s a jacket. We hope the certificate of authenticity offers some guarantees, or comfort, if you need to treat it as a financial asset but, mostly, we hope you just enjoy wearing it." – shop.orthis.social/pages/certif...

The @sfomuseum.bsky.social aviation collection has new aerial imagery / and we have published some experimental work about hosting and serving the entire planet OSM @protomaps.com pmtiles database, locally and offline, on a recycled ipad – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/12...

In October, SFO Museum conducted a special tour of “Women of Afrofuturism” lead by our curatorial consultant Ingrid LaFleur and San Francisco artist Afatasi The Artist. Watch the video on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upz... #WomenofAfrofuturism #IngridLaFleur #AfatasiTheArtist

See “49 Scenic Mile Drive” by Bradley Smith and Tyler McPherron in the Video Arts Gallery, located pre-security in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall, and open daily from 8:00am to 10:00pm. Learn more about this month’s films at: bit.ly/Video-Arts #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO

SFO Airport Museum's map viewer is powered by a raster pmtiles archive + leaflet millsfield.sfomuseum.org/map/#2025/fg/

I wrote up the notes for the talk I gave to a museum studies class at USF / titled "everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels" – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

"Raven had been sleeping so long, he had molted and regrown a full coat of feathers and his new feathers were white and beaming light all over the world and everybody laughed at Raven as he danced around like a kite playing in the wind. ... " #PrestonSingletary #GarthStein

"Conversations with Large Language Models: Memory Rain, Echo Rain and Echo Cubes" – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

"Dancing like no one is watching in a panopticon of slop" – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

In the era of cell phones, it seems difficult to imagine how revolutionary telephone technology was for its time. Transcontinental telephone service, made possible by the tube amplifier, officially launched on January 25, 1915. #GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

"And yet, in as much as everything we do and say online, and increasingly offline, is being recorded, archived and strip-mined for meaning you can rest assured that this is kind of crap that will most certainly go down on your permanent record." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

Our newest exhibition “Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective” is now on display in Terminal 2. Early types of telephones ranged from large wooden wall telephones to candlestick desk sets. The rotary dial telephone, with a handset on its base, permeated American homes by the 1930s. #GiveMeARing

can someone who is comfortable at the intersection of atproto, "did:plc:" and Go confirm for me that is (or is not) the correct way to mint a new "did:plc:" DID / it seems to work but the documentation on all this stuff is squiggy enough that I am not really sure – gist.github.com/thisisaaronl...

Marshall Moxom (1916–2007) was a San Francisco-based photographer active between the late 1930s and mid-1970s. Moxom frequently worked at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), where he made aerial photographs and documented terminal construction, events, and airport personnel. #MarshallMoxom

"There is simply no universe, in 2025, where a museum app (which doesn't exist by the way) will "let you skip the security line [at an airport] if the museum is at peak occupancy"." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

What’s happening at SFO Museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition “Give Me A Ring: A Telephone Retrospective!” #GiveMeARing #BehindtheScenes #SneakPeek

Working with a team of artists at his studio in Seattle, Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary (b. 1963) finds innovative ways to push the boundaries of modern Native art and glass sculpture. First, objects are created in the hot shop by glassblowing, hot sculpting, and casting. #PrestonSingletary

I made the tools / to generate contours from images and video stills / using a webassembly binary / to be honest I'm not sure I remember why either – github.com/aaronland/go...

For decades, Black musicians have imparted Afrofuturist themes into their music. In the 1970s, women, such as legendary jazz musician Alice Coltrane, explored universal consciousness. #WomenofAfrofuturism

So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten

"There is a special kind of acid-lemon yellow which digital colour spaces produce which is impossible to reproduce in pigment. I have been living this problem since we started doing the prettymaps prints." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

The American Association for State and Local History (@aaslh.org) proudly announced that SFO Museum is the recipient of an Award of Excellence for our recent exhibition "Rosie the Riveter: Womanpower in Wartime."

everything is terrible / but now you can search the @sfomuseum.bsky.social aviation collection website by colour / you can also refine arbitrary other-property searches by colour too / blog post to follow – collection.sfomuseum.org/objects/colo...

What’s happening at the museum? We’re preparing for our latest exhibition, showcasing the works of Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary. Have you ever wondered how objects are stored at the museum before they’re displayed? #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeak

What is going on at the museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition “Preston Singletary: Raven Visits SFO” featuring recent works of art by Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary paired with "the stories of what Raven is up to these days” by Tlingit author Garth Stein. #behindthescenes

everything is terrible / so here is a picture of a promotional cigarette lighter in the form of a zeppelin / to capture the moment – collection.sfomuseum.org/objects/1511...

I wrote a blog post / about tools and tooling / extracting colours and palette-matching / and flirting with the forfeiture of nuance in the rush to probability-driven automation – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/05...

See “Figure” by Isamu Noguchi on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: bit.ly/3RSXkEP

in news that will likely only be of interest (let alone mean anything) to a handful of people / and an equal number of AI scraper bots / all the images in the "orthis" archive now have IIIF manifests / it's hard to overstate how dorky IIIF is but it works – projectmirador.org/embed/?iiif-...

everything is terrible / here is a picture of a postcard I made for a friend's child in 2021 – aaronland.info/orthis/196/4...

have you ever wanted a simple web application / for calculating dates and times in a bunch of different timezones / which can run both locally and offline via service workers / I did so now it exists – github.com/aaronland/go...

What’s going on at the museum? We are preparing for our newest exhibition “Women of Afrofuturism,” which opens May 17! As a museum in a nontraditional location, our staff works extra hard to design visually appealing graphics to attract passengers to our exhibition spaces. #BehindtheScenes

the website archiving all the "or this..." works / has been updated to use the mystery-meat-woo-woo of vector embeddings / to show you similar (sic) works / for all your spelunking enjoyment – aaronland.info/orthis/

What’s going on at the museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition on “Women of Afrofuturism!” Condition reporting is a very important aspect of our exhibition process. #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeek #WomenofAfrofuturism

This is your last week to see “Rosie the Riveter: Womanpower in Wartime!” The Second World War had a profound impact on working women in American society. Women joined the workforce in record numbers and filled industrial positions previously denied to them. #RosieTheRiveterSFO #RosieTheRiveter

everything is terrible / here is a picture of a wave – aaronland.info/orthis/196/4...

"The Placeholder geocoder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: ... I am happy to say that we are now able to build our own custom databases which address all of these issues." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/04...

there is now a go-whosonfirst-spatial-wasm package which provides a webassembly binary for doing client-side in-memory point-in-polygon queries and is meant as a compliment to the privacy-enbettering "point-in-polygon-with-maptile" stuff I mentioned the other day – github.com/whosonfirst/...

have you ever wanted to retrieve location records intersecting and trimmed to the boundaries of a map tile in order that you might use that data to perform point-in-polygon operations locally without having to send precise coordinate data to "someone else" / now you can – github.com/whosonfirst/...

the food delivery scooter guy / filmed the guy walking his cockatoo on a leash / as they crossed the road

perhaps the reason I have kept thinking about this talk by @saraimari.bsky.social / is because it resonates with my argument that the thing which distinguishes culture from entertainment is the act of revisiting / regardless it is a talk worth watching and considering – longnow.org/seminars/020...

did you know that once upon a time open flames were totally cool on airplanes / and that because they were we used to make little airplane cargo container shaped matchboxes / now you do – collection.sfomuseum.org/objects/1964...