I think it is important we keep reminding people that once you could search an internet by keywords, adding keywords to get more precise results. Those search results were not sponsored or optimised.
You could find things. So many things.
It was a wide open world.
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
Dr Manhattan on Mars meme It’s 1979. Visicalc and BASIC mean we don't need programmers any more. It’s 2010. Web 2.0 APIs and NoCode tools mean we don't need programmers any more. It's 2026. Claude Code and Agentic coding means we don't need programmers any more.
Feeling my age today
a white hippie guy with white-guy locs and a tie-dye shirt sitting in the dirt in the woods playing a didgeridoo
A coworker informs me that multiple NIH studies support learning the didgeridoo as a cure for sleep apnea.
I've always enjoyed all of your work, but for me the ones that always come to mind are the Pern covers and the Heinlein covers.
hearing “thanks to AI we now have way bigger PRs, so we need to start using AI to review them” does not fill me with confidence
Welp. The internet had a nice run.
Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.
"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."
Person dressed like the Muppet Beaker
MEEP FOR SCIENCE
#StandUpForScience
A question from a job description: "Are you experienced with Figma?" Below that, there are the Yes and No buttons. Yes is gray, and No is white.
Real quick: which button looks like it's been pressed?
anyway there's no reason to be on substack
you can leave the nazi bar any time
you aren't making the nazi bar less nazi by hanging out with the nazis
the nazis just think it's cute you're buying their drinks
and you're doing a grave disservice to the readers who don't yet know the difference
As I'm well into the third decade of running my blog, I can't emphasize enough how true this is. The only place your stuff will remain online over time is the place you own.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
My Moth Ma'am
Should I be concerned that on the sites with algorithmic/targeted ads, I keep getting ads for apps for self-care and burnout recovery? And what does it say about current society that there seem to be multiple services for this specifically? 🤔
Came out a few years ago now, but it’s been on my mind recently: Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. I really like the conceptual space and how she handles magic. And linguistically it’s just a very pleasant read.
as a kid we didn't eat out much, but when i did, my favorite was Chicken McNuggets with honey mustard sauce
now that i'm an adult, i have much more refined tastes. for example, for dinner tonight i had karaage with dijon-hachimitsu aioli
5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by:
Douglas Adams
Robert Heinlein
Anne McCaffrey
Roger Zelazny
Andre Norton
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...
Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID.
It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
Oh good, it’s not just me.
Please please my fellow journalists who are writing "Data centers in space!" pieces, read this breakdown from a retired NASA engineer before you publish. At least to ask yourself some questions. taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Nice! I’m also from the Salem cohort, Rebecca Nurse. And ironically, my wife is descended from of the judges 😅 Small world!
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
And any time they propose removing the ability to turn off those notifications, they have to write “The needs of the user come first” on a chalkboard 100 times.
The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
Tell me your pet’s name in a GIF
The poster to hermit pipeline is a biological phenomena
