Andrew Hearst

Happy birthday, Emily!!

Breaking Away (1979)
Tron (1982)
Blood Simple (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

I saw the first one during its initial run! I was a wee lad obsessed with Star Wars (then still fairly recent) and Tron came along soon afterward.

Hey, nice to meet you!

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I was there too! He’s a phenomenal lead player

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

What is fascism but a opportunistic infection of every parasitic instinct that should have been purged from society?

Buy a Toto with a washlet, you can have this at home too!

I switched to Feedly when Google Reader was killed and I’ve been perfectly happy with it. I use Feedly in a browser on desktop, and I use Reeder (the old version) on iOS, with Feedly as the source.

I shifted almost all of my newsletter subscriptions to RSS last month and it’s made a big difference for me

“He installed Matt Fraser, former Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD’s Info Tech Bureau, as the chief officer of the rechristened Office of Technology and Innovation, or OTI. And he put the office in charge of delivering a legacy project: a “one-stop” online portal for public services called MyCity.”

18F Guides A central resource for all 18F guides and methods


You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.

I was obsessed with Watergate for years, read many books and articles about it, couldn’t believe the evil and corruption … and now it seems quaint.

Photo of J.C. Herz’s 1995 book, Surfing on the Internet: A Nethead’s Adventures On-line. The cover image depicts a woman surfing over a colorful pixelated landscape.

1995. Things were simpler then.

Alternative possible new taglines for The Washington Post:

"Sure, I can write that for you"

"Let's delve into this"

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

Thanks, Mary!

C is for cookie. That’s good enough for me.

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Billy Joel's "The Stranger" Intro - Solo Guitar on Josh Williams Mockingbird With UAFX Enigmatic YouTube video by Andrew Hearst

My arrangement of the piano-and-whistling intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It was the first album I obsessed over as a child; my sisters and I would fight over who got to hold the lyric sheet.

Toot from Helen Czerski: The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities

Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.

I have this too!

This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.

I’m so sorry to hear this. He cared a lot about all the right things. My condolences for your loss.

‘Whoa’ or ‘Woah’? Some people think "woah" is a misspelling of "whoa," and other people thing it has a different meaning. Here's why - Quick and Dirty Tips.

"Whoa" is the standard spelling, but some people think "whoa" and "woah" mean different things.

For Sale: Busy Philipps’s Marriage Stuff. Yes, Used The actor and her ex-husband, the filmmaker Marc Silverstein, host a “divorce sale” to sell their Le Creuset and her wedding veil.

The platonic (in more than one sense) ideal of a Talk of the Town story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Golem - Wikipedia

A little disappointed we haven't been using the term "Generative Large Language Models" more often, since it leads to the satisfying acronym of GLLM—which we'd naturally pronounce as "Golem."

(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)