s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr;...
0.0 Context SettingIt’s a grey morning in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 and my nearby peripheral sensors say it’s 71 degrees Fahrenheit and 40% humid at my desk.1.0 Some Things That...
View Articles14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough
s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough0.0 Context SettingA grey, cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on 26 January, 2023. Let's get on with it.1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention1.1 Your Timeline...
View Articles14e11: To help you best, I'd need to know you
0.0 Context SettingI can see blue patches in the sky today. It’s Friday, January 27, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am incredibly into listening to this Kylie Minogue cover of Bette Davis Eyes and you...
View Articles14e12: Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Monday, January 30, 2023 in Portland Oregon and it is cold and sunny, which means it is a stereotpically crisp winter morning and there are fine traceries of ice outside.1.0...
View Articles14e13: Concept Art
0.0 Context SettingA sunny, chilly Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, 31 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention1.1 Concept ArtI like science fiction and I like things that...
View Articles14e14: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on...
s14e14: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace0.0 Context SettingA sunny, clear Wednesday morning in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday, 8 February,...
View Articles14e15: Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 10 February, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and a grey, half-hearted rain of a day. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention1.1 Hey, Ease UpHere's how it starts: taking a look at...
View Articles14e16: The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That...
0.0 Context SettingTuesday, 21 February, 2023.Well! I have been away for a little bit. We are in the middle of buying a house (our first one). There’s rather a lot going on. 0.1 A brief...
View Articles14e17: Good Enough
0.0 Context SettingIt's Tuesday, 7 March 2023. I started writing this on Friday and then got waylaid. At the time, we'd mostly extricated ourselves from the just over 10 inches worth of snow that fell...
View Articles15e01: Marks on Flat Planes
0.0 Context settingIt’s Thursday, 8 June 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where the high will be 78f / 25.5c today, and the rough carbon load in our atmosphere is 420ppm. It’s been ~90 days since the last...
View Articles16e01: I too aspire for my memory to be safe
0.0 Context settingIt's Friday, 22 September, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am sitting in my study on a sunny day, which sun is fighting a valiant effort to struggle through and past the window, the...
View Articles16e02: Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible...
0.0 Context SettingIt's Tuesday, 26 September 2023 in Portland, Oregon. We are under an atmospheric river. Sunday night I had the exciting experience of spending eight hours in the emergency department...
View Articles16e03: It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the...
0.0 Context SettingWednesday, 27 September, 2023 in Portland Oregon and it is not raining right now. Thank you everyone who has sent a note -- I will be replying soon and totally not feeling guilty at...
View Articles16e04: Hands, Brains, Eyes
0.0 Context SettingIt's Tuesday, 28 September, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and this has been a difficult newsletter to write because the words didn't fall out. But, I suppose they came out eventually.Here...
View Articles16e05: Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur...
1.0 Context SettingIt's Friday, September 29, 2023 and I am sat on the couch in the family room listening to Apple Music's Living in the Library Apple Music Electronic playlist. I have just finished...
View Articles16e06: Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem
0.0 Context SettingA grey Monday, October 2nd 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm open for my next block of consulting work and looking for interesting people to work with and interesting problems to solve....
View Articles16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful
0.0 Context SettingIt's Tuesday, the third of November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm excited about the people who've booked a virtual coffee with me1, so if you've been on the fence, go grab one.Just...
View Articles16e08: Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise
0.0 Context SettingIt's Wednesday, 4 October 2023, and I've typed for a long time today. Today is over four thousand words but I swear it shouldn't be hard. So. Here you go: a case study in a thing...
View Articles16e09: Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 5 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I had said that I was going to take a break today as an act of compassion. I have a habit of going hard for things and then feeling...
View Articles16e10: Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks;...
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 6 October, 2023 in Portland Oregon and hoo boy it's going to be unseasonably warm for autumn. I described this in a chat yesterday as "nice, and a horrible omen of things to...
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