Do you have a favorite color? Does it show up all over your hobbies? I’ve always had a thing for teal – yarn, ink, pens…from aqua to deep dark teal, I love all the shades.

Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you. The corporate internet is hostile to art and the things you love do not belong to you unless you claim them for yourself. If you've been around for a while on YouTube, just look at your "liked videos" playlist and see how many of the early ones are no longer available (something you literally have to enable in the playlist settings, it's that endemic). The tools to do this in a basic way…

"Another Day in Paradise (2016 Remastered)" by Phil Collins Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel like you're in a dream? I sometimes feel like this is the song for people who say that they "don't want to get political". I guess that's one of those things that happen when you have the privilege of things working out for you. Why does it make me feel like I'm in a dream? It's the fact that I feel powerless sometimes. I think of it as if…

some code from my teenage years, back when being clever was half the fun.

Introducing @hypertexting.dev - the new home of the HyperTexting CLI and developer documentation. #MakeHypertext

This feels like Pixar’s Luxo or the classic half-dome iMac crossed over into the WALL-E universe, and looks like it is going to be cloned to oblivion. The $299 price is… interesting considering the tech inside it (parts of what it can do are highly non-trivial, and very much the kind of AI Apple likes doing). I feel somewhat vindicated that Apple seems to have built a Siri for Families of sorts, but at the same time I have to wonder what flavour of it (and when) will be available in Europe, and…

Over the weekend, John Gruber posted a piece titled “X Once Again Marks the Spot”. He announced this on Mastodon by saying “I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry.” I’m not angry, John, I’m just so very tired. Others have written about this with more gusto than I can muster. Ernie Smith’s piece matches many of my feelings. Even if X is great now (which I sincerely doubt), I definitely don’t need another social feed to follow. I stopped posting to Twitter in late 2022, and gave up on it…

Photo by @jmmoorephoto I find journaling by hand to be a great way to ground myself. Journaling via computer is great for recording events, but it doesn’t carry the same punch as writing my thoughts down the old fashioned way. Earl has instructions to burn all of my journals when I have completed this life. Knowing this gives me the permission to express myself completely in my journal. It’s not for anyone else’s consumption.

I can't quite recall when I first used this slash command... perhaps early summer this year, or maybe even before that. Regardless, it was a formalization of something I'd been doing in LLM•space for a while now, and I just gave it both a term — "shadow micro-blogging" — and a formal string, "/sh.mb" to denote it in the prompt. And here's the thing: I almost always used it at the end of the prompt, not at the start; there's an intentionality in this positioning that is meaningful. Unlike slash…

I was going to start this piece riffing on the name of Deathrow Kitchen. I had a whole thing on mortality planned, a subtle use of the word execution to slot into the cooking parts, and a not-so-subtle part about Deathrow now just being called Row in certain parts of America. But that’s naff and I am many, many things, but naff I am not. So I’ll just pull out the big guns (or should that be firing squad?!) straight away; Dom Clarke is behind the cooking. Miss the cooking at Caneat? Go Deathrow…

This review is published in the BMJ. https://www.bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026-101072 If you want to get rich quick, then you should consider joining the longevity goldrush. But, as Seamus O’Mahony describes in his brilliant and sobering book The Longevity Delusion: Money, Myths, and Bad Science, you’ll have to compete in a crowded world of “biogerontologists and other academics, pharma and biotech firms, venture capitalists, private longevity clinics, ‘wellness’ resorts, manufacturers of…

Interop is an effort to increase the interoperability of key features of the web platform across browsers. Run by a team of representatives from companies that make substantial contributions to browser rendering engines—including Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla—Interop focuses on features that are high-priority for web developers and end users. Each year they select a list of features to focus on for that year. This effort has led to a significant amount of features getting cross…

For reading books, primarily. It’s a good idea to complete one chapter each day. I have read a few chapters right now from the book Inside the Box. Of course this is not meant to dissuade oneself from reading. Like one should not think that they need enough time to complete a chapter, otherwise don’t start. Rather, it’s take some time and complete the chapter you start. Why? I guess because chapters are structured that way for the benefit of the reader. A chapter is supposed to contain a…

You know what’s flimsy?My discipline when it comes to Writober.Yep – that’s the entry for today. Hope you enjoyed.

while i had seen many reviews saying this was an overly annoying climate narrative, i think that misses the broader question they’re trying to ask: what does it mean to make art when its benefactors have approved it? ganesh and his testimony fossil fools and kenny digger and warner bros tom cruise’s performance was incredible, especially his monologue in front of the leaders on the rotating stage set design evokes a norman rockwell painting do we think iñárritu is a fallout fan?

Just a couple of weeks ago I already did a variation on this theme, and swore I’d try to do ten more totally different ones for this week. So let’s see what I can do! Plenty of reds, yellow and oranges there! I think I win (at my self-imposed game, haha).

I just had an interesting journey getting help with a failed Quad Lock product. The company made things right in the end—they sent me a warranty replacement for free even though technically I think it was past the warranty period—but there were some annoying bumps along the way. Before I tell the whole story I first want to share the most important thing I learned. The official website for Quad Lock is https://quadlockcase.com/. There’s another website, quadlockcases . com (note “cases” instead…

writingwithcolor: entropyalarm said: When describing embarrassment, blushing is typically used as an indicator. I’m white, but I recognize that darker skin tones shouldn’t show blush the same way as lighter tones. My friend, with medium skin, told me it only shows in her nose and ears, felt more as intense heat radiating from her cheeks than a visible color change. What is your insight on handling blushing? I feel this is especially important for proper portrayal of PoCs in romantic…

This week I'll be on my first-ever TCM Classic Cruise, which takes place October 13th through 18th, 2026.The cruise will take place aboard the Disney Wonder, which sales out of San Diego, making stops in Ensenada and at Catalina Island.Despite being a lifelong Southern Californian, I've never visited Catalina, so I'm looking forward to that. Our activities include a tour of the Avalon Theater and Casino.I will probably remain on the ship rather than visiting Ensenada, enjoying the ship and the…

When learning something, if the subject material is unfamiliar then it is more difficult to learn, because you need to keep it in memory. And human memory is limited. That’s why Chunking is a good strategy. Some other strategies to deal with this are - Get the information out of your memory, by writing it down somewhere - paper, your notes, whatever Familiarity with the material matters. So try chunking. Read this first in Inside the Box.

I was supposed to check out of the campground and head south for winter a couple days ago. But last week, I extended my stay thru October 16, convinced I needed more time to get everything done. The funny thing is, everything was already 99% done 🤷‍♀️ Several attempts to book campgrounds for October 16 and beyond were made, but it didn't feel like the right time to do it. Summoning my strong procrastination skills, I easily side-stepped the issue 🙄 This past Friday… While out running errands,…

Just now, Mrs Heathen was heading out to pick something up at a specific local Ace Hardware. Here in Raleigh, one company — Westlake — has bought up several Ace Hardware stores, and we weren’t sure which it was. I put “Westlake Ace Hardware” into Apple Maps, and got a fire hose of results that were 99% utterly useless — even with quotes, the results absolutely ignored my specific search string and just gave me back everything in Raleigh that included “Ace Hardware” in the name. This is…

Portrait of a Verb and not a Noun My wife and I were talking about what "art" is. I forget the context, but it comes up from time to time since we both have far too many hobbies. We have a friend who falls hard into the "what I say is art is art" camp, and who will triumphantly point at a trash can and yell "ART!" at us. It used to annoy me. It's very much a devil's advocate gambit, and the devil rarely needs the help. To be fair, though, I couldn't actually articulate what I thought was the…

This was an album I stumbled into at Audiopile ages back. It's an interesting little mixture of ambient music, everything from gentle ambient to outright glitch music playing with the tones of CD-era digital sounds. I especially love the second track, Anemometer. (The embed is a playlist containing the full album.)

From Japan, 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta (Vintage, 2013), pp. 299-300: Upon leaving the palace, Tojo directed his car first to the Meiji Shrine, then to the Togo Shrine (built in honor of the Russo-Japanese War hero Admiral Togo Heihachiro, who defeated the czar’s Baltic Fleet), and finally to the Yasukuni Shrine (where the souls of soldiers who died in the empire’s past wars were enshrined). After an hour or so of hopping between shrines in central Tokyo, Tojo returned to the army…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Celluloid, what a gift it is to us.And let us discover just what that gift was bestowing upon us in October 1986.It was bestowing the following films because they were ones that were released in that very month: Children of a Lesser God, Tough Guys, The Color of Money, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Peggy Sue Got Married, Soul Man, Trick or Treat and The Mission.And guess what?That's right. I…

I am currently on a short holiday. For the record, I do not like going on holiday, I rather stay in the trenches with my team. However, it is a holiday that I must take. By going on a holiday, I will learn what's wrong with my company. During my absence I learned that: Customers still prefer to talk to me than my team. Suppliers still call me on customers issues. My team cannot handle such conversation yet. When a customer confirms the order, I am still the person who do all the paperwork.…

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