I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Discord, GitHub, Codeberg, Photoshop, and more. There are also those talking about leaving the web entirely for the smallweb (Gopher, Gemini, etc). The reasons vary. Pricing changes, AI training on everything you post, a new owner, a new policy, or just the slow feeling that the place stopped being built for you. But the posts all have the…

On October 3, 2025, I published a local Brooklyn news report titled Christmas Countdown Clock in September. The article began: I was walking up Degraw Street on the afternoon of September 29, 2025, when I happened across an unexpected seasonal decoration: An inflatable snowman with a Christmas countdown clock. As you can see in the original link, I did deliver the promised inflatable snowman with a Christmas countdown clock, which accurately indicated that we were 86 days away from Christmas. I…

Read the full post at - Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion Is possibly one of the best teaching tools I’ve ever seen on the internet. The concept is simple. There have been about a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. We each are occupying one of those lives, but what would it have been like to be another life? And it takes what we know from the median person from time and place and simulates if you could draw another random life,…

I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to decide whether to stop in a little bodega on the way home from an errand to pick up a professionally-made sandwich with 💕everything💕 or to go home and made an OK sandwich with the few ingredients I can be bothered to keep on hand. Lately, the numbers have been OK. The last time I blogged, the numbers were sorta-OK but, annoyingly, not agreeing. Lately they've been agreeing! I've resumed going places.…

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Marcin Wichary has posted today an article “The left hand should know what the right hand is doing” on his blog Unsung. It shows several scenarios across different apps and websites, in which one part of the app suggested something useless or impossible, while the other should already have been aware that it makes no sense. I immediately remembered two similar cases. 1. Amazon shows ads for refrigerators after I bought one This one is maybe borderline, but I suppose not many people decide to…

Screenshot taken from Itch.io page The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is a cute online game by the designer of another game I love, A Short Hike. You explore a small town, carve pumpkins, and do other Halloween stuff! It’s only an online game for the month of October but you can play offline all year. Every year they add more stuff and even from playing for just 15 minutes I already found something new. I suppose it’s possible that it’s a thing from last year that I just never saw but it…

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Bit of an update! Some recent links from me, and lots of links to other people. Yes.

Two similar adjectives appear throughout the Bible: tam (תָּם) and tamim (תָּמִים). Both come from the root תמ"ם, and both can describe someone as upright, complete, or perfect. But they aren't always used in exactly the same way. Yaakov (Bereshit 25:27) is called an אִישׁ תָּם, while Noach (Bereshit 6:9) is an אִישׁ צַדִּיק תָּמִים. Iyov (Iyov 1:1) is תָּם וְיָשָׁר, while Avraham (Bereshit 17:1) is commanded to be תָמִים. So what is the difference between the two words?Let's start with the…

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I’m really grateful to work at a place like GitHub where accessiblity is really taken seriously. But, industry-wide, I feel like we haven’t seen as much care and dedication to accessibility historically. Anecdotally, I’ve heard countless developers ask the question, “how do I get my bosses to care about accessibility work as much as I do?” It’s an important thing to have, a no-brainer in my opinion, and I’ll not argue for accessibility in this post. That being said: Now, more than ever,…

Tomorrow’s VT-Pitt game is “the first matchup in the history of modern college football to feature two unranked, 4-0 major conference teams.” (Shelton Moss). Playing Pitt is always nerve-wracking, but I’m excited.

Last night I slept great. It was certainly much needed, but I woke up after 5:00 AM! I think it was a combination of the just-right air temperature and humidity with the fan in the window. The white noise and the slight air on my face certainly helped make for a wonderful night’s sleep. I woke up feeling great. I did not have any stiffness in that leg when I got out of bed, so I was thinking I wanted to get a simple and easy WOD in before it got too warm outside. So far this week I have been…

September was all about finding out how quickly I can transition from the Summer of Speed to full-on marathon training. On the first weekend of the month I raced a mile and a 5 km road race (back to back, with a 40-minute break). Without much ado, I found myself running 155 km over the course of the next two weeks. As much as I loved the Summer of Speed, I am thrilled to turn the speed into a fun marathon experiment. I will pace a good friend in the Munich Marathon on October 11th. Thereafter,…

A modern take on the iPod Classic with USB-C and Bluetooth? Yes please! 🤤 Who knows if this will ever see the light of day, but a boy can dream! 🎵

Sarah Smith Point of No Return With crystalline vocals, saw wave synths and crisp percussion, the latest release from Sarah Smith is a stark slice of electronic pop carved from the same materials as the music of Chvrches and Robyn. Based in New York, and still in the formative beginnings of her music career, Sarah began her relationship with performance far in advance of writing her own songs, dancing at the age of four. She went on to perform professionally on projects for the Brooklyn Nets…

Wayne Thiebaud, Santa Fe Cloud, 1991, oil on canvas, 9 1/8 x 10 1/4 in, via Jonathan Novak Oh wow, move over, 12×12 inch painting of a tennis ball for Sports Illustrated, I have a new favorite tiny Thiebaud painting. @chrissantamaria just posted this 1991 work, Santa Fe Cloud, which is at Jonathan Novak in Los Angeles. Artsy lists just one dimension for the work, 15 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches, but that turns out to be the fat shoplifter prevention frame. The painting itself is only 9 1/8 x 10 1/4…

• 5-star hike • 2 mile out-and-back • Moderate | Gain 780 feet • Lincoln, NH | White Mountains . Georgiana Falls's largest cascade. Calling this a hiking trail to two waterfalls undersells the experience - Georgiana Falls and Harvard Falls are each comprised of a number of cascades and plunges. On our visit we continued to be startled by a new spectacle at almost every turn of the trail. The signposted route to Georgiana Falls starts by passing twice under freeway carriageways and turning right…

Telescope PEak As I mentioned in my last blog, Brennan, our oldest son, is an avid mountaineer. One day, he was lamenting the fact that most of his climbing buddies were getting older and no longer wanted to tackle mountains with him. I suggested that maybe he and I could find a peak to climb together. He was quite enthusiastic about the idea, and we settled on Telescope Peak in Death Valley.At 11,049 feet (3,368 meters), Telescope Peak is the highest mountain in Death Valley National Park. Its…

yesterday, i imagined a tree. today, i walk between pale walls, toward the light and the green leaves above. a small reminder that life is near. painting by john singer sargent

So I got a new tablet and as I was setting things up on it, I noticed that VLC kept crashing upon trying to parse my audio files. Android’s logcat gave me the following lines: 10-01 17:49:23.228 3650 3685 E VLC-std : libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::invalid_argument: stoi: no conversion 10-01 17:49:23.228 3650 3711 E libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::invalid_argument: stoi: no conversion --------- beginning of crash 10-01 17:49:23.228…

Learn the 10 telltale signs of AI-generated UI design gone wrong, from gradient overload to misaligned elements that scream generic slop.

Big drops on small webThe heavy morning dew highlights the grass spider (genus Agelenopsis) spider web seen in the grass beneath our feet.

Mike Zaschka, speaker, developer and active member of the community, has just announced "onedevatlas", which feels to me like something we need but didn't realise it. The SAP community has produced various catalogues of tools and libraries in the past, and these have been great. But perhaps in today's age, where it's easier than ever to create new software, the need for awareness and knowledge of the tools and libraries that are being built, and of the people building them, is greater than…

I had a fragment of a song I started to write recorded on my phone quite some time ago. I happened upon it by chance this week and expanded the lyrics and recorded a vocal and a guitar part, then mixed it down. Now, one of the original lines I had in the demo snippet on my phone was “downsize your emotions” an allusion to jetisoning emotional baggage, but using the figurative notion of moving to a smaller house. Clive-upon-Sea liked the original song but thought that phrase sounded a bit like…

June Ku was my partner of nine years and a core reason why Misaligned Markets exists. Two years ago, she gave me a very generous Christmas gift in the form of seed money for both this blog and a related project. June also graciously designed this blog’s logo. More than that, though, June was a mentor who nourished my philosophical curiosity, which very few people have meaningfully done.My discussions with June, sometimes heated but always earnest, taught me a lot about philosophy while testing…

We have multiple Wonderland222 Planners available in various sizes and formats. It’s October, and “Planner Season” has officially arrived. Our allocation of Wonderland222 planners and notebooks is now live and available for purchase online and in-store. The 2027 lineup of planners and notebooks features 52gsm Tomoe River Paper, and we have stocked the 576-page All-in-One models as well as the slimmer “Core” planners. Grid Tomoe River notebooks are also available. Our exclusive Tono & Lims Inks:…