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I spent years wishing for a better way to indicate when one of my posts is part of an ongoing series. You know the kind: Annual birthday posts for Frankie Monthly Time Machine posts Weekly photo dumps Average Apple Executive updates etc. The usual trick of linking text like “See previous post” at the beginning of the current post works OK enough, but it leaves a lot to be desired. It wasn’t until last spring that it dawned on me: social media timelines are an ideal source of inspiration for…

Caribbean Blue Enya PopShepherd Moons was one of the very first CDs my parents bought. Even now, the cover art takes me back 📦 It was a nice surprise, then, when my favorite episode of Widow’s Bay pulled off an Emmy-worthy use of my favorite Enya song. I’ve had it on repeat ever since. https://multiline.co/mment/2026/07/time-machine/

Democracy Design Lab asked Sarah Mirk to adapt Hamilton Nolan’s essay, Confiscate Their Money. They made the resulting zine available as a PDF to download, print, and distribute. Since the work is licensed CC-BY-NC 4.0, I’m reproducing it here in a format suited to reading on the web.

After a lot of hemming and hawing, Emily and I recently started watching Widow’s Bay. It’s marketed as “comedy horror,” and while we both love comedy we’re huuuuuge chickens when it comes to horror 🫣 Long story short: I love it. It’s clever, and ominous, and kooky; it’s genuinely scary in parts. I can’t get over how they made a show that blends so many different elements and genres together without making a huge mess. Which brings me to Chuck Jordan. Among many other things, Chuck is a terrific…

Home, Portland State Farmers Market, SE Division Street, and NW 23rdhttps://multiline.co/mment/2026/06/week-photos-23/

There are zero (0) bad tracks on Motor Songs, Bulgarian Cartrader’s genre-hopping album I purchased after just one listen, which boasts multiple contenders for Song of the Summer 2026 despite being released in 2022. Motor Songs Bulgarian Cartrader An amazing thing about Motor Songs is that, other than being killer bops, the songs have virtually nothing in common stylistically: we move from hints of early Animal Collective to echoes of TURNSTILE, take a detour past Flight of the Conchords, then…

Laurelhurst Park, Portland Nursery, and SE Division Streethttps://multiline.co/mment/2026/05/week-photos-22/

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Shamefully, I still play the Spelling Bee from the New York Times. It is both fair and reasonable to roast me for this. The web version of the game has built-in support for dark mode, but for some reason doesn’t expose any way to enable it. I made a bookmarklet for the mornings I wake up a little too early and lay in bed warming up my brain by looking for pangrams. Bookmarklet Steps to add the bookmarklet Note — This guide is geared toward the most recent version of Safari for iOS, but the…

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After starting at Panic back in 2012, I quickly learned that my then-coworker and now-pal James was a fountain of knowledge. He’s the kind of guy who has a deep understanding about all kinds of things, and is very giving of what he knows. Early on, I picked up the habit of checking with him when some technical thing or other wasn’t working the way I expected: “I can’t connect to the thingamabob :(” “The whatchamacallit isn’t working :(” “How do I fix the doodad?” Without fail James’s first…

If you use Nova and you’d like to use GitHub’s styles for in-app Markdown previews, have I got the stylesheet for you! Setup instructions and CSS (minimally adapted for Nova from Sindre Sorhus’s github-markdown-css)} are available on Codeberg: ashur / nova-markdown-css GitHub-flavored styles for Markdown files in Nova. (GitHub seems dead-set on speedrunning their decline in stability and reputation but, in my opinion, their Markdown preview styles are still pretty top-notch.) Enjoy!…

I wouldn’t have guessed it but, looking back, it seems like April’s music was a pretty downtempo affair. (Maybe a way to counter what felt like a hectic, harried month?) We’re well into bike season now, though, and I’m already dusting off playlists to take on a big, sunny ride 😎 Ants From Up There Black Country, New Road London Art-RockAt times, I get hints of chamber-pop-y Bill Callahan; in others, I hear a vampire puppet rock opera. I still don’t quite love the album the way I first thought I…

My dad used to ask this question that would drive me absolutely bananas. It went something like this: If you don’t have time to do it right at first, how will you have time to fix it later? I usually got this when I’d rushed through homework or did a sloppy job mowing the lawn so I could go do something more fun. He was right, though: circling back around to make it better was never, ever on the agenda. I think about this a lot these days as we collectively measure things by volume — lines of…