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In the late 20th century, there was a gorilla named Koko who made waves by displaying an apparent ability to talk to humans in sign language. This would've had…

I'm so sorry for blogging about blogging, you can skip this one but there IS a good cat photo at the end lmao

I was just randomly looking through some medieval books, as one does, when I discovered that a bunch of these French books for some reason had lots of pictures…

For five summers running, a working farm turned nudist resort outside a small town in southern Ontario pulled off something genuinely strange. Every July,…

It's not a new bike, its from 1993 but it's in flawless shape. My birthday is at the end of the month but I didn't want to get outbid on the ebay listing for…

Something that's struck me recently is that it's kind of weird watching my baby nephew grow up with AI slop.

Yup, I said it.

I think the child-safety internet may become the identity-check internet. What does that mean for my son?Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my…

If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found…

After deleting my corporate social media accounts, I've discovered five interesting indie platforms and online communities you might not have heard of: Special…

After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text. I am finally at peace! Do you…

I do these things to make the VPS this blog runs on less palatable for internet bottom feeders.

Hello again. It's your boy Mike here, blogging about blogging (glances at Wouter). Today, I'd like to explore the topic of making my blog posts more durable. I…

Semantics.

It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and…

TLDR: I migrated my blog. Please email me if you notice anything's amiss! What should you do when you’re busy and have been spending too much time on your…

Great startups don't win because they write more code, they win because they think differently.

early july i spent a couple of hours browsing top-level domains (TLDs) in search for my own “meme” domain, as some of my friends have had theirs which i always…

As I’ve mentioned before, we now live in a world where creative people have to prove they created the thing they created. Sit with that for a second, because…

The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market. Warning: this post…

From the Wired story More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’: Across journalism, criticism, creative writing,…