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I’ve been fascinated with copyright since high school and with open source licensing for most of my career. Yes, I’m a nerd, but I really do find it compelling to think about how humans communicat…

Three soaring above at 7pm today, 30th April—much earlier than usual. Previously: 2025, 9th May (but I’d been away for the preceding week); 2024, 7th; 2023, 7th; 202…

Adam Serwer writing about the yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that guts much of whatever remains of the Voting Rights Act: In states with large Black populations that remain under Rep…

Hideo Nakata, 1999, ★ Whatever the Exorcist II apologists may tell you, its legendarily scatterbrained attempt to rationalize the irrational is not something to aspire to, even more so…

After building a feature I’ve always wanted, I hear from users that they’ve always wanted it, too—they just didn’t think to ask for it.…

Design tooling, LLMs, and why I still use a pencil. A friend and I were talking about AI and the question of where I lie on the spectrum came up: “I’m now on the handmad…

The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the wh…

Sister Ray Davies, whose debut album Holy Island featured on my top 20 of 2025, played Oxford's diminutive The Library pub in Cowley Road last night. They're a dreamy shoegaze duo from Alabama's Muscl…

Since we moved from city to rural land, to a house where the bathroom and kitchen are outside, my boy observed: “This year there are way more full moons.”…

A practical use case for rendering HTML+CSS to a canvas, an emerging API being previewed in Chrome.…