We run this edition since 2012 in Freiburg. Always lovely to be, where Vitaly and I started it. Here are a few impressions of the days. Full album…

New book from Ed Yong! Life Beyond Measure: Nature’s Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. “A bristlecone pine rounds the corner of its fifth millennium; shorebirds fly without stopping across…

I think I bought this thing at some grocery store endcap or something. The magic is that it can do all three advocotasks: Amazing! All in one! My review: I actually kinda like it. I do reach for it wh…

I’ve just received a lovely gift all the way from San Francisco, sent by my old friend and Polaroid aficionado Scott Boms. I’ve long been a fan of Scott’s pers…

OTP (one-time password) testing is often a critical business function that opens the door to payment channels and protected customer data.…

Tracing my musical journey. Months ago, Jason Dettbarn, creator of music community Crucial Tracks, kindly asked if I would be up to participate in the Crucial Interview seri…

This is Ian McEwan’s second foray into science fiction after his alternative history novel, Machines Like Me. I enjoyed that book but it was far too eager to show off its worldbuilding—at one po…

A frequently asked multiple-column layout question is why a new paragraph at the start of the column has additional space above it. The space is the margin on the paragraph, which doesn’t collap…

As an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimaginin…

2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on…

A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the…

I spent a great chunk of last week at SmashingConf Freiburg and it was lovely as usual. It was great to meet some people I've only ever seen online and see old friends. And I am not going to lie - it…

Best food I’ve ever eaten: When in Finland go to liemi.fi/ and order SHANGHAI TACOS WITH HALLOUMI. I had them every day for four days.…

🎬 Added to the film diary:Desperate Teenage LovedollsDavid Markey, 1984FriskTodd Verow, 1995, ★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PAJackie BrownQuentin Tarantino, 1997, ★★★★Ali: Fear Eats the…