My father Phillip G. Dickerson Sr. passed away at age 77 around 5am Thursday, May 21 in my hometown of Greenville, NC. My brother and I are working on a more detailed obituary but for now, you can fin…

Back when I started staying at home under lockdown, Robin Sloan wrote a blog post called An integration loop. In it, he tells the story of The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski: Monitorin…

I saw hundreds of performers, widely separated but somehow acting in unison, performing purely for David Byrne’s pleasure—each in their own ecstatic trance. The post Light Bath appeared first on Z…

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Issue 65 of Electronic Sound details A History of Electronic Music in 75 Records; a narrative dating back to 1945! I’m making my way through the 7-hour play…

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The two main theses of my professional career have been that distributed is the future of work, and that open source is the future of technology and innovation. I’ve built Automattic and WordPre…

According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican: Here's the SQL query that found me my best ten pelican pho…

Using Spectral to style/lint check your OpenAPI specs is great! This post has examples of customising the ruleset, disabling rules, and writing your own custom style checking functions. Continue readi…

I’ve wanted to give instant.page a proper try out on my site for a while now. It’s a pretty clever approach. The script watches for when someone hovers over a link and then, when they do,…

The 6 core needs that humans have at work (BICEPS) are on my mind all of the time. In the past, I’ve talked about how to use the BICEPS core needs list to: Create predictability and stability in…

I got to share my quarantine playlist on The Isolation Station, and gave a bit of context behind some of the picks in my interview.…

Every web developer has faced this conundrum: which dependency should I pick? Why did we select jQuery over Prototype, or Prototype over Mootools, or Vue over React, or Angular over Ember, or Lodash o…

Resting on Mount Graterhorn. I'm really enjoying Lonely Mountains: Downhill, newly released for Switch this month. Fast-reaction games are not my thing, but th…