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This video from Kurzgesagt is a great little primer on how the human brain stores memories. Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Your brain uses an incredibly complex bi…

At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance! She makes the very good point that gener…

Same prompt, different results. And the fix had nothing to do with my prompts.…

There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — med…

Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback,…

Entitlement sure has come a long way, or so it seems. I remember my father telling me several times how spoiled my generation is—coming at me with sound bites he gleaned from work as if to star…

There are some beautiful moments on Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go album—a document of place, people, and old church organs. I’m married to a…

Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shoo…

The alert was concerning because it was for CPU usage by a sync worker. The usage graph showed a drastic increase starting late the day before. Unless many more users were suddenly much more active, s…

Seth’s Riff’s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!…

While I was working on my latest redesign, I added a statement explaining how “artificial intelligence” is used on my website. And in a fit of pique, I slapped this line onto the end: I am…

I speak at conferences and organize user groups, and I spend a lot of that time encouraging people to contribute to PHP and other open source projects. Inevitably, someone approaches me at an event an…

A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r…