I like to read on the web, and I bookmark the pages I found worthy of note in my Raindrop account. Fellow Internet person, this list is as close as you can get to my personal stream of thoughts.
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the people of St.…
On the long haul flight
https://read.scottmonaco.travel/p/please-return-to-your-seat
A probiotic paradox
Comparison is the thief of joy.
A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
Pick a color for each abstract concept.
You say you want to know more about the horror bug that we eradicated only to discover it is making a comeback? You are in luck.
https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/oh-good-screwworms-are-back
archived 2 Jun 2026 01:48:26 UTC
A couple years ago a family member who was thinking about starting their own consulting company reached out to me, and I wrote up a long answer to them about what I had learned so far that I hoped …
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2026/05/advice-for-new-and-aspiring-consultants/
Helping you fall in love with CSS.
https://www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell-someone-you-appreciate-them/
My child is in high school and I’ve been in deep mourning for the last two years that they’ll (likely) be leaving me first for college, and then for...life!
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-deal-with-your-kid-leaving/
https://bsky.app/profile/standplaatskrk.pl/post/3mkb5zu4nm22o
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange,...
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
You paid $3,000. The agency kept 40% as overhead and margin.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3000-website-lie-you-both-agreed-stefan-iordan-qlzaf/
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-support
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
i often think about this review
https://bsky.app/profile/mikexnichols.bsky.social/post/3mes2hozcp22p
Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.
Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260102-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeks
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
https://giantbomb.com/articles/rami-ismails-top-games-of-2025
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.
Internal ≤ external.
La publication scientifique est encore aujourd’hui la condition sine qua non pour établir une carrière universitaire.
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/910671/faire-avaler-machine?
"AI first" leaves humans nowhere. Learn about the Bus Factor and how the launch of ChatGPT has changed the landscape on knowledge sharing.
https://www.mindflash.org/coding/ai/ai-and-the-bus-factor-of-0-1608
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.
There is more than one way to dice an onion…
Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like GitHub CEO...
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person
archived 15 Jul 2025 21:06:08 UTC
In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up
How to get people to NOT contact you
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/stop-doing-ux-cheerleading
An essay by Austin L. Ray
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
https://vgbees.com/im-great-at-baby-steps-because-i-walk-like-that-in-real-life/
archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC
As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.
https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening