Media Diet

2021-04-03: Media Diet: March 2020 Week 4 👩🏼‍🔬 The World’s First Programmable Organism Xenobots are the first living creatures whose …

2020-10-31: The Effects of Vaccine EUAs on Continued Trials Several interesting takes on what will happen to vaccine trials once Emergency Use Authorizations …

2020-10-22: MSYS sounds interesting engineering.fb.com/data-infr…

2020-10-05: Bad idea to embed PHPickerViewController in a tab bar controller? ❓👨‍💻

2020-09-02: I’ve been trying out different Kombuchas over the last week. This is my favorite so far. A nice …

2020-04-13: A neighbor’s sidewalk poll

2020-04-07: Stare Down

2020-03-02: Media Diet 2/16 - 2/22 Coronavirus 🦠 How Epidemics Spread and End 🤲 NYTimes Video on washing your hands with so many …

2020-02-19: Media Diet 2/9 - 2/15 🔗 💼 A 2020 Retrospective on the History of Work 🎞 Why ‘The Mandalorian’ cites Fortnite dev …

2020-02-09: Media Diet 1/15 - 2/9 🍎 The Apple Archive An exhaustive archive of Apple marketing and PR material throughout the years …

2020-01-16: Media Diet 01/01 - 01/15 🔮 AT&T predicted the future in 1993 With tons of predictions about cell phones and network …

2020-01-15: Giving Amethyst a try.

2020-01-02: Media Diet 12/9 - 12/31 🔧 The Blue Tape List I started a new job with Automattic at the beginning of this month and started …

2020-01-01: First try at some homemade miso soup. Shown in one of the lacquerware bowls that we got in Narai …

2019-12-17: Announcing your intentions to potentially kill your product in 3 years is certainly one way to …

2019-12-13: Seems like this would be great for security cameras instead of blowing out images when in night …

2019-12-11: Jack’s post on decentralizing Twitter: twitter.com/jack/stat… Hopefully this will be …

2019-12-09: Media Diet 11/25-12/9 📖 Finished A Little History of Economics on audiobook. A nice short summary of some of the key ideas …

2019-12-06: 🎊🎊🎊 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) brings a new language to the Web as WebAssembly becomes a W3C …

2019-12-05: My wife says she hears calls for these nearly daily as an EMT. But it shocks me that 8 people a day …

2019-12-04: Is Denver bad at snow plowing? Turns out there are some good reasons, but the budgetary difference …

2019-11-26: 2 things Apple could add to News+ to make the subscription worth it: Dark Mode Save my place on an …

2019-11-25: Media Diet 11/18-11/24 📍 Democrats Should Talk About Place-Based Policy America should make it easier for people to …

2019-11-20: Don’t tell me how to dance! 💃

2019-11-19: Apple Map’s Expanding to the West and Midwest Noticed this in Colorado a couple of months ago. …

2019-11-18: Media Diet 11/11-11/17 📚 Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record Worth reading, at times long-winded, but the amount of …

2019-11-11: Media Diet 11/1-11/10 🌜 Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal: Program Alarms We’ve been watching the new Apple TV+ show, …

2019-11-05: Great gif if you ever misspell callsite as calcite

2019-10-29: New Apple Maps design has reached Colorado! And this 3D mapping of the Denver Airport is pretty …

2019-10-29: Media Diet 10/29 The Sweet Silence Of The Great Sand Dunes, On Track To Become The First ‘Quiet Zone’ In The US Great …

2019-10-18: Podcast Friday: Nice Try 🎙 Discussions of attempts at creating utopias. From architecture to …

2019-10-18: I love this shot from the Wildlife Photography of the Year awards.

2019-10-12: An Iceland sunrise 🌅 🖼 📷

2019-10-09: Media Diet 9/29 - 8/5 These 7 Social Security myths just aren’t true, no matter how often you hear them - MarketWatch Good …

2019-10-05: Iceland ✈️ delayed for 24 hours. Plenty of time to enjoy Denver beers. 🍻 🇮🇸

2019-09-30: Media Diet 9/23-9/29 Inside Bill’s Brain: A Netflix limited series on Bill’s past and Bill & Melinda …

2019-09-27: Attacking aircraft instrument landing systems: blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/2… Wireless attacks …

2019-09-25: A decent shot of Red Rocks with Night Mode

2019-09-24: ☕️ 🐕

2019-09-23: Going to be a good week of Cloudflare announcements 👍

2019-09-23: Media Diet 9/15-9/22 Elizabeth Warren Interview - Some nice bits about her teaching career. Edward Snowden on Fresh Air - …

2019-09-20: Thoroughly enjoying the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Loved this aside in the Easter Island …

2019-09-20: Coffee shop 🐕

2019-09-19: The best iPhone 11 Pro commercial: www.youtube.com/watch

2019-09-19: Did a switch just get flipped for this?

2019-09-16: 2019 Fall Foliage Map is back! 🍃🍂🍁

2019-09-08: 🔗 Air Conditioning is Warming the Earth (via Kottke) Air Conditioning is Warming the Earth Air conditioning is very greenhouse gas-intensive, which …

2019-08-23: This new shell looks pretty cool Nu Shell www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/i…

2019-08-23: Starbucks’ Monetary Superpower TLDR: 6% of Starbucks’ liabilities are in gift cards to customers. …

2019-08-20: Facebook should be classified as a publisher already. Political advertising rules don’t apply as …

2019-08-17: Don’t Crush Cans Before Recycling Them TLDR: Flattened cans won’t be sorted correctly in …

2019-07-29: Plenty of snow still to be found!

2019-07-26: 🎵🔗 Love this macOS retro music + video streaming site: poolside.fm

2019-06-28: An interesting analysis of back testing strategies. Financial Backtesting: A Cautionary Tale - …

2019-06-24: Discussing Digital Pollution The core idea is that we must be able to converse about how the digital economy is affecting our …

2019-05-29: No other media could get away with spreading anything like this because they lack the immunity …

2019-05-28: Takeaways from @pinboard’s campaign security work …as you will see there is plenty to …

2019-05-28: Gorgeous Memorial Day weekend in Carbondale.

2019-05-24: When getting sued for copyright infringement and accused of terrorism means you’re the good guy. 🙄 …

2019-05-23: Effects of High Altitude All true

2019-05-23: What an incredible story Hassan Bennett acquitted of murder while acting as his own attorney - The …

2019-05-23: This is very cool. Opening up more ways to get open source development funded is a fantastic next …

2019-05-21: The prefetch data sources have got to be one of my favorite APIs. You implement two methods and …

2019-05-21: 2FA is the solution, at least right now. …

2019-05-20: Rain all day, I suppose

2019-05-18: From 1975 SciFi feedproxy.google.com Webbed in a continental data-net that year by year draws …

2019-05-16: Good article about The Guardian’s profitability. Hopefully more can figure this out. Want to see …

2019-05-15: I always assumed the power consumption from OLED was all or nothing. Really nice post about how to …

2019-05-10: Great photos here depicting the incredible scale of the urban environment and the people in them. 🖼 …

2019-05-10: I wonder how effective goats are compared to controlled burns? 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…

2019-03-25: Ikea Hacks for People with Disabilities 🔗

2019-03-25: Dark Mode on News+ would go a long way toward making it the best reading platform. The obnoxious …

2019-03-25: The Economist is available from the library but not on News+ (perhaps not surprising given the app …

2019-03-21: Infinite Elizabeth Holmes Horrifying

2019-03-20: 401(k)s versus 403(b)s TLDR: if you’re using a 403(b) you may be paying exorbitant fees on …

2019-03-20: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Looks good 🎥

2019-03-09: Great, timely post on how Telluride handles avalanche mitigation: Telluride’s avalanche-battling …

2019-03-06: NASA Captures Supersonic Shock Interaction - NASA 🔗

2019-03-03: Study Links Rise of SUVs to the Pedestrian Safety Crisis – Streetsblog USA 🔗

2019-02-16: Not so thrilled with dog Animoji #dog

2019-02-09: Urkel-os

2019-02-07: Best visualization of the speed of light I’ve ever seen. Just beings to show the vast scale of …

2019-01-31: Gorgeous conjunction of Venus and a crescent moon this morning. And Jupiter was right close by as …

2019-01-25: 🔗 There is some incredibly messed up stuff going on in here: www.revealnews.org/article/f… …

2019-01-21: Oh wow, this looks like it will be awesome once the radar is fixed. An instrument for tracking dyld …

2019-01-19: New dog treat receptacle 🐕

2019-01-15: Had to read and write Objective-C today and wanted to immediately rewrite in Swift. Autocompletion …

2019-01-12: 🎵📖 2 musical companions to Circe: God of War Assassins Creed Origins

2019-01-07: 🔗 📖 A fascinating article about how spiders may rely more on electric fields to fly long distances …

2019-01-04: 🔗 A ranking of the healthiest vegetables by a nutritionist: melmagazine.com/en-us/sto… Glad …

2019-01-04: Discovered this nice album thanks to the always excellent selections on @Marketplace: …

2019-01-02: Glad I revisited Davenport Cabinet with this newer album 🎵 itunes.apple.com/us/album/…

2018-12-31: Watched 3 2018 🎥 today The Tale Heart wrenching true story from the director. Excellent portrayal of …

2018-12-29: A good, cold morning of skate skiing ❄️

2018-12-24: Christmas 2018 In Moab Gorgeous snow covered red cliffs in Canyonlands. Canyonlands National Park.

2018-12-23: Just watched Snowden 🎥 Liked the bits about how little people care about their privacy; even with …

2018-12-23: Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

2018-12-23: How the IRS Was Gutted — ProPublica 🔗 “The IRS conducted 675,000 fewer audits in 2017 than it did …

2018-12-22: Some of my favorite Best of 2018 posts so far: Kottke.org Articles Lonform.org Kottke’s Best …