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and of course, my mother is upset at me for not having sent her any yet to begin the ritual of unpacking, to return to my old habits and objects and find all of them a little richer from the time spent away. My to-do list is very long right now, and I’ll be spending the rest of this Sunday in my inbox. But I am so much happier than I was this time last week — my legs more tired and my head less fogged.

i’ve been thinking about buttondown’s future a lot lately, trying to work out how to turn it from “growing and largely unmapped” into “sustainable and legible”. 1 i’ve been rereading seeing like a state, so legible might not be the best choice of words here, but i digress ↩

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Instead of space, there are numbers representing flows, such as how long it takes to drive to work or the number of bars one’s cell phone gets at a certain location. Wormholes exist at every scale, from airports to freeway exits to the Redbox outside the supermarket, and determine a lot about life in these suburban environments, shortening distances between people, goods, and information and surreptitiously rearranging the city as well as the globe.

If you’re not switching over an enum, then you’re using it for its properties. We have a better tool for value types with properties: structs.

“Enums are for switching. If you aren’t going to switch over a value—outside of the type—then use a struct.”

my goal is to facilitate other peoples’ enjoyment of everything this world has to offer, whether it’s the blissful clarity of an unburdened mind ​ You will always find a home here (and, I hope, a friend).

“I contend that at 11.59 pm each night, having read all day, I am the best informed person on the surface the planet,” he says. “Then sleep cleanses my brain, and I awake next morning in a state of perfect ignorance, twitching to get to the RSS feeds once again.”

we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.

marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

But of course, email and social media and games are obvious distractions. In my experience, the more subtle threat -- particularly for non-fiction writers -- comes via the eminently reasonable belief that you’re not ready to start writing, because you haven’t finished your research yet. ​ But as much as I enjoy it, I have learned the hard way that you are never done with your research. Waiting around for the research phase to be complete is a recipe for infinite postponement. ​ when you’re researching in media res, the new ideas or details or stories that you stumble across are much more useful to you, because you can immediately see the slots where they belong.

Perhaps this is because more folks are simply not religious and that makes talking about religion easier, kind of like the dynamic of knowing what you don’t like more than what you do like (or knowing what you don’t want to eat rather than knowing what you want to eat for dinner).

When cloud processes fail, interestingly, they fall out of the cloud, re-entering our purview as small cockpitpunk crises until we fix them and banish them back to the magical aether where they belong.

Why we should all spend more time in search boxes and less time in news feeds.

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that, more or less, for some reason the machine learning algorithm for autocorrect was learning something it never should have learned.

A hidden Facebook API shows online activity, and can be used to make graphs of when people are awake.

I did all of this before writing any public criticism about Micro.blog because I want Micro.blog to be better. I love the core idea, and I'm already feeling bereft from no longer participating. But it's horrible to feel voiceless in a community you care about. I tried to make a difference and I kept hitting roadblocks. I tried to take my feedback directly to the creators and I felt ignored or brushed-off at every turn.

In 2006, Senator Ted Stevens infamously described the internet as a “series of tubes,” for which he was ridiculed, but his statement has aged well as a metaphor if not a literal description: a visual reminder of the wormholes we’re teleporting through to reach one another, the digital bridges and tunnels — the infrastructure we arrived by.

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the ones with whom I can sit and stare out into the earth. but—if we’re being honest, and we are— they tackle-danced in the 2pm breeze. I bought a Casper Glow. It’s so silly, but it’s really good. But I’m quite happy, with—and you have to imagine me gesturing wildly all around me—all of this.

Procedurally generated emails are sterile. I can’t do any of my fun little kitschy things like write about the weather or include corgi gifs. I’m going to inevitably spend more time running into arcane edge cases with this fifty-line script than I’ll spend actually writing the email.

There’s a big difference between feeling like I did some things that were failures versus feeling that I myself am a failure. Rationally, I know I’m dealing with the former, but emotionally it feels much more like the latter. ​ Transitioning and moving to a new country weren’t career progress, but in retrospect they were necessary for me to get in a place where I could focus on my career again. ​ For me right now, that means figuring out how to be okay with things not feeling “Done”, and looking for ways to celebrate the progress I’ve made even when that isn’t wrapped up in easy-to-cupcake achievements. ​ and isolation is not good for burnout. ​ Focusing so much on discrete, publicly visible accomplishments made it harder for me to see the small, gradual pieces of progress that matter more to me at this point in my career – and life. I started the cupcakes as a way to demonstrate what it meant to celebrate my successes, and I hope that sharing this will help other people see what it might look like to sit with and learn from failures as well.

but rest And patiently learn to receive the self You have forsaken in the race of days. ​ To all the small miracles you rushed through. ​ Learn to linger around someone of ease