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Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...

All ambiguity is resolved by actions of practitioners at the sharp end of the system.Dr. Richard I. Cook, How Complex Systems Fail There’s a wonderful book by the late urban planning professo…

Building a vehicle mounted solar power system? Let me help.

A rant on the significance and meaningfulness of metrics, or lack thereof

The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards

It’s okay to not know everything. The world rewards people who develop expertise. When that expertise is unique, it’s developed through direct experience and deliberate reflection.

You've read an article this year telling you not to buy gift cards. This is not that article; it's about infrastructure.

Carbofuran, a century-old chemical, is increasingly being weaponized against birds and other wildlife, decimating entire food webs.

While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-publishing route.

The promise of a decentralized and trustless future is forever just that: a promise, and in the future.

Ethereum emits around 20 ktCO2/day, similar to 2–3 coal power plants. Estimated from hashrate, GPU efficiency, miner location, and more.

What are people missing when they look at generative art?

Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen on why we need to rethink the role of work in our lives.

It is deadly, invisible and shapes much of the food we eat. A teaspoon of it could kill millions of people, and it is probably the most expensive material on earth. Yet you probably have some stuck to the bottom of you shoe.

Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Edifice is a series of 976 generative artworks, minted as NFTs on the ethereum blockchain through Art Blocks.

Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.

Some writing about probability, programming, economics and life.

A multi-media smart canvas for your mind.

Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?

All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view.

Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but many employers said there’s a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste.

Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.

An article describing my experience and tips after rowing 15 million meters over 8 years.

An open-source guide for anyone interested in becoming an ally.

For this year's Project Horseshoe, an annual game designer think tank, our workgroup dug deep into how to design cozy games. What a productive, happy group of people! You can read the other reports here: https://www.projecthorseshoe.com/reports/ Our group consisted of: Tanya X Short Anthony Ordon Dan Hurd Chelsea Howe Jake Forbes Squirrel Eiserloh Joshua Diaz Daniel Cook…