Why you: the sublime realism of Maria Popova
Maria Popova, writer of the Marginalian, a collection of dense, emotional, and inspiring writing, has a gift for touching the ineffable. She has a sublime (in t...
Category: The Narrative
Highly suggestive uncertainty: Is Claude smarter than a puppy?
For almost 20 years, I, and some others, have been using puppies as a yardstick for smart things. We kinda push back at this idea that software and services nee...
How Creative Commons powers my designs
I remember the early days of Creative Commons. Such a subversive idea to make copyright so nuanced and so easily used. To me, the heart of it is all the folks w...
My first sales event on Grey and Slate, Haberdashers!
My first sales event on Grey and Slate™! All shirts 25% off thru 02 Dec for Etsy’s Black Friday promo. Hand-drawn circuits and maker references (NE555, op...
Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good?
Six weeks ago, Qualcomm acquired Arduino. The maker community immediately worried that Qualcomm would kill the open-source ethos that made Arduino the lingua fr...
New watch, new discoveries
I went on a journey to get an analog field watch. I did get one I am happy with. But I learned a few interesting things along the way. Fine things are not for m...
Another data point on the eternal quest to not use smartphones (BONUS: data points from 2008, 2013, and 2017)
Back in 2008, I was the Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations, the main Nokia blog. Like a good tech blog back then, in addition to industry news, product rev...
Is AI homogenizing our thoughts. Or are we just being idiotically lazy?
I’ve been meaning to post on this since the article came out a month ago (see link below). Back then, this article did trigger a bunch of discussion. But ...
Project: Spotify “like” Shortcut
I built a silent, tap-based Apple Shortcut that lets me like the currently playing song on Spotify. Y’see, often my phone is in my pocket when I listen to...
I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s ...