Laura wrote about my long list of likes! You can tell that my list is incomplete because nothing from Laura's blog is on there.
Many many years ago I wrote a bookmarklet that automatically saves, likes, and archives the current page in Instapaper, for times when I wanted to remember something I read that I didn't read in Instapaper. That stopped working at some point but maybe it's worth trying to revive it as an iOS share sheet tool…
Hey I am still talking about Instapaper. Today I fetched my 500 most recent Liked articles from the Instapaper API and put them on a page in the order I liked them. I'll try to remember to keep it updated. There is no commentary or endorsement or anything, it's just the stuff that made me go "huh." Check out a really long webpage!
Kind of interestingly, my 500th most-recent Like was almost exactly five years ago.
In other Instapaper news, Kobo launched their official integration with Instapaper and it is really good. Better than the old Pocket integration was. I've abandoned my crusty PDF-generation workflow and updated the corresponding blog post too.
I noticed that a lot of my favorite Instapaper reads were from Defector so I joined Defector recently. It's my first time paying for journalism, which is maybe embarrassingly late to note? I was also surprised to see that Defector is nominally a sports publication. There's lots and lots of great non-sports stuff on there.
I love when I see the same album for multiple years in my Backtracks email, because it usually means I saw that album in my Backtracks email in a previous year and was inspired to listen to it again. In the Backtracks community we call these “combos” and compete to get the longest chain. My record is 4!
I find these Grandin Road "Expressive Pumpkins" extremely charming. They are papier–mâché for some reason!
I just had a tour of your newly renovated theme park. I hate to be that guy, but I just want to mention that, while you refer to your destination as a theme park, it would be more accurate to describe it as a motif park.
Excuse Me, but Your Theme Park Is Actually a Motif Park - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
I am trying to see what VR is like these days without giving money to Meta so I bought the world's shittiest phone-mount VR headset at Five Below only to discover that YouTube removed VR headset support from their iOS app at some point and there's not much else out there. Seems like mobile virtual reality has just disappeared.
For literally no reason I've updated the Javascript on my non-interactive GORILLAS.BAS browser port. I originally wrote this in 2014…in CoffeeScript. You can read about why I made it on this article I published at the time, featuring a lot of dead links to Twitter and perhaps the cleverest title on this website.
Just learning about genre painting, a style which depicts ordinary people in everyday life. This article in Art UK offers a ton of examples full of forensic storytelling. I was considering new inspiration for my experiences and realized that instead of thinking of the medium as a small stage, it might serve me to think of it as a large canvas. We'll see!
In my mind, Ice Spice's verse on "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" is full of confident assertions about Yosemite Sam. In reality I think she only mentions him maybe once
From a blog post about generating dynamic prose by Aaron A. Reed. She loved chocolate bar.
Another day of trying to convince Frontend Engineers that they deserve better than CSS-in-JS, another day I want to throw my computer in the river
There are a lot of good reasons to leave Instagram, but for some reason I find the network effect stronger there than it was on Twitter. I think some of that is how high the garden's walls are; I get a lot of specific information about people and local businesses I care about from their Instagram Stories which can't be seen without an account and usually doesn't exist anywhere else.
I wish I could tell those people—indirectly, collectively, with only the slightest provocation—that they are the reason I'm still there. I bet many of those people feel the same way, about me or others, and wish they could do the same. We could probably use that information to lift entire slices out of the Meta social graph all at once.
I still go to cohost dot org almost every single day even though I am fully aware that there will be nothing new to see
Another banger from Ted Chiang: Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
For those of you who chart the weather by my watch band: I switched from leather to nylon today so now it is warm
I wrote my own dang forum software. Come check out my little baby community if you please!
I hope Owen Pallett is playing Animal Well