“Meanwhile, my little home-cooked apps each do the one thing they are supposed to do, sparkle-free. These apps are substantially finished the day I “launch” them, and, unlike modern commercial software, they are allowed to just: be finished.”
Look: The illustrations of Evan Choen.
Look: The illustrations of Kari Modén.
Standing in the Doorway by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day. My Bandcamp Friday scoop. What you got?
Sites I like: Walkman.Land.
“When I was 7 I threw a ring I loved out of a car window as we searched for my dog who had run away, as an act of sacrifice to get her back. Well, guess what? She came back. And I’m still doing little spells to this day.”
Read: A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years.
Listen: Welcome to the Jam: The looney story of the decades-old ‘Space Jam’ website. A conversation with the team that built the site, also serves as a look at what making websites used to be like way back in the day.
Sites I like: 18f.org. “But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.” Fuck yeah ❤️🔥
Look: The Perception of Doors.
Read: Jonathan Goldstein Joins Pushkin Industries to Revive Acclaimed “Heavyweight” Podcast. Yes!
Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)
Look: Living seasonally
Sites I like: torrez.org
Site I like: lynnandtonic.com
Music: Rock the Cowbells by The Beastie Boys / Irn Mnky
Book (to read): State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg
Look: Ghost Tree
Watch: Inside Walton Goggins’s Enchanting 1920s New York Lodge. /via Studio Notes
Some Things, Week 6, 2025
Photo by Yama Bato.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: “Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial simulacra.”
Simulacrum: “a representation or imitation of a person or thing.”
90’s Hip-Hop: A 45 plus minutes mix of Golden Era Classics + Rarities.
Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park Wayfinding: Cool signs.
Ghimli Sans: A font with “a nice ol' boozer vibe.”
Marginalia Search: “Find lost old websites.”
The Butchers
Photo by Gaetan Flamme from worldsportsphotographyawards.com.
Found via the always great Curious About Everything.
You arrive at the harbour of a sleepy seaside town ...
Art by Owen Pomery via his newsletter.
The return of the Pebble watch
The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well 😉 It runs open source PebbleOS, and it’s compatible with all Pebble apps and watchfaces. If you had a Pebble and loved it…this is the smartwatch for you.
Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back
I’m so in!
AI Bureaucrats
You know, the world is being filled with AI bureaucrats that in the armies, in the banks, in the universities, in the governments, more and more decisions, which house to bomb, who is a terrorist, whether to give you a loan, whether to give you a job, whether to give you a place in a university. These decisions are increasingly made by AI. And these decisions are becoming opaque to us.
Yuval Noah Harari on the Hard Fork podcast.