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Books and cats and books and cats and….
The end of last week we were in Connecticut and Andrea wanted to go to a used book store, so I suggested we go to the Niantic Book Barn.
Museum of Science
Spending a school-break day underwhelmed at the Boston Museum of Science.
The Three-Body Problem or the Three-Book problem?
In this era of “more of everything” it’s nice to enjoy something that ends.
Why Didn’t Someone Tell Me This Sooner?
Sometimes a cigar is just a useless thing to learn about.
The most writing in human history
There’s more writing going on now than ever before in human history.
Two articles on web APIs
Web links worth reading on Canvas2D and the File System Access API.
Another set of speakers for the $100 speaker shootout
Edifier R1280T compared to the JBL 104, Apple Mini and Sonos Symfonisk.
Interesting reads from the last week
Throughout the week I throw interesting articles in my Things inbox, to either file or re-read on the weekend. I’m clearing it out, but these are some I thought you might enjoy.
My favorite part of TypeScript is debugging the config
I love TypeScript, I do.
Take my books, please
I reorganized my office recently and — there’s too many books!
5 Accessibility Quick Wins (and two for this site)
Practical A11Y improvements.
Compact discs
The last time I stopped by my parent’s house they handed me a medium sized box full of my old CDs. As an elder-millennial I did have an iPod and a hard drive full of mp3s in college, so these CDs were from the pre-Internet days, and none of them were good enough that I wanted them around after graduating college. So, take a trip down memory lane with me, by way of CD.
Oblique Strategies
At some point I found a webpage that had an entire list of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. I put it in a Bear note but that doesn’t quite capture the “I just need a new way of thinking aspect” of it, so I put the list on a page, and it grabs one from the list at random.
The cognitive dissonance of digital communication.
Is a human on a Zoom call just an avatar of a human?
My first podcast appearance
Because my wife is an amazing podcaster and, when it comes to dealing with me, editor.
TIL, you can download your iCloud data
Why bother with Finder when you can grab them straight from the cloud itself.
When you steal your ideas for a self-driving car from Maximum Overdrive
Full self-driving beta controls the whole car, but you’ll only need the edge of your seat!
The End of Everything
Happy Sunday, life is meaningless. But not just yours, everyone's!
Annual maintenance
Pandemic musings while waiting for an oil change. And tire rotation. Oh and the inspection, don’t forget that.