I went on a long road trip recently and I was bored so I brought up the Apple Podcasts default app. I was only subscribed to one or two shows I’d already listened to, so I popped over to the Browse tab to see what it offered from the millions of options out there. The …
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Shift is happening!
Marcin Wichary has been working on a book about the design of keyboards for over 5 years and I’ve followed him on Twitter for over a decade, enjoying each time he’s given followers a glimpse of his work. I even got to interview him about the project back in 2018 on my old Hobby Horse …
Playing downloaded music on the go
Doppler is a good piece of software for a specific use case I encountered where nothing else worked. I was on a long road trip recently, and I’d already gone through hours and hours of old podcast episodes when I figured I’d head over to the Internet Archive and grab some bootleg concerts from bands …
Clever, thoughtful software design
A week or so ago, I quit Twitter for good. I did it in 2018 and it only lasted a couple months before I waded back in, but this time it’s different. It was clear huge changes were coming to the platform with the new owner and although I’ve learned so much and heard different …
How to create your own VPN with Tailscale to get around stupid free WiFi network rules and protect your traffic
Today I pulled into a car dealership for some scheduled service, went to the waiting area, joined the free WiFi, then tried to pull up a YouTube video someone sent me. I got a DNS error. Then I tried to use my Twitter DMs to send a message to a friend I might see this …
When all subtlety is lost
This is a very funny image and I feel like I need to explain it a bit. Adrian Hon is a game designer who with his brother Dan helped pioneer the early ARG style games where you find clues in a real world using elaborate puzzles that end up giving you something in a virtual …
Stable Diffusion and AI generated art is absolutely wild in every way
After reading Andy Baio’s latest post about AI-art generators and artist rights, I reached out and had him walk me through how to experience it myself. We followed the instructions in this video: How you go about it It was about an hour of tinkering before about another hour of processing before I was at …
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Rewind
There’s a new company that caught my eye today, called Rewind. It claims to watch and listen everything you do on your computer (frightening yes, but also potentially powerful), while using transcripts and OCR to capture all the text that flashes before your eyes so you can find something you read or said or heard …
Andy Baio on AI generated artwork copying living artists
Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model – Waxy.org Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model – Waxy.org Stop reading this and go read Andy’s post here. It’s fascinating stuff and Andy’s been following the subject for the past year or two, exploring …
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20 Years Ago Today One day in the Spring of 1995, just a few months before I finished my undergrad degree a friend in the student computer lab leaned over my machine and said “check this out.” He double-clicked the NCSA Mosaic icon on the desktop and showed me the World Wide Web for the …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 