The weird world of altruistic YouTube
It all started innocently enough. I bought a new lawn mower and searched YouTube to figure out how to use
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Turntables, vinyl, and internet music players
Back in 2019, I bought the first turntable I'd touched since the early 1980s as a kid. It
🤔 Apple Podcast algorithms
I went on a long road trip recently and I was bored so I brought up the Apple Podcasts default
Shift is happening!
Marcin Wichary has been working on a book about the design of keyboards for over 5 years and I'
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
Clever, thoughtful software design
A week or so ago, I quit Twitter for good. I did it in 2018 and it only lasted a
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,
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
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
Rewind
There's a new company that caught my eye today, called Rewind. It claims to watch and listen everything
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
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20 Years Ago Today
One day in the Spring of 1995, just a few months before I finished my undergrad
On Lanyrd, investing, and selling
Lanyrd blew me away from the day it launched. It's a way to track speakers and attendees of
Targeted Email Attacks
A MetaFilter member has told some wild stories in the past about the presence of malware attacks at their place
This is how Social Media really works
New swings!, originally uploaded by mathowie.
Earlier this month, my wife and I were thinking of what to get our
The unfortunate mainstreaming of internet douchebaggery
Today someone spammed MetaFilter on behalf of Conde Nast publications, and it pissed me off way more than the average
Another great CommonCraft video
This is a fantastic informative video for people new to internet scams. Dad, if you're reading this, please
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If you've followed this site for a few years, you probably saw my old essays introducing Google'