Ideas and things from my personal site.
There’s a constant flood of AI -related stuff in my world right now — both material generated by LLMs and all kinds of thoughts from people. I’m not sure what I have to add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said, but here are a few things anyway, as I contend with a present and future that affects my own work, not to mention the livelihoods of many others or the moral and ecological…
It’s been over a decade since I’ve written anything much longer than a tweet. footnote 1 This is entirely my own doing; something always felt more important, or I convinced myself that writing my thinking down was not worth the trouble. There are so many lost thoughts, and I’d like to apologize to them, wherever they’ve gone. Times — and my own determination to write things down — have changed.…
It’s hard to know what to say about all the terrible things happening in or created by the United States these days — disappearing immigrants in Minnesota and everywhere, covering up for years of sexual abuse, stripping trans people of their rights in Kansas, or bombing schools in Iran; the list goes on and on and on. I’m reminded of a quiet conversation from Andor , footnote 1 between Karis Nemik…
I was hoping I’d have this site up and running early this month, but I’ve been preoccupied with the occupation of Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the rest of Minnesota. We’re doing our best to stand up to fascism, but it’s exhausting work, and we can use all the help we can get. Fortunately Naomi Kritzer has guidance on how you can help our friends and family and neighbors.
One of the cool things about the hash at the end of a URL is that it can target an ID on the current page and auto-scroll the window to that point on the page. You can even use CSS to style it with the :target pseudo-class . This is a nice thing, especially on long or complicated pages. But it’s not perfect. If the target of the hash can’t receive focus footnote 1 and you hit Tab , you won’t go to…
One of my favorite things about Abram & Zora’s school is that students are encouraged to develop Personal Learning Projects. This year Abram was interested in cosmic rays, partly inspired by our listening to the “ Bit Flip ” episode of Radiolab . So we used a bunch of household materials to build a cloud chamber, acquired some dry ice, found the darkest room in the house, and set to recording. The…
There’s a pretend Latin conjugation of yolo floating around. It (probably unfortunately) got me thinking that the word form and conjugation could be improved. footnote 1 The conjugation pattern feels like it should follow that of irregular verbs volo , nolo , and malo — even more so because yolo seems to convey a sense of desire or longing. A Latin version of yolo should also probably begin with…
Ramya Sethuraman interviewed me about my interest in accessibility, especially while building the original version of Facebook for Business . I’ve preserved it here in case the original interview URL rots into oblivion. I also fixed a few typos and updated the markup. Developer Spotlight: Erik Vorhes (User Interface Engineer, Business Marketing Team) Am I as thoughtful as I think I look? Can you…
By far the best shot from another Zora photo shoot, when she came up to me and said, “Daddy, you stay with me.”
Zora and I had a brief photo shoot last night. We got some great shots, and then she decided to turn it into a game.