A pair of elbows rubbing up against the edges of experience.
Stipulated: I m very happy for David Crowley. He s a great candidate I look forward to supporting today and beyond election day. If he s half the governor he is a county commissioner, he ll be tremendously successful. But I remain a Hong supporter, too, and there is nothing surprising let alone stunning about the outcome of last [ ]
The last book I read by Melissa Faliveno was her collection of personal essays called Tomboyland. I loved that book. It holds new weight four years later when the assault on queerness continues at a national scale. I imagine for many queer youth, life in towns like Mt. Horeb (and indeed even cities like Madison [ ]
A crew of Canadians and Michiganders took a remote operated vehicle (ROV) to the deepest point of Lake Superior, a point known as Superior Maximus. It s the first such attempt in some 40 years. In that attempt UW-Milwaukee researcher J. Val Klump piloted a submersible craft to the deep. This one was done by a [ ]
Earlier this week, I wrote about WP TUI, a terminal user interface for writing posts and pages on WordPress. I wrote that post, and now this one with it. Today, I m pleased to say wptui is now available on pypi and GitHub and I d love your feedback. It comes with a GPL license just like [ ]
I started working on a very simple TUI for WordPress this weekend. By I started working I mean I used Claude Code and Compound Engineering to build out a prototype. So far it can create new posts and pages, add images, and use most of the default blocks built into Core WordPress. It s meant to [ ]
I have a hypothesis that Linux and EVs have a similar characteristic: Once you switch, you ll never want to go back. Nathan Edwards in The Verge: It didn’t take long for my Linux install to stop feeling new and exciting and start feeling like, well, my computer. It’s not exactly like a less annoying version [ ]
It s easy to neglect that the New Yorker often publishes works that approach the size of an 80 page paperback in a single magazine issue: JD Salinger s Franny Zooey, John McPhee s Oranges and Coming into the Country, Hannah Arendt s Eichmann in Jerusalem: All published in their entirety, sometimes serialized, before they were books. While [ ]
I m about fifty pages from the end of Kurt Vonnegut s 1963 novel, Cat s Cradle. I ve read a lot of Vonnegut s short stories including Armageddon in Retrospect, which I absolutely loved. And so, there I stood in the Cudahy Family Library, waiting for László to find an Easter egg taped to the wall, when Cat s Cradle [ ]
Taking a break from the book fodder for a bit to talk about computers, my other love. This is kind of a long one and maybe a little nerdy. Maybe skip it if you re not big into computers. For the last few years I ve been practicing open source cartography as a little side business over [ ]
Maia Kobabe captures a lot of the human experience in this tidy graphic memoir. E is a kid trying to figure eirself out ostensibly on eir own. Kobabe captures the loneliness of being a queer kid in the late 90s and early 2000s in the real way e lived it. This book hit really close [ ]