Halation
A playable phosphor ecosystem: glowing bubbles eat, grow, and drag a cooling persistence trail across a green CRT. Vanilla canvas, no dependencies, no build step.
Harlan Lewis
Designer, builder, mediocre mountaineer.
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What Should Be Done ϟ
Dean Ball argues the US should regulate frontier-AI labs as institutions, audited against their own safety frameworks, rather than licensing individual models.
Mt Baker
Splitboarding the Squak Glacier and booting the Roman Wall to Mt Baker's summit, with a corn descent past seracs over two clear days.
Backpack 20L
An overbuilt, double-walled everyday pack with a padded laptop sleeve and waterproof zippers, sewn from Challenge Ultra around salvaged parts.
Travel Duffle 30L
A water-resistant carry-on travel duffle with backpack straps, a braced end cap, tubular-webbing straps, and a hidden AirTag pouch, built in two versions.
Round Top
An extended weekend touring and corn skiing around Round Top near Carson Pass, with town lunches between runs and auroras from a record solar storm.
Mountaineering Pack 40L
A rolltop mountaineering and ski-touring pack in Challenge Ultra (replaceable harness, framesheet, and avalanche pocket), later extended to 55L.
Bugaboos
A road trip into British Columbia's Purcell backcountry for a few days scrambling granite and glaciers, where every car was wrapped in chicken wire against porcupines.
Mt Hood
A summit of Mt Hood by the common south route: past Devil's Kitchen, along the Hogsback, and through the Pearly Gates.
Total Eclipse at Bull of the Woods
Watching eclipse totality from the decommissioned Bull of the Woods fire lookout during fire season, Mt Hood and Mt Jefferson thrown into glowing orange.
Mt St Helens
A skin tour and snowy camp, then a climb to the crater rim and a 4,000-foot splitboard powder run on a bluebird day.
Denali Tundra
A trailless meander through the tundra below Denali's glaciers: grizzlies, a caribou herd, a wolf preserve, and a brief glimpse of the summit far above.
Mt Shasta
A summit of Mt Shasta via Avalanche Gulch, a first Cascades climb and a first time on crampons and ice axe.
2014 Accel Design Conference
Notes from a 2014 design conference: panels with leads from Slack, Pinterest, and Dropbox on metrics discipline, friction as feature, and the limits of flat design.
Mailbox and the Todo Protocol
A 2013 read on where email clients were headed: inboxes as todo lists, Mailbox's protocol moat, and why the email-client space is so hard to defend.