: inside an electric violin (Laowa probe lens, focus-stacked)
: A worrying indicator of the decline of the open web I’ve recently learned of several excellent and relatively new technical and research blogs that …
: The context behind algorithmic playlists I don’t always listen to my Spotify “daily mixes,” which are algorithmically-generated playlists …
: When to leave the room Feynman’s quip “if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room” is well-known, …
: Syntax trees, APIs, templates, and languages My old pal Tim St. Clair recently lamented about the state of configuration languages on Twitter: …
: Sometimes you can’t even improve what you do measure As part of my Sisyphean quest to find a bicycle computer that doesn’t make me want to start tracking …
: Operas summarized briefly Carmen (Bizet, 1875): Man disregards advice from woman, with grave consequences. Orfeo ed Euridice …
: Tracing the development of presentation style For nearly all of my adult life, a large part of my job has involved communicating technical …
: The delights of cookbooks I was reminded today that the delights of good cookbooks subsist not merely in explaining how to …