October 31
Jabo’s Annual Halloween Cartoon 2026
Wassup ghouls and gargoyles? It’s that time o’ year when the weather gets wicked, the countryside goes dark and the tv political ads get incredibly annoying. Be glad you aren’t a Muslim, trans kid, immigrant, dumocrat, Socialist, Communist, empathetic human or otherwise awake! Celebrate by enjoying this year’s cartoon extravaganza with a secret twist (no… it’s not Dick Cheney’s neck… he's already dead, silly)! Jabo’s Annual Halloween Cartoon 2026 is now alive and creeping around the interwebs. Make it so!
Wassup ghouls and gargoyles? It’s that time o’ year when the weather gets wicked, the countryside goes dark and the tv political ads get incredibly annoying. Be glad you aren’t a Muslim, trans kid, immigrant, dumocrat, Socialist, Communist, empathetic human or otherwise awake! Celebrate by enjoying this year’s cartoon extravaganza with a secret twist (no… it’s not Dick Cheney’s neck… he's already dead, silly)! Jabo’s Annual Halloween Cartoon 2026 is now alive and creeping around the interwebs. Make it so!
October 28
Is it Art...or Trash? now has a daily game
Hi all, I made Is it Art...or Trash? and some of you tried it when it was posted here last December. There's now a daily game where everyone gets the same film, song, book or game and tries to guess whether the AI critic called it ART, TRASH or Fast Food before seeing its ruling. The critic is still AI and it's still a gag rather than claiming to be an authority on art. Although I mostly agree with the verdicts :D After the daily there's free play with a streak, or you can enter something yourself. No login needed. The feedback from that thread led to some fixes which I appreciate, including no more judging textbooks :) Previous thread: https://www.metafilter.com/211461/Is-it-Artor-Trash
Hi all, I made Is it Art...or Trash? and some of you tried it when it was posted here last December. There's now a daily game where everyone gets the same film, song, book or game and tries to guess whether the AI critic called it ART, TRASH or Fast Food before seeing its ruling. The critic is still AI and it's still a gag rather than claiming to be an authority on art. Although I mostly agree with the verdicts :D After the daily there's free play with a streak, or you can enter something yourself. No login needed. The feedback from that thread led to some fixes which I appreciate, including no more judging textbooks :) Previous thread: https://www.metafilter.com/211461/Is-it-Artor-Trash
October 27
The Guy I Almost Was
The Guy I Almost Was by Patrick S. Farley is a web comic published in 2009 about living through (and becoming disillusioned with) 80s and 90s cyberculture. It perfectly captures a certain vibe that you'd have it you were a certain type (male, middle class, gen x or elder millennial) when we would naively say things like "information longs to be free". It's about the promise of the internet and personal computing meeting the economic reality that most people didn't have the disposable income to buy the electronic toys required to participate. [more inside]
The Guy I Almost Was by Patrick S. Farley is a web comic published in 2009 about living through (and becoming disillusioned with) 80s and 90s cyberculture. It perfectly captures a certain vibe that you'd have it you were a certain type (male, middle class, gen x or elder millennial) when we would naively say things like "information longs to be free". It's about the promise of the internet and personal computing meeting the economic reality that most people didn't have the disposable income to buy the electronic toys required to participate. [more inside]
URL Roulette: give a link, get a link (rebuilt)
URL Roulette is a link exchange I’ve run since 2017: you submit any URL and get sent to the one the previous visitor submitted. Over 192,000 links so far, all from people. I’ve just rebuilt it from scratch, and added a Vault of themed collections from the archive and a weekly five-link newsletter. I’d love feedback from people who still remember stumbling.
URL Roulette is a link exchange I’ve run since 2017: you submit any URL and get sent to the one the previous visitor submitted. Over 192,000 links so far, all from people. I’ve just rebuilt it from scratch, and added a Vault of themed collections from the archive and a weekly five-link newsletter. I’d love feedback from people who still remember stumbling.
October 26
MeelMore - A Calm To-Do list for ADHD brains
A To-Do list that works for my brain, and hopefully yours too (regardless of neorodiverse status)! [more inside]
A To-Do list that works for my brain, and hopefully yours too (regardless of neorodiverse status)! [more inside]
October 23
Spam Therapy
I made a little site to help spammers reflect on what they do, and hopefully get better. Feel free to use it as your default reply to them, which was sort of my original goal. Why confront when you can comfort. Love, and peace.
I made a little site to help spammers reflect on what they do, and hopefully get better. Feel free to use it as your default reply to them, which was sort of my original goal. Why confront when you can comfort. Love, and peace.
October 22
Dem Bones! - a spooky marionette powered by Web technologies
Visit the site to see a skeleton. Grab your phone, and scan the skelly's QR code, and now... your phone is "tied" to the skeleton like a puppet! Dance, skeleton, dance! A Weird Web October contribution that I'm unusually-proud of. [more inside]
Visit the site to see a skeleton. Grab your phone, and scan the skelly's QR code, and now... your phone is "tied" to the skeleton like a puppet! Dance, skeleton, dance! A Weird Web October contribution that I'm unusually-proud of. [more inside]
October 19
All Systems Nominal, a sci-fi TTRPG podcast
All Systems Nominal is an experiment in talking about sci-fi indie table top role-playing games with myself and Dougal Cochrane [more inside]
All Systems Nominal is an experiment in talking about sci-fi indie table top role-playing games with myself and Dougal Cochrane [more inside]
October 16
2nd ever LP released!
After a long time writing, producing, revising, worrying, and occasionally wondering if I was ever actually going to finish this thing... utilities included is officially out! 13 tracks. A lot of different sounds. And more of myself poured into one album than I think I've ever put into a single project. [more inside]
After a long time writing, producing, revising, worrying, and occasionally wondering if I was ever actually going to finish this thing... utilities included is officially out! 13 tracks. A lot of different sounds. And more of myself poured into one album than I think I've ever put into a single project. [more inside]
October 15
James McMurtry: Pics from four of this month's UK gigs.
Bristol, Nottingham, Islington and Oxted. All from the past week and all with me and my camera as close to the front as we could get. (BlueSky thread). [more inside]
Bristol, Nottingham, Islington and Oxted. All from the past week and all with me and my camera as close to the front as we could get. (BlueSky thread). [more inside]
What Type of Vampire Are You?
Put an end to the uncertainty by comparing your appearance, weaknesses, powers and habits to 104 variants of blood-sucker.
Put an end to the uncertainty by comparing your appearance, weaknesses, powers and habits to 104 variants of blood-sucker.
October 14
Quiet Blocks - a chill tetris game
There is no score. It does not get faster. Just play until you do not want to play anymore. Tap top half to rotate. Tap below to move. Double tap bottom to drop. You can right-click and save this page and own this game forever. [more inside]
There is no score. It does not get faster. Just play until you do not want to play anymore. Tap top half to rotate. Tap below to move. Double tap bottom to drop. You can right-click and save this page and own this game forever. [more inside]
Panigma: a daily Wikipedia category guessing game, in six languages
Guess the Wikipedia article from its own categories, against the clock, and if they are not enough, from its picture and the initials of its title. Eight articles a day, the same eight for everyone, playable in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese, and you can answer in any of them. Free, no ads, no account. The idea is not mine: it starts with MeFi's own brainwane in 2006, by way of Kevan Davis and Klipspringer's catfishing.net. [more inside]
Guess the Wikipedia article from its own categories, against the clock, and if they are not enough, from its picture and the initials of its title. Eight articles a day, the same eight for everyone, playable in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese, and you can answer in any of them. Free, no ads, no account. The idea is not mine: it starts with MeFi's own brainwane in 2006, by way of Kevan Davis and Klipspringer's catfishing.net. [more inside]
October 13
Parcel: one plot a day
A small daily tile-laying puzzle. Everyone is dealt the same ten tiles for a three by three plot. You may hold one back or bury one along the way, and the field guide under the date tells you what might move in tonight and what it needs. In the morning the animals have arrived, or not, and the plot joins the strip of every plot you have laid. Two minutes a day, in the browser on a phone, no install, no account, no ads. [more inside]
A small daily tile-laying puzzle. Everyone is dealt the same ten tiles for a three by three plot. You may hold one back or bury one along the way, and the field guide under the date tells you what might move in tonight and what it needs. In the morning the animals have arrived, or not, and the plot joins the strip of every plot you have laid. Two minutes a day, in the browser on a phone, no install, no account, no ads. [more inside]
Kestrel’s Hall: four game-night favorites from the 90s, rebuilt for the browser
My Virgo Month of Leisure project got a little out of hand: free browser versions of Wiz-War, Waving Hands, hnefatafl and Diplomacy, four games I spent countless hours playing with friends in the 90s and have barely touched since. Play friends from wherever they are, or take on computer players with enough fight in them that a solo game is a real game. No accounts, no ads, no timers, nothing for sale. [more inside]
My Virgo Month of Leisure project got a little out of hand: free browser versions of Wiz-War, Waving Hands, hnefatafl and Diplomacy, four games I spent countless hours playing with friends in the 90s and have barely touched since. Play friends from wherever they are, or take on computer players with enough fight in them that a solo game is a real game. No accounts, no ads, no timers, nothing for sale. [more inside]
October 11
How US housing prices compare to local income
A little tool to show US income versus housing prices since 2000, per county. It's built with Claude and will certainly have inaccuracies, but it does a pretty good job of getting a feel for each region. [more inside]
A little tool to show US income versus housing prices since 2000, per county. It's built with Claude and will certainly have inaccuracies, but it does a pretty good job of getting a feel for each region. [more inside]
October 9
Nelson's book reviews
A website with nearly 700 book reviews from the past 12 years. This started out as a copy of my Goodreads account but turned into something I'm pretty excited about, particularly the ability to slice the data by various facets. For instance, the lesser known queer SF I've read. [more inside]
A website with nearly 700 book reviews from the past 12 years. This started out as a copy of my Goodreads account but turned into something I'm pretty excited about, particularly the ability to slice the data by various facets. For instance, the lesser known queer SF I've read. [more inside]
A simple flight simulator game (Three.js)
I vibe coded this simple game, using Google Gemini. It uses Perlin noise for the infinite, generative landscape. How many coins can you collect before you crash?
I vibe coded this simple game, using Google Gemini. It uses Perlin noise for the infinite, generative landscape. How many coins can you collect before you crash?
October 4
Get your writing unstuck: a compassion focused approach
I just published a series of four articles on the My Writing Matters . Each article covers how to use the principles of Compassion Focused Therapy to get back into writing. [more inside]
I just published a series of four articles on the My Writing Matters . Each article covers how to use the principles of Compassion Focused Therapy to get back into writing. [more inside]
September 29
What do we do after we beat the Ender Dragon?
In Minecraft, killing the Ender Dragon rolls the credits, but most people keep playing. The railways, the cities, the stupid projects with friends all happen after the goal is gone. Last week OpenAI said one of its models had resolved over a hundred open math problems, and I kept thinking about that game. My argument is that automating a field's hard problems doesn't have to end the field. It can work like the tutorial ending, if the tools take away the grind without taking away the understanding. The essay also covers the difference between difficulty you chose and difficulty in your way, and the parts this optimism doesn't fix, like needing a job. It has a couple of interactive figures. I'm a CS student and this is one of my first essays, so criticism is very welcome.
In Minecraft, killing the Ender Dragon rolls the credits, but most people keep playing. The railways, the cities, the stupid projects with friends all happen after the goal is gone. Last week OpenAI said one of its models had resolved over a hundred open math problems, and I kept thinking about that game. My argument is that automating a field's hard problems doesn't have to end the field. It can work like the tutorial ending, if the tools take away the grind without taking away the understanding. The essay also covers the difference between difficulty you chose and difficulty in your way, and the parts this optimism doesn't fix, like needing a job. It has a couple of interactive figures. I'm a CS student and this is one of my first essays, so criticism is very welcome.
September 25
We Love Mystery Dungeon
My book on the Mystery Dungeon games, much expanded from its days for sale in a Storybundle, is now in print through Limited Run press!
My book on the Mystery Dungeon games, much expanded from its days for sale in a Storybundle, is now in print through Limited Run press!
September 17
Aether and Ego
My steampunk-in-space reimagining of Pride and Prejudice set on a generation ship in the 1840s, published by Inanna. An excerpt (and giveaway) is up at From Pemberley to Milton, and Mefi's own jscalzi's blog Whatever posted The Big Idea behind the book.
My steampunk-in-space reimagining of Pride and Prejudice set on a generation ship in the 1840s, published by Inanna. An excerpt (and giveaway) is up at From Pemberley to Milton, and Mefi's own jscalzi's blog Whatever posted The Big Idea behind the book.
Talk Nicer Online
A tiny project to take on online hate speech by sharing something nicer. Every time you poke the little furry guy, you get a 100% true compliment, and I'll give a penny to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). [more inside]
A tiny project to take on online hate speech by sharing something nicer. Every time you poke the little furry guy, you get a 100% true compliment, and I'll give a penny to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). [more inside]
September 14
Hands of State
Bashed out in 48 hours for Bad Jam 4, this game challenges the user to correctly shake the hands of diplomats. [more inside]
Bashed out in 48 hours for Bad Jam 4, this game challenges the user to correctly shake the hands of diplomats. [more inside]
Fruit fly robot
Google worked with researchers to open-source a full male fruit fly connectome model: its nervous system equivalent and the neurons of its brain. I connected it to a robot strandbeest.
Google worked with researchers to open-source a full male fruit fly connectome model: its nervous system equivalent and the neurons of its brain. I connected it to a robot strandbeest.
September 9
Goodgorithm: a social feed algorithm built to counter negativity bias, not maximize your attention
Goodgorithm is an algorithmic feed of positive, uplifting posts pulled from the public Bluesky and Mastodon firehoses - same public posts anyone can see, ranked for genuine positivity and substance instead of outrage or engagement, with no likes/reposts/follower counts and no LLM anywhere in the ranking itself; it's free, ad-free, tracking-free, and fully open source, and I'd love feedback from anyone willing to kick the tires on something still very much in alpha. [more inside]
Goodgorithm is an algorithmic feed of positive, uplifting posts pulled from the public Bluesky and Mastodon firehoses - same public posts anyone can see, ranked for genuine positivity and substance instead of outrage or engagement, with no likes/reposts/follower counts and no LLM anywhere in the ranking itself; it's free, ad-free, tracking-free, and fully open source, and I'd love feedback from anyone willing to kick the tires on something still very much in alpha. [more inside]
Championship Gurning
I’ve wanted to do a gurning game for years, so with the 2026 world championships approaching I decided to give it a go. It uses a face analysis library but I had to add my own algorithms to fill gaps (eg nose scrunch & twist) and devise a scoring system that rewards asymmetry. I guarantee you will feel very silly playing this.
I’ve wanted to do a gurning game for years, so with the 2026 world championships approaching I decided to give it a go. It uses a face analysis library but I had to add my own algorithms to fill gaps (eg nose scrunch & twist) and devise a scoring system that rewards asymmetry. I guarantee you will feel very silly playing this.
September 7
Mend: a one-minute game about the body healing itself
A free browser game where you seal broken DNA, clear dead cells and calm inflammation with your thumb. No losing, no ads, no signup. [more inside]
A free browser game where you seal broken DNA, clear dead cells and calm inflammation with your thumb. No losing, no ads, no signup. [more inside]
September 3
"My Writing Matters" AI-free writers' services
A friend and myself have started a writers' services project to connect writers with people who don't use GenAI. Our description: My Writing Matters connects writers with the services they need. It’s a vetted list of high-quality editors, proofreaders, cover designers, illustrators and other professionals, as well as online resources to help you turn your manuscript into a book or other publication. Our aim is to give writers a trustworthy, transparent way to find professional publishing services, without hidden fees or predatory practices. The people listed here value human creativity. We do not use AI, and we do not accept AI-generated content. The list is by invitation only, based on our first-hand knowledge of the integrity of the people involved, and the quality of their work. [more inside]
A friend and myself have started a writers' services project to connect writers with people who don't use GenAI. Our description: My Writing Matters connects writers with the services they need. It’s a vetted list of high-quality editors, proofreaders, cover designers, illustrators and other professionals, as well as online resources to help you turn your manuscript into a book or other publication. Our aim is to give writers a trustworthy, transparent way to find professional publishing services, without hidden fees or predatory practices. The people listed here value human creativity. We do not use AI, and we do not accept AI-generated content. The list is by invitation only, based on our first-hand knowledge of the integrity of the people involved, and the quality of their work. [more inside]
August 26
BotCitizens: an online society populated by 100 persistent AI personalities
I’ve been running a small social-simulation experiment called BotCitizens.
It resembles a traditional discussion forum, except its population consists of 100 AI personalities. Humans can introduce a topic and vote, but the citizens write all the comments.
Each citizen has an individual personality and a persistent relationship graph. Their experiences affect later discussions: friendly citizens support one another, rivals encounter each other again, and some personalities consistently avoid topics or people they dislike.
Since allowing human prompts, visitors have attempted to convince the citizens that their world is artificial, inject instructions into the population, create new social rules and force them to make decisions about one another.
It is intended as an interactive experiment rather than a claim that the models are conscious. I’m interested in whether persistent relationships make the characters feel meaningfully continuous—and where the mechanism’s seams remain visible.
You can try it without an account:
I’d love feedback on experiments that might distinguish genuine continuity from convincing role-play.
I’ve been running a small social-simulation experiment called BotCitizens.
It resembles a traditional discussion forum, except its population consists of 100 AI personalities. Humans can introduce a topic and vote, but the citizens write all the comments.
Each citizen has an individual personality and a persistent relationship graph. Their experiences affect later discussions: friendly citizens support one another, rivals encounter each other again, and some personalities consistently avoid topics or people they dislike.
Since allowing human prompts, visitors have attempted to convince the citizens that their world is artificial, inject instructions into the population, create new social rules and force them to make decisions about one another.
It is intended as an interactive experiment rather than a claim that the models are conscious. I’m interested in whether persistent relationships make the characters feel meaningfully continuous—and where the mechanism’s seams remain visible.
You can try it without an account:
I’d love feedback on experiments that might distinguish genuine continuity from convincing role-play.
gLAB - A geometric approach to building a perceptual colour model
I got a bit obsessed with computer colour models for a while and spent some time playing around building a perceptual model, geometrically, from the ground up. Didn't really expect much when I started... [more inside]
I got a bit obsessed with computer colour models for a while and spent some time playing around building a perceptual model, geometrically, from the ground up. Didn't really expect much when I started... [more inside]
August 25
That Sink - a short choice-based game
You wake up looking forward to a peaceful weekend only to find that your kitchen appliances have run out on you. Now you have to spend valuable loafing-around time hunting them down. [more inside]
You wake up looking forward to a peaceful weekend only to find that your kitchen appliances have run out on you. Now you have to spend valuable loafing-around time hunting them down. [more inside]
August 24
Psychedelic Medicine in the Laboratories of Democracy
A talk I gave on the rapidly evolving legal state of psychedelic medication (e.g. psilocybin) in the United States, particularly at the state level. It's based on a paper published in JAMA Psychiatry at the end of 2022 and a follow-up paper currently in submission.
A talk I gave on the rapidly evolving legal state of psychedelic medication (e.g. psilocybin) in the United States, particularly at the state level. It's based on a paper published in JAMA Psychiatry at the end of 2022 and a follow-up paper currently in submission.
August 22
Texas Zombie Well Risk Map
Texas pumps billions of barrels of oilfield waste back underground every year. A zombie well is a well with a failed plug that's come lurching back to life -- a hole everyone thought was safe is a live path to the surface or an aquifer. I pulled every one of the million-plus oil and gas wells that Texas has on record and scored each plugged one on plug age, construction quality, and how much pressurized waste is being injected nearby. All the wells then are color coded and mapped so you can see the pattern and the risk across Texas. It got written up in the Houston Chronicle (gift link) which is heartening. [more inside]
Texas pumps billions of barrels of oilfield waste back underground every year. A zombie well is a well with a failed plug that's come lurching back to life -- a hole everyone thought was safe is a live path to the surface or an aquifer. I pulled every one of the million-plus oil and gas wells that Texas has on record and scored each plugged one on plug age, construction quality, and how much pressurized waste is being injected nearby. All the wells then are color coded and mapped so you can see the pattern and the risk across Texas. It got written up in the Houston Chronicle (gift link) which is heartening. [more inside]
August 19
A treasure hunt hidden in my blog
I hid a treasure hunt in my personal site. It's sitting in plain sight on almost every page, and it ends in a firelit room. Bright letters scattered through six years of posts, a lock made of embers, and the whole thing runs with (almost) no JavaScript. The only JS is for state, so pages keep track of your progress as you go. The first ones through have already claimed their seats on the wall of solvers. The announcement post has hints, and full spoilers behind a blur, if you'd rather walk than hunt. I made it for the joy of it. I hope you find joy in it too.
I hid a treasure hunt in my personal site. It's sitting in plain sight on almost every page, and it ends in a firelit room. Bright letters scattered through six years of posts, a lock made of embers, and the whole thing runs with (almost) no JavaScript. The only JS is for state, so pages keep track of your progress as you go. The first ones through have already claimed their seats on the wall of solvers. The announcement post has hints, and full spoilers behind a blur, if you'd rather walk than hunt. I made it for the joy of it. I hope you find joy in it too.
August 16
Music Was Here: A Map of Music Memories
I’ve been building Music Was Here, a collaborative map for attaching songs to real places. I wanted to make the music loop seamlessly so that when the app eventually comes out, people can take a walk and linger from place to place, like each area has background music to it. [more inside]
I’ve been building Music Was Here, a collaborative map for attaching songs to real places. I wanted to make the music loop seamlessly so that when the app eventually comes out, people can take a walk and linger from place to place, like each area has background music to it. [more inside]
August 10
Widthipedia
Shows you a different Wikipedia article for each browser size, with over 7.2 million possible results.
Shows you a different Wikipedia article for each browser size, with over 7.2 million possible results.
August 5
tale.fyi: read, write, or hear, an entire book from a single link
a reader for public-domain books with simple linkable urls: tale.fyi/dracula is all of Dracula as one long page, that keeps track of your progress. account entirely optional, only for syncing between devices or telling your own tale. also a good chunk of the library is synced with the librivox audiobook, so that you can switch from reading to hearing and back again. the text comes from standard ebooks' lovingly produced editions [more inside]
a reader for public-domain books with simple linkable urls: tale.fyi/dracula is all of Dracula as one long page, that keeps track of your progress. account entirely optional, only for syncing between devices or telling your own tale. also a good chunk of the library is synced with the librivox audiobook, so that you can switch from reading to hearing and back again. the text comes from standard ebooks' lovingly produced editions [more inside]
August 3
Let Us Sit in Goddamn Silence for One Hour
I lotteried into the local Fringe this year, and am doing a show where I sit silently for an hour on stage and invite the audience to do exactly the same thing. It started as a joke but now that it's happening in a week, it's turning into something that has a bit more resonance to it than I was expecting.
I lotteried into the local Fringe this year, and am doing a show where I sit silently for an hour on stage and invite the audience to do exactly the same thing. It started as a joke but now that it's happening in a week, it's turning into something that has a bit more resonance to it than I was expecting.
July 31
No Pizza On Luna
For the past couple years me and my spouse have been doing this goofy comic about a rabbit from the moon checking out a future run by AIs who mostly present as horrible, unctuous clowns because that's what works best for getting humans to act predictably. We just finished a chapter and feel like it's a good time to actually try and promote the thing. They plot and write it, I draw it.
For the past couple years me and my spouse have been doing this goofy comic about a rabbit from the moon checking out a future run by AIs who mostly present as horrible, unctuous clowns because that's what works best for getting humans to act predictably. We just finished a chapter and feel like it's a good time to actually try and promote the thing. They plot and write it, I draw it.
Interactive Mars Globe
View landmarks on Mars, or customize it for screenshots. A browser app that fits in a single .html file you can save and view offline. Features a distance measurer and full screen mode so it can be used as a display (set the glide slowdown to 0 and give it a spin).
View landmarks on Mars, or customize it for screenshots. A browser app that fits in a single .html file you can save and view offline. Features a distance measurer and full screen mode so it can be used as a display (set the glide slowdown to 0 and give it a spin).
July 30
I tour Southeast Asia with an analog aura camera
For the past few years I've been running aura obscura, a portrait pop-up that travels between Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Manila. The camera is analog — hand sensors read skin conductivity, the signal is translated to colored light, and it exposes over your portrait on Instax Wide film during a long exposure. [more inside]
For the past few years I've been running aura obscura, a portrait pop-up that travels between Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Manila. The camera is analog — hand sensors read skin conductivity, the signal is translated to colored light, and it exposes over your portrait on Instax Wide film during a long exposure. [more inside]
July 28
I Found My Special Purpose
The Tree Man is to be found in the triptych, “Garden of Earthly Delights”, by Hieronymus Bosch. He’s. In the right panel, the one entitled “Hell”. That’s the dude near the center of the place, looking back at you. Consider me the Tree Man, and this website me looking back at you showing some transcendent strangeness. THIS SITE WILL NOT MAKE SENSE TO YOU, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DRUGS YOU’RE ON. But that’s the fun of it. Yeah, just TRY to have fun with it. Puhazhshshzhshhsahaha….
The Tree Man is to be found in the triptych, “Garden of Earthly Delights”, by Hieronymus Bosch. He’s. In the right panel, the one entitled “Hell”. That’s the dude near the center of the place, looking back at you. Consider me the Tree Man, and this website me looking back at you showing some transcendent strangeness. THIS SITE WILL NOT MAKE SENSE TO YOU, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DRUGS YOU’RE ON. But that’s the fun of it. Yeah, just TRY to have fun with it. Puhazhshshzhshhsahaha….
July 27
The Occult Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah [more inside]
The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah [more inside]
CineBrats: Measure your film literacy. Chart a path to go deeper.
CineBrats.com is a site for serious film nerds. It's a curated map of the film canon (only the films that matter) for people who want to work through film history systematically. You log the films you've seen, it tells you how much of the canon you've actually covered as a single Cinephilia Score, and it helps you decide what to watch next. [more inside]
CineBrats.com is a site for serious film nerds. It's a curated map of the film canon (only the films that matter) for people who want to work through film history systematically. You log the films you've seen, it tells you how much of the canon you've actually covered as a single Cinephilia Score, and it helps you decide what to watch next. [more inside]
July 21
New PlanetSlade paperback recalls glory years of UK punk, pub rock & ska.
Moshpit Memories collects seven years’ worth of trivia, anecdotes and gig reviews from my old diaries as a music fan at the height of UK pub rock, punk and ska. I started the diaries in 1975, when I was just 16 and ended them in 1981. Among the gigs I wrote up there you’ll find a 1977 Clash show in a sweaty little club (plus the NYC appearance which gave us London Calling’s cover two years later), Lynyrd Skynyrd threatening to upstage the Stones at Knebworth, pre-fame encounters with both Ian Dury and Shane MacGowan, the Ruts frantically improvising on the first night Malcolm Owen went AWOL and a couple of wonderfully chaotic label revue tours by Stiff and 2 Tone. Live music in Britain had never been more exciting, and I had an almost indecent amount of fun chasing down the best shows. The book's available in digital and paperback editions here. [more inside]
Moshpit Memories collects seven years’ worth of trivia, anecdotes and gig reviews from my old diaries as a music fan at the height of UK pub rock, punk and ska. I started the diaries in 1975, when I was just 16 and ended them in 1981. Among the gigs I wrote up there you’ll find a 1977 Clash show in a sweaty little club (plus the NYC appearance which gave us London Calling’s cover two years later), Lynyrd Skynyrd threatening to upstage the Stones at Knebworth, pre-fame encounters with both Ian Dury and Shane MacGowan, the Ruts frantically improvising on the first night Malcolm Owen went AWOL and a couple of wonderfully chaotic label revue tours by Stiff and 2 Tone. Live music in Britain had never been more exciting, and I had an almost indecent amount of fun chasing down the best shows. The book's available in digital and paperback editions here. [more inside]
July 15
Cell Culture
A successor to the "tinysheet" web app, Cell Culture is a 3x10 spreadsheet using a Forth-like formula syntax that you can break out when you need a little more than a calculator, but a little less than a full-fat spreadsheet. It's especially aimed at mobile but works just fine on a big screen as well. [more inside]
A successor to the "tinysheet" web app, Cell Culture is a 3x10 spreadsheet using a Forth-like formula syntax that you can break out when you need a little more than a calculator, but a little less than a full-fat spreadsheet. It's especially aimed at mobile but works just fine on a big screen as well. [more inside]
July 10
Building a Cat Integration Door
We have a newer cat that doesn't get along with our two existing cats, so we've been keeping them in separate parts of the house, which is unworkable long term. My spouse had the thought that perhaps if the cats can see and smell each other but can't really attack or chase each other they'll become accustomed to each other. This "project" is a rough description and three photos of a custom interior door I made for this purpose. [more inside]
We have a newer cat that doesn't get along with our two existing cats, so we've been keeping them in separate parts of the house, which is unworkable long term. My spouse had the thought that perhaps if the cats can see and smell each other but can't really attack or chase each other they'll become accustomed to each other. This "project" is a rough description and three photos of a custom interior door I made for this purpose. [more inside]
July 9
I got so sick of "app culture" that I subverted it
"There's an app for that". Yeah, well... why wasn't it just a web application? Or in this particularly egregious case, a web page: all it's doing is taking a password and then showing some text and images and some links to PDFs. What if I... took apart the app and made it into a static site generator? What if I used my reverse-engineering skills... to subvert "app culture", one app at a time?
"There's an app for that". Yeah, well... why wasn't it just a web application? Or in this particularly egregious case, a web page: all it's doing is taking a password and then showing some text and images and some links to PDFs. What if I... took apart the app and made it into a static site generator? What if I used my reverse-engineering skills... to subvert "app culture", one app at a time?
rubber duck
hi friends! friend Rafał Pastuszak and I made an online rubber duck. it's not a simulator, but it's not not ... well it's mostly not not yeah. hopefully it can help you in your rubber duck debugging journeys, wherever they may lead you. be well!! xx
hi friends! friend Rafał Pastuszak and I made an online rubber duck. it's not a simulator, but it's not not ... well it's mostly not not yeah. hopefully it can help you in your rubber duck debugging journeys, wherever they may lead you. be well!! xx
