Links to cool stuff I’ve read. Updated whenever I remember to. Subscribe to the feed for updates.
- December 5, 2025 Bookmark: How Websites Die
the reality is that making things last on the web is hard because the web was not made to build things that last. Trying to keep websites around forever is struggling against the nature of the web.
- November 27, 2025 Bookmark: Do we need LEDs on everything?
I like things as dark as possible at night, so the ubiquity of LEDs in various and sundry devices has also annoyed me. Fortunately, this happens to be one of the more solvable problems with modern electronics with the help of a roll of black electrical tape.
- November 10, 2025 Bookmark: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Fifty years ago today.
- October 25, 2025 Bookmark: Use plain text email
Most of the emails I’ve gotten from actual people have been plain text. Just saying.
- October 11, 2025 Bookmark: A Theory on Why Contact Forms Get More Spam Than Email Addresses
Both this post and the post linked in it ring true to me. I used to have a contact form. I took it down because I was getting a lot of spam and not much else. I have my email address up now and that hardly gets any spam.
- October 1, 2025 Bookmark: It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to.
A beautiful vision of what social networks could be…
- September 20, 2025 Bookmark: Take more photos. Make better memories.
I’m not a professional photographer. I’m barely a hobbyist. My advice is aimed at those who wish they had taken more photos but don’t.
Hey, that sounds a lot like me.