honestly just saving this one so that I can point to the phrase “tactical tornado” and have big, bad feelings about it

What I keep coming back to is McCarthy’s refusal to offer John Grady an easy out. He doesn’t get to be right and win. He doesn’t get to reject modernity and find some pastoral sanctuary where his skills still matter. He just gets to be good at something beautiful while the world moves on without him.There’s a question buried in that: what does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it’s dying?

a heavy-handed, but good piece about notifications as a design pattern

audio toy

a cogent exploration of relationships between israel, zionism, and judaism as framed through the cultural lens of Emmanuel Levinas

a collection of resources and reference material for ink

Tools and stuff for the interactive fiction scripting language, ink.

a nice overview of some ways to think in gleam

A tool for making web games into “apps” — likely wraps tauri or similar. Seems neat.

A way of modeling stat full time .