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Jeff Atwood sharing an email response to his piece on not being able to vibe code love, asserts some wisdom:

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Perhaps the LLMs are a reminder that we should make an extra effort to cultivate relationships with each other and form communities online – communities that belong to us, not some billionaire. Communities where we regularly stop to help each other, because that’s how we learn too. And if we do not stop to help each other… what do we become?

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I personally decided to stop cross-posting my blog to Threads, and now it only copies itself to Mastodon and Bluesky, two federated platforms uninterested...

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@lmika love that film. I picked up a 4k disc of it not too long ago, and this is a good reminder to get that thing going. Still amazed at the design foresight in the tablets they use — iPads all the way.

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Neat new writing software NEO from the author Hugh Howey (Wool/Silo trilogy). His philosophy of hitting ‘Enter’ to move through text context formatting is super simple:

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Hit ENTER once for a new paragraph. Hit it again for a new section break. A third ENTER gets you a new chapter.

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Heard about Andrew W.K.’s new album (allegedly we’re calling this jazz-noir) in, of all places, a marketing email from Blackwing. Darcy Smyth describes it perfectly:

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This is lounge music for a room that might not exist, all smoke and red curtains, the kind of piano that sounds like it’s remembering something it can’t quite say. Total Twin Peaks Roadhouse energy, like Lynch left the lights on and wandered off.

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Been in rotation for days now.

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✱ Reading is Important: defiantsloth.com

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Nice episode of the Version History podcast, with a focus on The Oregon Trail videogame (from which I learned started as a text adventure game first). It was fun playing this at school growing up. I have no idea if they do anything like this in school these days, but it felt educational back then.

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This candy store in Jordan, MN (allegedly the largest in the state, no way I’d argue against it), was a roadside spectacle. What’s in the dome? You could never guess.

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The fusion of some of my favorite things: typography and Super Metroid. Incredible find by Marcin Wichary, in a topical piece on the challenges of fully justified text columns.

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(A mad genius wrote a 17k word guide to the game by simply selecting the right words to be perfectly justified on-page.)

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Really appreciate Cyan doing another print run of their Myst trilogy. Without hesitation, I’ll be backing this.

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A 45.7 percent jump in CD sales (year over year) joins the chorus of streaming backlash — the revenge of physical media continues.

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@tracydurnell Love your effort to reimagine a dish from a memory. Had the same inkling for a place we had breakfast at in Oregon (farm B&B), and the preparation has haunted my appetite ever since. Good luck to you!

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Our outings to the MN State Fair were more subdued this year, but still great food at the classic spots (Baba and Midway Men’s Club forever), and this piece in the Fine Arts building really stuck with me.

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@racketmn.com These rule.

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The Fair opens today, and so it’s only right to link to an article about the Giant Slide’s family legacy. It also has their lemonade recipe, with the secret ingredient (the “entire lemon, rind and all”), which is used at their Fresh Lemonade stand on the west side of Nelson Street at Dan Patch Ave.

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Clouds, mushrooms, trees. Vantage point: biking.

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@rscottjones this looks like it was an incredible trip, right balance of variety. Glad you were able to make it. Also been digging your Adventures Around the World blog. Love a good travel log.

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@czottmann thanks for this.

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@jimmitchell this is a great find. I remember the flying toasters!

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Incredible growth story for a once-beleaguered toy maker: Lego has seen a 10× increase in revenues over the past 20 years, amid growing changes in its core customers’ attentions (obviously: screens).

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While I don’t get the new Lego floral arrangements, it’s good to see physical toys still sell well.

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A lot of these cukes just hanging over the edge, hiding in plain site.

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@gregmoore This is a nice shot! The horizon line of the Great Lakes and sky meeting is always awesome. I see you’re reading Pattern Recognition — how is it? Been thinking about digging into some Gibson after I’m done sifting through a few 1800s novels.

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Ah, a nice morning run around the lake, with a beach stop through the woods before wrapping up. I like to do this pitstop on occasion, as the wooded area offers a welcome sound bath before grinding back into the work day in front of a screen.

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@manton Thank you for sweating the details. This is great.

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The idea of over-optimized everyday life and business, in all facets, has been banging around in my head for years. Fortunately, Daniel Frank put it into words with fifteen theses on what’s going on. Just about every point is quotable.

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Another reason I don’t want to “upgrade” to fully unlimited Internet data on Comcast by using their router and modem system: they’re remote-activating motion sensing inside of the homes that have their devices. And yes, they cap you at 1.2TB/month if you bring your own system.

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@patrickrhone Indeed, this would be great.

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Minnesota Reformer posted a retelling of events during Operation Metro Surge (earlier this year) from the experience of Nazra Ahmed, a home care worker and member of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa.

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The only way you can win, with the cowards, is by showing them strength

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In a thoroughly documented post on building the music app of his dream, Jon Hicks has a well-appointed vision in Jacket. He’s upfront about it being built with Claude, and adamant it’s “just for him”, but it looks like a viable product. I like the approach, especially the discovery and listen later features,...

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Still thinking about this… watched Resurrection a few months ago, and have been meaning to re-watch Holy Motors. As these churn over in my memory, they feel like cinematic siblings.

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Also, that last act of Resurrection is in my permanent memory. So beautiful.

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Love to see a turnout record for the Minnesota primaries yesterday (1.1 million), about a quarter of eligible voters in the state.

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There also seems to be a collective reckoning that primary polls are terrible.

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Neon lighting. We all love it. WSJ with a nice dive into maintaining the format, and reformulating an historically terminated (due to cost effectiveness) color of neon, cyan green. Nice cinematic call-outs to Casablanca and Eyes Wide Shut, too.

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[Photo mine, unrelated; gift link URL]

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Ben Thompson and John Gruber discuss immersive sports on the latest Dithering, and I couldn’t agree more: Apple should just try setting up spatial recording in a courtside and/or elite seats in a sports arena for Apple Vision to see if it’s a better experience than the current “broadcast version”.

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Keep it coming: the video store resurrection continues.

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Damn this is spot on.\nIt’s a long read and you’ll get the gist a fifth of the way through, but Aeon has a highly astute take down of the technocrats’ misinterpretation of our literary science fiction past, darkly reflecting on their actions and ambitions.

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@ericmwalk Thanks, it was a nice one. The mountains are spectacular, but nothing beats a midwest summer. Hope you’re having a good one.

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@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social This is a hell of a set of favorites from this century. I appreciate your selections.

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@amesville.bsky.social It’s the best! The deep customization of the UI makes it worth using over anything else.

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@gameism.bsky.social Agreed. Subscribing is the answer. Long time enthusiast and subscriber to journalism publications, but I feel the pain of digital paywalls for accessing information. There hasn’t been a better solution, and the advertising “ecosystem” these publications tried hasn’t fully solved for funding either.

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@gameism.bsky.social Oh man, sorry about that. I should have gift linked this. The paywall UI is so depressing on these sites, and the hostility towards simply reading articles is beyond irony.

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For anyone else: www.wsj.com/business/whi…

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@yesplz.coffee 😆 can we just stick to the standards

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@defiantsloth.bsky.social Kudos on the great work, honestly! Cheers.

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@SimonPeng this is a nice piece! Also love the Wipeout franchise shout out. One of a few great games that do incredible logo work and graphic design in-game.

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@braindump This was a good one. I love a thoughtful re-exploration of a classic novel from a new author/perspective, but hammering home some modernity to the work (not that we necessarily need it for 1984…). James (Percival Everett) was another good one.

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@scripting.com It’s epic. Thank you for calling attention to this admittedly important matter.

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@patrickrhone Appreciate your words and trying to contextualize what’s happening here for others to see. It’s been (until just recently) difficult to see how much is being seen and recognized of the extraordinary resilience and support Minnesotans have been shepherding with our communities.

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@bnmnetp kudos to your daughter. It was an incredible day — so many people made a stand by. We lit the torch for the rest of the country.

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@miljko yes please! I was so disappointed season 2 didn’t get greenlit. Maybe they need to resort to crowdfunding? Adjacently, have you seen Common Side Effects? On HBO Max, from the same showrunners, also tremendous.

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@ericmwalk Thanks for getting back to me. Just took a nice deep dive into YakTrax — seems like a solid contingency plan to have these when in doubt. Happy winter running!

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@ericmwalk Any advice on running these types of trails? Just moved out to the western burbs this summer, and have been running for a few years but not outside during winter. So many good parks around here, I’d love to try but dread the ice…

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@miljko Love the retrospective reading you’re doing. Good recommendation on re-reading Breakfast of Champions, too! Vonnegut is hilarious.

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I’ve started rewatching old favorite films from my early exploration of cinema in a similar way, but your post is a great reminder to revisit books that resonated well at a younger age and evaluate how a reading now hits differently.

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