Daniel McLaury
@danielmclaury.bsky.social
"If a gadget has a part that is frequently broken by users fidgeting with it, provide a harmless part that is a more attractive option to fidget with."
Is this a known design principle?
Is this a known design principle?
January 21, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"If a gadget has a part that is frequently broken by users fidgeting with it, provide a harmless part that is a more attractive option to fidget with."
Is this a known design principle?
Is this a known design principle?
There are two equally-good moves here. Find the funnier one. (White to move.)
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 AM
There are two equally-good moves here. Find the funnier one. (White to move.)
Most recent movies I've seen, to the best of my recollection, that engage with Christianity in America as something that exists in characters' lives:
1. Wake Up, Dead Man (2025)
2. Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
3. The Apostle (1997)
Anything past this is probably from the 1960s?
1. Wake Up, Dead Man (2025)
2. Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
3. The Apostle (1997)
Anything past this is probably from the 1960s?
January 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Most recent movies I've seen, to the best of my recollection, that engage with Christianity in America as something that exists in characters' lives:
1. Wake Up, Dead Man (2025)
2. Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
3. The Apostle (1997)
Anything past this is probably from the 1960s?
1. Wake Up, Dead Man (2025)
2. Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
3. The Apostle (1997)
Anything past this is probably from the 1960s?
My wife wouldn't let me send this surreal, #twinpeaks inspired Christmas card to our friends and family, so I'm sharing it with you all instead.
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My wife wouldn't let me send this surreal, #twinpeaks inspired Christmas card to our friends and family, so I'm sharing it with you all instead.
Micro-review of No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다):
A perfect film, but judging from what I heard in the lobby afterwards a lot of the audience didn't get it.
A perfect film, but judging from what I heard in the lobby afterwards a lot of the audience didn't get it.
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Micro-review of No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다):
A perfect film, but judging from what I heard in the lobby afterwards a lot of the audience didn't get it.
A perfect film, but judging from what I heard in the lobby afterwards a lot of the audience didn't get it.
Micro-review of "Wake Up, Dead Man"
Like everything with Rian Johnson: good concept, highly uneven execution.
Like everything with Rian Johnson: good concept, highly uneven execution.
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Micro-review of "Wake Up, Dead Man"
Like everything with Rian Johnson: good concept, highly uneven execution.
Like everything with Rian Johnson: good concept, highly uneven execution.
Watching someone play a game over their shoulder is a way better ad for a game than the opening cinematic. That's why streamers are a thing. And yet every game trailer buries the gameplay. Why?
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Watching someone play a game over their shoulder is a way better ad for a game than the opening cinematic. That's why streamers are a thing. And yet every game trailer buries the gameplay. Why?
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
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Pentiment's game mechanics are amazing, but the actual game doesn't work that well because they didn't get the pacing right -- you're constantly breaking immersion to check the glossary, and the "walking simulator" sections don't really work because the layout is so complex you get lost.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Pentiment's game mechanics are amazing, but the actual game doesn't work that well because they didn't get the pacing right -- you're constantly breaking immersion to check the glossary, and the "walking simulator" sections don't really work because the layout is so complex you get lost.
Merry Christmas from Peach, who I fear I've inadvertently made into a mall rat.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Merry Christmas from Peach, who I fear I've inadvertently made into a mall rat.
First impression of Mid-Century Modern:
* Nathan Lane makes a serviceable replacement for Bea Arthur
* Matt Bomer will never be Betty White
* Writing is hit or miss, like someone is making them cram in random topical references
* Is this literally the same set from Golden Girls?
* Nathan Lane makes a serviceable replacement for Bea Arthur
* Matt Bomer will never be Betty White
* Writing is hit or miss, like someone is making them cram in random topical references
* Is this literally the same set from Golden Girls?
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
First impression of Mid-Century Modern:
* Nathan Lane makes a serviceable replacement for Bea Arthur
* Matt Bomer will never be Betty White
* Writing is hit or miss, like someone is making them cram in random topical references
* Is this literally the same set from Golden Girls?
* Nathan Lane makes a serviceable replacement for Bea Arthur
* Matt Bomer will never be Betty White
* Writing is hit or miss, like someone is making them cram in random topical references
* Is this literally the same set from Golden Girls?
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
Concept: a concert band that's just the wrong version of every instrument. Slide trumpet, valve trombone, mellophone, sousaphone, xaphoon, bass oboe, etc.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Concept: a concert band that's just the wrong version of every instrument. Slide trumpet, valve trombone, mellophone, sousaphone, xaphoon, bass oboe, etc.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Hit an interesting vulnerability I've never heard of.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hit an interesting vulnerability I've never heard of.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Direct from the federal government: the next time you see someone pepper-spraying children, we are safe to conclude that they are NOT actual law enforcement and respond accordingly.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Direct from the federal government: the next time you see someone pepper-spraying children, we are safe to conclude that they are NOT actual law enforcement and respond accordingly.
Amazing how all the alarmist things the Christian right warned about are coming true, but they're the one doing it.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Amazing how all the alarmist things the Christian right warned about are coming true, but they're the one doing it.
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The verdict comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge to the city. n.pr/47rmYsS
Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The verdict comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge to the city. n.pr/47rmYsS
Me: [Shows up with a roll of film containing selfies of a teenager, followed by shots from several angles of what is clearly the rotting corpse of the same person]
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Me: [Shows up with a roll of film containing selfies of a teenager, followed by shots from several angles of what is clearly the rotting corpse of the same person]
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch