This is delightful.

I love giving life to old computers. Over the weekend, I got my son a used M1 Macbook Air and so a 2014 intel based 13" Macbook Pro that was flashed with Chrome OS Flex became available to tinker. I immediately got started setting up omarchy on it. Honestly, it's been a lot of fun setting it up. There are many things I don't like about DHH. However, we do share some similar sentiments and I guess tastes around how to setup a linux distro. I've been tinkering with linux distros since 2002 when I got my very first computer.

Al Dante

“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I'm shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work. ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers - Stephanie Stimac's Blog I shed a tear. The announcement of atlas is done by people I worked with and respect a lot - Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher.

and i learned about micellar water

One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us. I can go into its causes by pointing to evolutionary psychology and our hunter-gatherer roots, but that’s neither novel nor interesting. Rather, I want to delve into the asymmetry between what we know about ourselves, and the uncertainty surrounding what others know of us.

The entire vibe of this is just delightful. I don't think a product has made me feel this way in a long time. I want this.

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the complaint. Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI | The Verge 🍿

this really is getting good and I particularly appreciate that it's all tied to one subscription. one of the things I learned from Amazon prime is that the more you keep adding value, the lower your churn rate is going to be. makes me quite bullish on openai tbh.

and everyone wants to kill the web. fwiw, this is the same impetus that facebook also had when they introduced their own browser - yeah you can follow a link _outside_, but you still have to stay within the app. engagement "maxxing" only ends one way because it starts from a zero-sum model of the internet.

Indonesia tops the global ranking with over 11,000 merchant ships — a reflection of its massive archipelago, large domestic economy, and laws requiring ships in its waters to fly the Indonesian flag.Panama is the world’s 3rd largest ship registry — thanks to its open ‘flag of convenience’ system, which allows global shipowners to register their vessels under Panama’s flag.

I was today years old when I realized I didn't know how an anchor actually works.

If your Tahoe mac is causing a system wide lag, there's a known issue with Electron and Mac OS Tahoe. By now a lot of the usual suspects have issued a fix - However, a big hold up still seems to be Cursor. Here's a script you can run to detect which apps in your system still has an issue: …

I've always had a soft spot for capturing 'the moment.' This year's "pure street photography awards" are just delightful. Take a look at their finalists page if you find joy in these kinda photos too.

I don’t know. I am both a user of passkeys and generally wary of making myself overly dependent on tech giants and complex solutions. I’m noticing an increased reliance and potential loss of access to my own data. This does abstractly concern me. Not to the degree that it changes anything I’m doing, but still. As annoying as managing usernames and passwords was, I don’t think I have ever spent so much time authenticating on a daily basis.

There’s something kind of cruel about the way wisdom works. It refuses to arrive during the easy seasons, when we have space to receive it gracefully. Instead, it waits. It lurks in the margins of our carefully constructed lives, patient as winter, until the moment when everything we thought we knew begins to fracture—and then, only then, does it step forward with its terrible gifts.

Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world,” 

whoever said "puns are a lower form of wit" has not spent enough time appreciating the fluidity of language

The front wing is a new package, described by the team as featuring “locally increased cambers to extract more load”. It’s difficult to pick up those subtle profile changes, but what is very clear is that Red Bull has moved the two slot gap separators that I have highlighted with the red ellipses further outboard....The rear flap trailing edge trim line, highlighted in green, is from the same family as it was at Zandvoort, Monza and Baku.

I understand the impulse. Exercise sucks. Who doesn’t want a pat on the head for doing the Hard Thing? Trust me. I’ve turned heads in public for letting out a string of expletives whenever a smartwatch fails to correctly log a five-mile test run. Are you kidding me, I have to do it again?! What do you mean this walk didn’t contribute to closing my Exercise ring?

audacity is an incredible case of thoughtful, considered redesign and modernization. this (long) video also gives a wonderful view into the really hard problems around massive scale product development. honestly, it was delightful!

The new approach to window management looks excellent. The (predicted) ability to be able to record podcast interviews on it looks like it could really free me up to record from remote locations. iPadOS excitement - MacPsych dot blog Look, that windows can exist without getting kicked out and there are no more limits to the number of apps that are open is all great.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche There are so many things that I wish I'd learned sooner in my life. During the quarter life crises - the stage where you move from the gumption of teenage to the first hit of life as an adult - you ask the question - "what's the purpose of life?"

"Stress is doing something you don't care about, with time that you do." - Anon