What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.

Shuhei "Shu" Yoshida is leaving PlayStation, and I hope we get to see some more of him somehow. One of the most generous and genuine people I have had the joy of working with over the past decade or so. So many incredible memories and stories.

blog.playstation.com/2024/11/26/a...

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

Tonight's random #bookshelf! This one is a bunch of mostly comic-related stuff that didn't fit elsewhere (or I did but I ran out of room).

wrote up a reply to @dustyweb.bsky.social's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post

I have always hated this diagram. Two reasons:

(1) It attempts to rename a concept that has already been established in academia: "distributed" computing is very often the figure (b),

(2) due to power law mechanics, (a) or (b) is almost always the case and I have never seen (c) in any network.

Pondering the future of Pixelmator by looking at the history of Apple's app acquisitions.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/apple_tends_to_do_right_by_apps_it_acquires

There's a lot of talk about how Trump's tariffs may help revive American manufacturing by encouraging consumers to buy American-made goods. If you believe this, I want to tell you a story. 🧵

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing.

I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft."

Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.