I had a FW 16 preorder and decided to get a 13 because it wouldn't be out for almost a year. Pretty much immediately cancelled my 16 preorder, it's great. I think the perfect combo is a 13" and an external monitor!

I've also been doing a lot of customizing and "ricing" my main Linux machine this week and haven't been loving any of the common dev color palettes out there. Beth's article hit me like a sack of bricks later and a few late hours later I introduce....

Birren!!
merriman.industries/birren-indus...

This feels significant. After the feed algorithms have done so much cultural damage over the last decade the possibility that writing and deploying an algorithm is now so democratized could be important. Not sure if you dabble in tech blogs but I'd love a write up on this!

Everyone says this like it's a dunk but the alternative is an MCU franchise that was built around toys, merchandising, virality, spin-offs, reaction videos, theme parks, tie-ins, etc. Not sure "kids don't wear avatar T-shirts" is the diss you think it is.

Been thinking about this for a few days. First is I'm not used to it yet 🙁 But more importantly I don't think the tech-right are republicans. They're a different weird third thing that were/are aligned with the GOP. It may be pedantic but I suspect this difference will be important in a few years.

Photographing with both film and digital led to the illuminating realization that the real world is *really* high resolution.

After almost a decade in the auto engineering field, he's spot on. Automotive combines a massive R&D spend with a commodity priced product. It's unlike most tech businesses yet it's what they're all approaching. On the long timeline this is what the smartphone biz looks like.

Update: I've switched Zed to Helix keybindings.

That got out of hand fast.

I'm also bringing in Yazi for file management:
yazi-rs.github.io

And of course the old stalwart, Bacon!
dystroy.org/bacon/

Halloween but only if you're in a small town in New England

I'm going through the tutorial for the third time in 1.5 years but I swear I'm actually gonna do a project with it this time

Creating word clouds of slang from each era then embedding their meanings in a vector space would be a really interesting way to visualize and contextualize the ephemeral priorities of a moment in time.