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A dollar today buys more than twice the Japanese Yen than 15 years ago. No wonder Americans are visiting Japan again.

“The code is ... interesting. Looks like it was made by wolf children.“

If someone offers you a bit of kouign amann (pronounced QUEEN ah-MAHN) do not hesitate to try it

Ran some analytics over my downloaded Spotify data. In 15 years I’ve logged 112,576 plays (~3,464 hours) across 6,345 different artists. My ten most-played artists are just 5% of all plays. I add roughly 351–727 new artists a year (usually 10-12 a week.)

Another album passed the dozen listens milestone “When Ulrika Spacek released their debut record The Album Paranoia in 2016, there was no reason to believe the band was capable of far more than the psych rock sound that had made them popular in the London scene. What a difference a decade makes […]

When a magazine has a “listen to this article” but it’s just machine generated text-to-speech, what’s the point? I wanted to hear someone read aloud, not machine extruded mouth noises.

this aged well (from July last year)

I have a handful of CDs I keep out because I keep listening to them over the years. One is Bulkhead, a Severed Heads collection. Found a nice overview of their oeuvre from Trouser Press, which helps orient my scattered recollection of their various releases over the years. “This cheerfully […]

Long, detailed, interesting summary of the developing story about Apple using OpenAI. https://mashable.com/life/apple-openai-lawsuit-allegations

8 things to know about Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAIApple lawsuit against Sam Altman's OpenAI explained, including trade secret theft, former employees, AI hardware, and supplier claims.mashable.com

Happy free small Slurpee while supplies last day to all who observe.

Is there a more delightful sound when working from home than a bird using the birdbath in your backyard?

Nike stopped making Nike Free Flyknit, the most perfect footwear ever, so I’m still wearing these to work 11 years later

Listening to The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. My first thought was, “huh, a lot of people are murdered in this book.” Well hello please read the title again. My second thought was “this plot is complicated, I better look up some details.” https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593216071-the-big-sleep

If you’re on the beta for macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, you were offered a THIRD build even though you “already have” 15.7.8 installed. That’s how betas work: you get “release candidate” builds before the actual release. Surprise! […]

12:34:56 7/8 to celebrate

We’d read part of the cliff over Steamer Lane had fallen into the ocean, so we drove over the hill to Santa Cruz last weekend to check it out.

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Some political genius dismissively saying “that would take a constitutional amendment, good luck with that!” My dude, there’s 27 constitutional amendments already. If anything, we’re overdue for a couple more. Dream big.

Someone at work mentioned a project having a “shape” and my ears perked up because that feels like coding agents are affecting how we talk about building software now.

Nice afternoon in Santa Cruz, as seen from Humble Sea on the wharf. Cool, breezy, warm sunshine.

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I live in Sunnyvale, California but use a Santa Clara County library card for ebooks. Next time I’m in Los Angeles I’ll pick up a library card: LAPL has one of the largest OverDrive collections in the country: 736,458 items (548,549 ebooks, 181,650 audiobooks, 6,259 magazines.) And it’s free for […]