integrating ideas and examples I developed for an essay as part of a talk

what if you could navigate unicode characters by visual similarity?

frustrated, you leave twitter and turn on MSNBC. but 80% of its programming is now about big pants. so you open the new york times and it too is just about how you should wear big pants. you watch the new paramount film and every character is wearing the biggest pair of pants you've ever seen

tell me your grocery chain has KPIs for AI integration without telling me

also made a little loop of the new logo even though it's not new. i just really like it :)

and I've added the custom wiggly visualizer to both sites now (afk.show)

for the subscribe menus, I'm using variable type for a neat hover effect

taking the time to isolate a few details from the work I've done on the DN and AFK sites recently.

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

screenshot: THE BOOK WAS DRENCHED

obsessed with this apparent note at the start of a book I found on archive.org

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

I wonder if trees post memes on the mycelium network

Using "putting the genie back in the bottle" as an explanation for why something's inevitable is so funny to me because isn't the bottle their house

I am no longer certain my tamagotchi isn't conscious

Two people walking in a snowy landscape, the horizon obscured by fog

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here's what I mean with the list: inspired by material expressive lists, the shape treatment suggests one list rather than a series of discrete cards.

wait, I almost forgot! the site now has picture-in-picture support (on Chrome at least) so when you navigate away from the tab you can still control the audio!

Update: The wavy audio player's amplitude now responds to the audio being played. Also moved all platform/share links into the radio button, and updated how episode cards are shown so they look more like a connected list :)

not sure exactly how to explain this but I think the narrative of ai hype is rhetorically like the shepard tone.

bug fixes and improvements

bug fixes and improvements

playing with a wavy audio player on the DN site :)
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just one more layer of abstraction bro I swear one more layer of abstraction will make it work

what you want is an MCP. oh wait have you tried installing a skill? no you don't have an agents,md file. actually what you want is a plugin. have you tried agent orchestration? you have gotta try hooks.

putting up some new work today 🧑‍🎨

I would read (and probably reply with) that blog post!

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