"I didn't have time to design a simple solution, so I designed a complicated one instead"

Thank you! it's so good.

@mierau.me ah it was on Posts.cv (RIP) Do you still have a copy of it? was wanting to reference it for some thinking / writing I'm doing on open source software design.

@mierau.me Hey Dustin, I was trying to track down a design you did a year or so back of what a refined version of BeOS/Haiku might look like. Do you still have that, or know where you originally posted it?

Photo of the book Could Should Might Don’t by Nick Foster

Halfway through this book and thoroughly enjoying it.

BOM reveals new website cost $96.5m, not $4.1m as first announced Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.

Turn out that was one expensive update ... $96M!? 😵‍💫
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

In a stroke of genius, my youngest son ate his brother's advent calendar chocolate and then blamed it on the Elf on the Shelf. His brother knows what's happened, but is unwilling to ruin the yearly Elf charade.

SEE IT! Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better - Streetsblog New York City One Brooklyn business has seen the future of safe streets and heavy lugging — and it's going to be O-KEI!

"For any local jobs, Robinson can easily transport his equipment in the back of the truck ... its bed is nearly the same size as that of a standard American pickup truck."

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/31/s...

The BOM got an update. Glad to see the work that went into the original beta finally make it to the main site. www.bom.gov.au

Apple’s AI deal with Google looking much better in the wake of the Gemini 3 release.

The Tahoe icon blur is really throwing off my "I don't need glasses yet" sentiment.

Hmm, yeah sticking with yellow 💛

I didn't realise I could change it! Still with yellow.

As a long time Reeder user, I was skeptical of the new feed approach at first. But I tried to go back to classic and can't.

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

Where It's at:// — overreacted From handles to hosting.

i wrote down the process of resolving an at:// URI step by step. turns out, it's a great way to learn how the AT protocol works!

Photo of the coast line

This coast ❤️

My instagram feed is now over 50% ads. There’s often 2 - sometimes 3 - ads in a row.

Thanks Dan, this was such a great write up. Curious if/how Chats (DMs) fit in here?

And that it's not consistently in the same place.

I chose gardening over coding today and feel better for it.

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Hearing Things Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.

You should check out www.hearingthings.co and rateyourmusic.com

Has anyone built an app to analyse who you’re following on socials? Would love to know, of the accounts I follow, who posts most or least (or at all).

Dyson Unveiled Global Premiere YouTube video by Dyson

Really enjoyed watching this. Some amazing product design.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG — kube.io Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.

This is one impressive visual guide to implementing the Liquid Glass effect

kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Later this year, we’ll unveil a whole new look for Hanami, Dry and Rom. Here’s a preview!

This will be a huge boost for our projects, I can already feel it.

Thank you to @aaronmoodie.com for bringing this to life! Also to @makenosound.bsky.social who’s already getting our new website into shape.

Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives i

Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects. “China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.” [kottke.org]

Speculative theory: Bluey is driving up property prices in Brisbane.

@craigmod.com enjoyed your piece on Literary Hub. Curious about what you use to take notes as you’re walking. Do you record audio and then convert to text, or dictate straight into Notes etc?