I own this poster!

janitor theory: civilizations are kept alive by people nobody writes about.

Think about it like Balatro - a huge reason Balatro is so successful IMO is because it shows you the chain of interactions one at a time -- even if it does that REALLY REALLY FAST -- so you get to see the engine run.

when you are making a tool, workflow or pipeline, making it really really easy to do the right thing is roughly 10000x more important than making it possible to do complex things. Always fight to keep it easy to do the right thing as people ask for features to do more things

Ron, we’d clearly have *such* a good startup if someone would just send us to the beach (and grant us hereditary wealth)

it’s the phrase “select your experience” that truly galls

Direct File forever

This bird looks like it's going to say, "Please, detective, you have to understand I have no idea who killed my husband and I'm terribly sick about it"

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Wolf bites woman in a shopping area in Germany's 2nd-biggest city Authorities say a wolf has bitten a woman in a Hamburg shopping area, in what experts call Germany’s first known wild wolf attack on a person since 1998.

Come ON people!

“Wolf takes bite out of Hamburger” was RIGHT THERE

A college basketball coach made 418 mistakes his first year. He kept track of all of them (Gift Article) Thirteen years ago, Mike Neighbors dreamed up an idea to help others: He started writing down his mistakes.

Whether you're a coach or not, really enjoyed this one www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

Plain language lowers the cost of understanding. The clearest wording is almost always the correct choice.

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (Official Movie Trailer) YouTube video by owen reiser

Highly recommend this free YouTube doc. It’s weirdly hilarious, genuinely gripping, and somehow makes birding feel like a full-contact sport. Birders will love it and everyone else will be surprised they do too.

since we’re talking about Hugo nominations:

I don’t think Expedition 33 needs help to make it onto the ballots (but try it if you haven’t), but I want to suggest two indie detective games with a fantasy/supernatural bent that you can finish in a few hours: Type Help (free!) & Seance of Blake Manor

If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

my husband just said, “The Nets game was too depressing. Let’s watch Hamnet.”

I had to learn the phonetic alphabet in college, don’t tempt me with a good time

Counting the minutes til the inevitable super cut drops on Monday

there are infinite ways he can say Frankenstein

Matt Berry Should Go Full Matt Berry for the Oscars Today, the Academy announced its final lineup of presenters alongside one truly earth-shattering revelation: Comedian, actor, musician, and vocal maestro Matt Berry will be this year’s announcer.

Today, the Academy announced its final lineup of presenters alongside one truly earth-shattering revelation: Comedian, actor, musician, and vocal maestro Matt Berry will be this year’s announcer.

the other 364 are wario days

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

It’s begging to be the closing credits song for a quality romcom (complimentary)

You learned a skill: Mental Collapse

what is this from. I'm feeling it

The AFI Should Bring Back Its Top 100 Movies List It helped create the canon for a generation. Then it stopped.

I recently found myself thinking about the AFI Top 100, and what a huge impact it made on me, and wishing it had continued. Bring it back!

I also rewatched the original broadcast of the list and let me tell you: THAT is a DOCUMENT. You will not believe some of the faces that pop up in that thing.

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

just…

Status: Experimental We want to be clear: vinext is experimental. It's not even one week old, and it has not yet been battle-tested with any meaningful traffic at scale. [Next sentence highlighted] If you're evaluating it for a production application, proceed with appropriate caution. That said, the test suite is extensive: over 1,700 Vitest tests and 380 Playwright E2E tests, including tests ported directly from the Next.js test suite and OpenNext's Cloudflare conformance suite. We’ve verified it against the Next.js App Router Playground. Coverage sits at 94% of the Next.js 16 API surface. Early results from real-world customers are encouraging. We've been working with National Design Studio, a team that's aiming to modernize every government interface, on one of their beta sites, CIO.gov. [Underline starts] They're already running vinext in production [end underline] with meaningful improvements in build times and bundle sizes.

hmmmmm

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos