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PG: Psycho Goreman
This could be described as an elongated and inverted Power Rangers special, where the kids are bad and the parents ar...
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Cléo from 5 to 7
So much of the film is perfect alignment or beautiful discord. She descends the staircase on footsteps in perfect rhy...
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Roast Notes: Tanzania from Printer's Row
I’m very lucky that the closest coffee roastery to me specializes in light roasts, my favorites. I know Printer’s Row...
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One Spoon of Chocolate
...and one spoon of lemon, and one spoon of oregano, and one spoon of cayenne, and one spoon of...
This film had so m...
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Roast Notes: Fishtown by La Colombe
I don’t usually buy from La Colombe, but we were killing time before our favorite fish taco place opened up and I tho...
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Cure
I was mostly bored by this film. The antagonist is supposed to be a fearsome void, but I was mostly annoyed with his ...
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Three LLM Agents for My Knowledge Garden
I built three AI agents that tend my knowledge garden in different ways: one walks in front, one walks behind, and one walks beside me.
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Sunset Boulevard
It's amazing to watch a silent-film star - who shaped her life and manner into eccentricities, conveying everythi...
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Civil War
Jesse Plemons is consistently terrifying because he has perfected the portrayal of our time's most fearsome perso...
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I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try by Joshua Idehen
I found this album through Fluxblog’s mention of it...
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Dogtooth
I watched this while feeding my infant daughter and reflected on how many lies I’ve already told her.
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Madame Web
Maybe this movie is intentionally unintelligible. Maybe the cliches are perfectly chosen and not ineptly plopped on a...
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README, Don't AGENTS.md Me
This is the place where I rant that theAGENTS.md pattern is a distraction and slows down your software development.
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LCD Soundsystem at Aragon in 2026
I’ve seen LCDS many times before (previously), but not as many as my friend Ned. It’s a wonderful experience going to...
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Trust But Verify
I’ve been a huge fan of webcomic name for years. Every comic ends with “oh no”. Perfect.
This one popped into my hea...
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ComEd Hourly Pricing as Calendar Events
I built an iCal feed of ComEd electricity price changes so I can plan around cheap hours from my calendar.
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Music Frozen Dancing 2026
Of course we went to Music Frozen Dancing again this year. And this time we got a spot near the front so we could get...
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Possessor
I can see this as the stepping stone to Infinity Pool that this would become.
Like Infinity Pool, this perfectly bal...
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Meditation: Navigating Change
I had used Headspace for guided meditation in the past, but this week my health insurer sent me a notification that t...
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Le Samouraï
This review may contain spoilers.
If you spend your days planning the perfect way to kill others, of course you want ...
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Divvy 2025 in Review
Last week I opened the Divvy (bikeshare system for Chicago) app and they prompted me with a 2025 year-in-review. Stra...
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Trying Currents
Today I’m trying Current, the new RSS feed reader app by Terry Godier (beautiful announcement and explainer post ther...
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The Conversation
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I, too, have been an editor that thought themself a genius, discovering the perfect...
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My Entire Blog History as Calendar Events
I built a Jekyll plugin that generates iCal feeds so I can see my entire posting history in my calendar.
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Weval at Outset
This show was so much better than I had expected!
Weval played heavier house music than you would have thought based...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
With our one month-old in a stroller, we entered the elevator behind a woman carrying a potted flower and groceries. ...
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
There are always so many things to say about a really good film.
I haven’t felt so teeteringly sick with gory terror...
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Search Engine Tooling
When I first started as a software engineer, I was a search engine optimization expert. I do not remember those pract...
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
The Fela Kuti: Fear No Man podcast from Jad Abumrad was a beautiful series I listened to while shoveling snow and lif...
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It's Still Very Cold Here