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I read a lot of books. I'm sure there's some Jane Austen quote about how it unsettles a young lady's mind to fill it with such wide-ranging nonsense, but I've not read any Austen this year 🤷

In total, I read 64 books. I strictly alternate between fact and…

I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto.

A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever.

The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed…

• Email: Fastmail
• Calendar: Fastmail and Google Calendar
• Notes: Obsidian and Google Keep
• To-do Lists: Obsidian
• Terminal: Warp
• Browser: Vivaldi
• Search Engine: Kagi
• Text Editor: VS Codium
• Passwords: Vaultwarden
• File Sharing: Fastmail
• Photos: Google Photos and Ente Photos
• 2FA: Ente…

During November, the gaming section was filled with ongoing games for some reason. There were so many that my friend Wouter pointed it out to me, surely his backlog is less than mine right?

Anyway, I decided to share an updated list of every game I played, even if only…

I have been thinking about redesigning my website for a while. I wrote a bit about one of the design directions I explored recently. I loved doing the design part of the project, but knew there would be several hours of work to integrate the new style into my website.

This week I'm re-launching my links digest. Every Friday, I'll share a handful of pieces that caught my eye, usually somewhere in the messy, fascinating overlap of technology, media, and society. Occasionally, I'll stray further afield.

This week: what might come after the AI hype cycle, how new community platforms…

linkding is one of my favorite applications that I self-host and the place where I save everything I want to read later. The catch being that what little time I can dedicate to actually reading is spent on books. What I do have is time where I can listen to…

[Humeyra Pamuk for Reuters]

The US has taken the extraordinary move of blocking H-1B visa recipients who work to keep online spaces safe from abuse:

“The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants…

When I was on The Pen Addict a few weeks ago, I mentioned I was looking for the hottest pink ink the world has to offer to go with my Estie Funky Town. I got loads of suggestions and I eventually stumbled on an ink that I think is…

If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress.

The modern web isn't like that.