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Definitions
“Influencer” and “creator”: I figured them out!
June 2022
Defending inflation
Somebody’s got to do it
May 2021
Reading Frank’s Corpus
An uncommonly interesting piece of writing
March 2021
Advice for newsletter-ers
A tiny bit of forethought, some cautionary design
November 2020
Orthographic media
A view without perspective
August 2020
Two nice databases for Ruby
YAML::Store and Daybreak: both underrated!
May 2020
Chasing a ghost
What causes this particular vintage optical printing effect?
April 2020
An integration loop
Its origin is a mystery. All we know is how it sounds: stately and nostalgic
March 2020
The thing about blogging is
you can just write about the things you love
March 2020
Reframing inflation
People need money; let’s exorcise the ghost of the 1970s
March 2020
Notes from a week
I never imagined a world without cafés
March 2020
Writing and lightness
Every way of writing can work, and every reason for writing can work
March 2020
But/and
An essential new conjunction
February 2020
Fortnite pastoral
They rebooted the world
October 2019
Don’t take the money
Boom, bap
August 2019
News from the Republic
A map of a small town; a collection of great newsletters
June 2019
Notes from the quest factory
Tools and techniques related to AI text generation. I wrote this for like twelve people
June 2019
Reckoning with Detective Comics
I want to talk about a creative act of reckoning and, maybe, redemption
January 2019
Voyages in sentence space
A new machine learning project
March 2018
How to think (dangerously)
Describing a standard
October 2017
Writing with the machine
It’s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder
May 2016
How to end on the internet
All the conventions of print feel false: the neat summary, the mild prediction, the kicker quote
April 2016
Shmuplations across space and time
Translations across languages and through decades
February 2016
The Decagon House Murders
This was a weird one. I loved it
January 2016
Alien signals
Memories of long-ago Sunday nights on the road
January 2015
The primes of the story
This is an idea I swiped from Zachary Mason
December 2014
Dancing the flip flop
A particular creative and technical process that fascinates me
December 2014
Making culture for the internets
It’s us, the internet culture makers, who are behind
February 2013
The prime mover
One of the people we lost in 2012 was Jim Naughton. He had an outsized influence on me
December 2012
Making progress, sure and steady
An encounter in the fog
May 2012
Penumbra has a posse
You know those heist movies, where half the fun is watching the team come together?
June 2011
Inventing the book
Notes on The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree
May 2011
Further reading for Penumbra fans
So you read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, and now you want something similar
May 2011