One PE firm owns Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare, Instant Pot, Anchor Hocking, and Oneida. The pastel Instagram pans lose their nonstick between cooking cycle 30 and 60. A pan measured in months, priced like it's forever. Who owns your kitchen, and what's still worth buying 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3xc53m

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

worseonpurpose.com

Here’s my radical position: Just be normal about shit. That’s it. Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-no...

Just Be Normal About Things

On sleepmaxxing, beef-only diets, political hysteria, and the lost art of being reasonable

joanwestenberg.com

Most people don't read @joanwestenberg.com. They don't know what they are missing out on. Sorry, had to :) www.joanwestenberg.com/i-truly-hate...

I truly hate mostpeopleslop

In 2006, Joe Sugarman published a book called The Adweek Copywriting Handbook - and an axiom stuck... "The sole purpose of the first sentence in an advertisement is to get you to read the second sent...

joanwestenberg.com

While also being a great postmortem of one of the initial vectors for Shai-Hulud 2.0, this is a brilliant account of the challenges of working with CI/CD tools in open source while keeping them secure from @posthog.com posthog.com/blog/nov-24-... This level of transparency is wonderful to see 💖

Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 - PostHog

At 4:11 AM UTC on November 24th, a number of our SDKs and other packages were compromised, with a malicious self-replicating worm - Shai-Hulud 2.…

posthog.com

Very excited and proud to have planted a Live Oak tree this morning. Thanks to Austin Tree Folks for the free tree and planting guidance!

Github alerts are so fun when your co-dev is your husband "Alex created an issue" Like yeah, lemme tell ya Github. This is not the first time

I believe in you🫂

This jaw-dropping article discusses TxDOT's recent statements in support of public transit across Texas. Happy Monday, y'all! www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit

As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.

texastribune.org

> The Texas Constitution mandates that most of the agency’s budget must be spent on building and expanding freeways. —https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/texas-public-transit-plan/ Texas in a nutshell. I hope things can change in the future.

Big update to Smoke Signal just dropped! We've redesigned event pages, added ATProtocol facets support, cryptographic RSVPs, private content controls, and AI agent integration.

Smoke Signal@smokesignal.events · 9mo ago

Feature drop!

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

About The Other Night...

How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

graze.leaflet.pub

I finished Big Rock City from Magic Puzzle Company with original art by Annika Brandow. I loved the art of this puzzle, and it makes use of some fantastic shapes for the pieces. A highlight in this collection for sure 👌

Just finished reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. Just wow. This feels like required reading in 2025—a premonition of our current political situation and possible future environment due to climate change.

I attended an introduction to 3D printing at the Austin Public Library last night. It was fantastic and a very gentle introduction with a focus on 3D modeling in tinkercad.com. They are printing our creations—bat decorations for halloween—and I'll be able to pick mine up soon!

Tinkercad

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

tinkercad.com

A very worthwhile read: The Electric Slide on Not Boring.

Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Tech strategy and analysis, but not boring. Click to read Not Boring by Packy McCormick, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

notboring.co

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

billmckibben.substack.com

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io