How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed

Just cracked my morning plate of whistles, thanks @seanhollister.bsky.social

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

This whistle fights fascists

Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

I have a 3D printer now because truly making things is the only salve

The update we all needed on a story which was stuck in my head all year

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My last story of the year: an update on the woman who fell in love with ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...

built my first NAS this weekend and oh I missed the feeling of snapping RAM into place

Definitely Microsoft Teams

Note to Self@notetoself.studio · 8mo ago

Brian Moore's Busy Simulator makes repeating app sounds that make you seem incredibly busy. Which of these sounds make you cringe the hardest?

Same, going to as many of these as possible

Kristen Seversky@kr1573n.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I already enjoy the local handmade holiday festivals but I find my appreciation exponentially growing in an AI era.

Joyce Carol Oates owning Elon is the only thing I’m sad about missing

Both the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline websites have a "Quick exit" feature for when parent or boss walks in: press Esc to switch to weather.com or Google

All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...

#ai#excel#accounting#artificialintelligence#brenda

TikTok video by Ada James

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this new Lily Allen album 🔥🔥🔥

season 3 and still enjoying watching Keri Russell walk with extreme purpose down important hallways in disheveled suits

speaking of building apps with AI, Quests is VERY good quests.dev

Quests · The open-source app builder

Quests builds and runs apps on your computer using any LLM

quests.dev

notes on gen AI being remarkable and so very bad at the same time

Measured AI | Note to Self

The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...

notetoself.studio

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

today I wrote code that runs every day to log my current level of email inbox chaos to a spreadsheet with a list of the senders I've ignored the most, there's even a line chart in there because some days a tiny illusion of control is comforting

Writing vulnerable things so terrifying / connecting something for someone so gratifying

Tim Weston@timweston.com · 10mo ago

Really great blog post by @ginatrapani.org at @notetoself.studio

Already shelled pistachios - the ultimate luxury

a phone home screen is a window into the soul

boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going

Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step...

kepano@stephango.com · 2y ago

a quick demo of how I edit my website with Obsidian 1.8 write in @obsidian.md → auto-build jekyll → preview local site in web viewer tab → push to github → auto-deploy to live site I've been making websites for twenty five years, and this is by far the nicest it's ever been pt 1/2

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

Note to Self by Gina Trapani

A blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.

notetoself.studio

It’s weird to live with a giant who used to fit on my forearm

Had to look up the sex emoji to make sure I wasn’t accidentally texting something untoward

FOR THE FANS! before every snack and meal, one of my favorite K-pop Demon Hunters takeaways

a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .

Alt: A group of women standing next to each other with their arms in the air

media.tenor.com

Boonswoggle (v) a portmanteau of boondoggle and hornswoggle ie, We’re running late because our preteen boonswoggled me into stopping at Claire’s and buying her face glitter

I tend to discount AI chatbots as a fawning junior intern trying desperately to impress me but Harsh Claude and I might be able to get somewhere - wonderful piece

Maggie Appleton@maggieappleton.com · 12mo ago

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

These egg tealight candles by @jennschiffer.com brought me the highest ratio of delight per dollar of any purchase I've made this year 🍳🕯️ bonus: explaining to my kid that no the candles do not smell like eggs and yes the store is called bugs rock and why bugsrock.online