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s16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful
October 3, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, the third of November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm excited about the people who've booked a virtual coffee with me1, so...
s16e06: Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem
October 2, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A grey Monday, October 2nd 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm open for my next block of consulting work and looking for interesting people to...
s16e05: Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me
September 29, 2023
1.0 Context Setting It's Friday, September 29, 2023 and I am sat on the couch in the family room listening to Apple Music's Living in the Library Apple Music...
s16e04: Hands, Brains, Eyes
September 28, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 28 September, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and this has been a difficult newsletter to write because the words didn't fall out....
s16e03: It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid
September 27, 2023
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 27 September, 2023 in Portland Oregon and it is not raining right now. Thank you everyone who has sent a note -- I will be...
s16e02: Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes
September 26, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 26 September 2023 in Portland, Oregon. We are under an atmospheric river. Sunday night I had the exciting experience of...
s16e01: I too aspire for my memory to be safe
September 22, 2023
0.0 Context setting It's Friday, 22 September, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am sitting in my study on a sunny day, which sun is fighting a valiant effort...
s15e01: Marks on Flat Planes
June 8, 2023
0.0 Context setting It's Thursday, 8 June 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where the high will be 78f / 25.5c today, and the rough carbon load in our atmosphere is...
s14e17: Good Enough
March 7, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 7 March 2023. I started writing this on Friday and then got waylaid. At the time, we'd mostly extricated ourselves from the...
s14e16: The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now
February 21, 2023
0.0 Context Setting Tuesday, 21 February, 2023. Well! I have been away for a little bit. We are in the middle of buying a house (our first one). There’s...
s14e15: Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement
February 10, 2023
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 10 February, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and a grey, half-hearted rain of a day. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Hey,...
s14e14: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace
February 8, 2023
s14e14: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace 0.0 Context Setting A sunny, clear Wednesday morning in...
s14e13: Concept Art
January 31, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A sunny, chilly Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, 31 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Concept...
s14e12: Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me
January 30, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, January 30, 2023 in Portland Oregon and it is cold and sunny, which means it is a stereotpically crisp winter morning and...
s14e11: To help you best, I'd need to know you
January 27, 2023
0.0 Context Setting I can see blue patches in the sky today. It’s Friday, January 27, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am incredibly into listening to this...
s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough
January 26, 2023
s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough 0.0 Context Setting A grey, cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on 26 January, 2023. Let's get on with it. 1.0 Some...
s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation
January 25, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s a grey morning in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 and my nearby peripheral sensors say it’s 71 degrees Fahrenheit...
s14e08 - Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency
January 17, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's a grey, not-raining Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon, on 17 January, 2022. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 A Few...
s14e07: Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard
January 11, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A bright and sunny, hardly-any-clouds morning in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday 11 January, 2023, and today’s challenge to write a...
s14e06: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps In It Now
January 10, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A not-rainy, nicely cloudy, not-too-cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My...
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