Month: January 2026
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Links to keep – January 30 2026
The Family Firmament is a planetarium in the ceiling of a late 18th century house in the Netherlands. Great photos! Someone’s decades-long obsession leaves us with a remarkable working artifact of knowledge. Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy. Let’s just say it’s the best nap ever. I avoid linking to everything James Fallows writes,…
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Links to keep – January 26 2026
At my own pace, and with my own interests, I’ve been dabbling with AI tooling and workflows. The second- and third-order societal impacts are still TBD, but I’ve learned enough to agree that “Choosing not to adopt API “right now” is a decision to fall behind.” True today for those in software fields and software…
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Links to keep – January 15 2026
Detailed story about American Samoans in Alaska being whipsawed by election law, which few involved even understand. The desire to tell a national story about election fraud (with few facts) leads to personal trauma for innocents: Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It. Where is Design Heading? is still in an open tab, not yet…
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Removing background from an image with Claude and ChatGPT
Things have been quiet on my blog for years, but over the holidays, I cleared some cruft and did very light customization of the default template, which included adding an About page, with an image of your author. Getting the image to a satisfactory place took me far longer than expected. I’m a neophyte in…