Blaugust 2026
I’m already in the middle of Blaugust this month, and then Robert Birming started something called AuguStory. Why not do both, I figured. The idea is simple: write the story of your blog, no template, no fixed questions, then send him a link so he can add you to the list. I loved the idea as soon as …
I read a 404 Media story back in May and I still think about it.
At Radnor High School in Pennsylvania, a freshman boy paid $250 for an app and used it to make fake nude pictures of five girls in his class. Real faces. Girls he sat next to every day. He sent messages about it from a school laptop. …
I walked past them for years, back when I lived in DC — those all-white bicycles chained to signposts and light poles around the city, sometimes with flowers or a photo tucked into the spokes. I knew they had to be some kind of memorial. What I never knew was what to call them. Then I came across a …
Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? by Michael Harley
On where I provide my unsolicited opinion about how you write posts on your blog.
Read post → Michael Harley wants bloggers to write better titles for their posts. Descriptive titles, no vague ones, no clickbait.
I get why he …
I saw a stat that stopped me for a second in a post by Manton Reece: there are over 600 million blogs out there right now. Not posts. Blogs. Full sites, each one somebody’s little corner of the internet.
That number is bigger than I expected. That same post puts X at about 550 million monthly users, …
I read this story (see below) about two teens in San Mateo, California, who were riding in a Waymo robotaxi and started shooting Orbeez out the windows with water guns. The car pulled over in a parking lot on its own and waited. Police showed up and picked the teens up right there.
That's the part …
I love LEGO. I love Super Mario. Both go way back for me.
It started with Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600. Coleco made that version in 1982, and I played it a lot. Then came Super Mario on the Nintendo, and that was the one that really got me. Years later, I picked it up again on my Switch. That …
I came across this Lifehacker article about browser fingerprinting and figured it was worth talking about. I turned on Brave's fingerprinting protection about two or three years ago on both my Mac and my phone, so I'm already covered. But most people have no idea this kind of tracking even exists. …
LEGO just revealed the new Icons Jaguar Type-E Roadster (11381). Dark green, wire wheels, doors and hood and trunk all open, and the fabric roof folds back too. 1,673 pieces. Comes out August 1st, $139.99. The second I saw the pictures, it reminded me of something.
I'm deaf. ASL is my first …
I learned Cmd+` last week. It's the key above Tab, the one with the tilde on it. It switches between windows of the same app. So if I have four browser windows open, that one key moves me through them without kicking me out to a different program.
The annoying part is apps don't tell you their …