Long Read
250 years later, here's what actually got lost.
I love this country. I don't love a flag, and I think a lot of people mix those two things up without realizing it.
This year's Fourth of July landed weird for me. With the current administration in office, I couldn't get into the mood for cookouts and …
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball recently gave a name to something we've all been quietly furious about for years: the dickover. It's that full-screen curtain that drops the second you land on an article, demanding you subscribe to a newsletter, accept seventeen kinds of cookies, or download an …
So my RSS tab in Perch runs on Inkwell, Micro.blog’s RSS reader, using my micro.blog token.
Inkwell’s own apps have this thing where posts are split into three tabs — Today, Recent, and Fading — and stuff just naturally ages out instead of turning into a giant unread pile. Manton talked about this …
Thirty-six years ago today, a civil rights law went into effect that said — in plain terms — disabled people belong everywhere. In jobs. In schools. On buses. In buildings. In public life.
That was the promise.
The promise is still being negotiated.
What the ADA Was Built to DoFor anyone who wasn't …
Today's Date
6-26-26
Palindrome Day
← same both ways →
Read it backward. Same thing. I find this unreasonably satisfying.
Palindrome dates depend entirely on how you write the date. In the U.S. short format (M-DD-YY), today works perfectly. In the full eight-digit MM-DD-YYYY format? Not so much. …
Something's been quietly building for the past year that's about to get very loud this fall when new iPhones and Samsung flagships drop. Your next device is going to cost more. Maybe a lot more.
And the reason is one of the unexpected tech stories I've followed in a while — one that starts deep …
I've been writing blog posts on and off for over 20 years. I survived the Blogger era, bounced around platforms, and eventually landed on Micro.blog — where I've been happily tinkering ever since. I dabble in HTML and CSS for fun, I'm a perfectionist about how my posts look, and I have a long …
There's a patch of wild grass behind my tiny house I've never mowed. Something always shows up there — a beetle, a moth, a spider doing its thing. So I made a quiet deal with that patch of ground: I leave it alone, it does its thing.
It's a small thing. But on Earth Day, small things are what I …
This past week, the world watched four astronauts climb into a capsule called Integrity and fly to the Moon and back for the first time in over fifty years. Artemis II splashed down in the Pacific on April 10th, carrying Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen farther from …
So, it’s actually happening. Starting in 2027, Greece is banning social media for anyone under the age of 15.
What happened? Prime Minister Mitsotakis went on TikTok today to break the news. He’s doing this because he’s seen a massive rise in anxiety and sleep loss in kids who are addicted to their …