The Jeopardy Phenomenon đź”—
There’s the thing where if you’re reading an article in the newspaper, and it’s about stuff you don’t know a ton about, it all seems well and good. Th [...]
Chris Coyier
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The Great (Refrigerator) Divide đź”—
I like a good hot sauce. It’s not, like, my personality, but I enjoy them. There are enough different hot sauces that having a bit of a collection of [...]
ToiletTree Fogless Shower Mirror đź”—
I know this is a weird product recommendation, but I’ve just thought about it too long and it needs to come out. I’ve used the ToiletTree Fogless Show [...]
Microsoft™ Ergonomic Keyboard (now sold by Incase) 🔗
For my own long-term reference. My favorite keyboard is the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard. But Microsoft is out of the keyboard hardware game. So appar [...]
October 24, 2025 5:04 PM
Tom Burkert on controlling what he reads, through RSS of course. If I’m in the mood for something lighter, I can just look into my “Fun” folder to che [...]
Everything is Broken đź”—
Over in the ol’ ShopTalk Discord (that’s what our Patreon thingy unlocks) our editor Chris Enns was venting about some streaming gear woes. And I said [...]
Plates đź”—
I bought a new set the other day, after asking about it on Bluesky. This is me jotting down the good recommendations I got. [...]
Oregon Rocketry đź”—
My co-worker Robert is into model rocketry. I made a few rockets in my day, but the hobby stopped at Estes. I didn’t really realize people take rocket [...]
Oatmeal on AI Art đź”—
Reading Oatmeal stuff is always such a seesaw for me. It’s so riddled with like boobshark jokes and I’m like, yeah yeah ha ha. I don’t hate that kind [...]
Media Diet đź”—
📺 Wondla — 10/10 kids show. I was way into it. Post-apoc situation with underground bunkers (apparently Apple loves that theme) where when the protag [...]
Clap on the off beat đź”—
Clapping on the on-beat sounds weird and wrong on (most?) songs. In (most?) 4/4 songs, that means clapping on the 1 and 3 sounds bad and 2 and 4 sound [...]
Fixing the `opendiff` command line tool đź”—
On my Mac, you can use this command like… And it’ll open some built-in GUI app called FileMerge to show you the diff. It wasn’t working for me. I wish [...]