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Deep Research and the drive to create more private data moats

Thu • 2/27/25

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Not knowing what’s real anymore

Tue • 2/25/25

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The balance between roll-your-own and cloud infra

Thu • 2/20/25

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Web dev to software dev is a hell-bending minefield

Mon • 2/17/25

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I dream about 10Gbps Internet, impractical as it may be

Thu • 2/13/25

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Get more context with in your AI with MCP, pronto

Tue • 2/11/25

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Yes, I do watch YouTube through my TV

Tue • 2/11/25

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The zen of blogging

Mon • 2/10/25

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Take 20 minutes to write your prompts. Yes, seriously.

Mon • 2/10/25

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Shifting the perspective to “professional” from “personal”

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Make Software for One (and then some)

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More Jobs and More Automation than Ever

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Complete Umami Analytics Install and Upgrade Guide for RunCloud

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How to Compile and Use Untrunc to Fix Your Video On a Mac and Alternatives to Try

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Make a Task List to Keep Up with Friends

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Mario game typography color is worthy of analysis

Thu • 1/23/25

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AI coding is an unreliable slot machine that I’m addicted to

Thu • 1/23/25

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My AI is…chuckling?

Wed • 1/22/25

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Apple Music Listening History Converter

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Tip: Pastebin Alternative Built Into Warp, One-Click Command Sharing

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Ghandi’s remarkably prescient words on civilization’s greatest tests

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The sound has a name: Shave and a Haircut

Thu • 2/29/24

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Finally getting those gigabytes to move on the internet thanks to local LLMs

Tue • 2/27/24

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Don’t pull apart the petals, enjoy the flower as is

Wed • 2/21/24

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“Write because ideas matter, not authorship”

Tue • 2/20/24

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I feel like a spreadsheet superstar with GPT-4 as my sidekick

Mon • 2/19/24

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Paying for search? Yes, yes I do. Kagi changed my mind.

Fri • 2/16/24

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The Bait and Switch of Donorbox, Amazon, and Other Companies Should Not Be Rewarded With Our Dollars

Thu • 2/15/24

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Anyone sick of paying for GPT-4 (using official ChatGPT client in browser) and having such a terrible SLA/constantly failing/stalling out/erroring out?

Wed • 2/14/24

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Must Listen: The Boy and the Heron Original Soundtrack

Wed • 2/14/24

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The “Personal” in Personal Computer Starts with My Shortcuts

Mon • 2/12/24

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Love glitching out my Apple Watch

Sat • 2/10/24

Uncategorized

Use Moom for Quick 1080p or 720p Resizing of Any Mac Window

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How to Manually Restore Your Website with InfiniteWP Backups

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Bluetooth pains, are they really a thing of the past?

Wed • 1/17/24

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Just unstar and move forward, don’t let the RSS weigh you down

Wed • 1/17/24

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How many bridges and tunnels does NYC truly have?

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Customizing DaVinci Resolve to make Horizontal scrolling work with the Shift Key instead of CMD on Mac

Tue • 10/31/23

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Navigating the Ethical Odyssey of AI, the Dance of Progress, and Ourselves

Mon • 4/24/23

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Rewatching old TV is pointing a mirror at yourself

Tue • 2/21/23

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Internet Explorer is dead…finally! (haven’t we been saying this for years now…)

Thu • 2/16/23

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Familiar WordPress lands meet shiny static site generators and my web dev quest continues

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Break glass in case of creative rut. Literally.

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A spark of joy in micro scripts for your own workflows

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Quick color name to hex code generation with ChatGPT

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Dropbox’s power being stripped away by Apple’s poor File Provider API substitution

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But, for everyone else, electric knife sharpeners are more convenient

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When do you turn on Stage Manager anyway?

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Meditative animations with Processing

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I like embracing the newness of macOS releases

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Own your domain and limit your exposure to tech giants’ rules

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When you’re drinking the Kool-Aid of views, Algorithms, and “Heating”, how do you stop?

Wed • 1/25/23

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Anyone prefer TV over movies? raises hand

Wed • 1/25/23

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Enough Signs For Me. Just Gotta Write.

Wed • 1/18/23

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Getting rich from going viral is a formula still being made

Mon • 1/31/22

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“So…why haven’t you posted an article lately?”

Thu • 9/27/18

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I’m moving to Washington D.C.

Wed • 10/18/17

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Putting money where my mouth is

Tue • 10/17/17

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Today was the 2nd anniversary of my father’s death

Mon • 10/16/17

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Replacing headphones on a Sena SMH10-11 Bluetooth Communicator

Tue • 10/10/17

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Motorcycle wipeout by a friend

Mon • 9/25/17

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I’m a budding motorcycle mechanic hitting my limits

Mon • 9/25/17

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Hotkeys not triggering with Finder folders in Alfred workflows?

Mon • 9/25/17

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Replacing the clutch perch on my 2009 Honda Rebel 250

Mon • 6/12/17

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Installing a passenger back rest/sissy bar with a luggage rack for Honda Rebel 250

Mon • 6/12/17

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Replacing the rear lights is a wiring nightmare on my Honda Rebel

Mon • 6/12/17

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Installing an aftermarket driver back rest on a Honda Rebel 250

Mon • 6/12/17

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Mounting an EZ-Pass toll reader on my Honda Rebel 250

Mon • 6/12/17

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Dropbox’s background update is using excessive CPU on my Mac

Thu • 5/18/17

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Why did Honda only provide a screwdriver for the 2009 Rebel 250 tool compartment?

Tue • 5/16/17

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Amazon Echo Look has a good chance of leading the camera-focused and connected future

Wed • 4/26/17

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Auto save IDML files when you close an InDesign document

Tue • 4/18/17

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My thoughts on Warren Buffet’s Letter to Berkshire Shareholders

Mon • 3/20/17

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Solving the mystery of HDMI handshake issues with my Apple TV and Yamaha Receiver

Fri • 12/2/16

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Pasting and formatting rich text in InDesign

Wed • 11/23/16

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Attempted theft on my scooter using a pen ink cartridge

Sun • 11/20/16

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Breaking in new tires on my scooter, and a horse in traffic

Sun • 11/20/16

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Tiny Alfred Workflow: Genius “I’m Lucky” Lyrics

Fri • 11/11/16

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Tiny Alfred Workflow: Current Tab in Google Chrome’s Incognito

Fri • 11/11/16

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An ode to virtualization on the Mac

Sun • 11/6/16

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Hey Adobe, hijacking the cursor is so 1997

Sat • 11/5/16

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Hubris of human bees

Sat • 1/31/15

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NYS is working to increase minimum wage for tipped workers to $7.50

Sat • 1/31/15

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Mentioning your competitor in an ad does not constitute a trademark violation

Sat • 1/31/15

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Looks by Dr. Dre + Subtraction.com

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Ramadan is going mainstream. Why buck the trend?

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Inspecting Yosemite’s Icons

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Why Foursquare has the potential to kill Yelp, and then Google…

Fri • 6/20/14

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» Nostalgia and Newspapers Clay Shirky

Thu • 6/19/14

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I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are

Thu • 6/19/14

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Yo – Ian Bogost – The Atlantic

Thu • 6/19/14

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The End of Cuisine – NYTimes.com

Wed • 6/18/14

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How normal is being redefined?

Sun • 6/15/14

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The Art of Eyeballing – Part II: Learning To See

Tue • 6/10/14

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Intention

Tue • 6/10/14

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How To Code HTML5 Video Background In Email

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Swift has me thinking about programming languages

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“Calling a developer a coder is like a tourist calling San Francisco Frisco”

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Because getting a job isn’t already difficult

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Helvetica Neue leads the charge for better displays

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I’m New Here

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Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes

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“Avoiding Business school” is a one-sided perspective that doesn’t see the real-world value

Sat • 5/31/14

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Snowden and The Wire’s Season 2 have more in common than Snowden realizes

Fri • 5/30/14

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TrueCrypt security audit presses on

Fri • 5/30/14

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When it comes to design, nothing is ever settled for good

Thu • 5/29/14

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Block Inversions by Corporations to limit American tax dollar losses

Wed • 5/28/14

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Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel created Snapchat to mask his insecurities

Wed • 5/28/14

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Uber just gave lobby fodder to every Taxi commission

Wed • 5/28/14

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Drive development with budgets, not estimates

Wed • 5/28/14

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It’s official. Apple bought Beats.

Wed • 5/28/14

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“TrueCrypt is not secure”

Wed • 5/28/14

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50 Ways to Get a Job

Wed • 5/28/14

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Tradition is non-existent in technology

Thu • 5/15/14

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Apps that know about you before you do (and I’m okay with that)

Thu • 5/15/14

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The Study of Wu or how some questions have no answer

Wed • 5/14/14

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Working should be like breathing: stop and started at regular intervals

Wed • 5/14/14

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How to talk to your inner perfectionist

Tue • 5/13/14

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Businesses need to hire copywriters with direction

Mon • 5/12/14

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Drawing bezier curves with less points, more accuracy, and better results

Sun • 5/11/14

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What does a Product Designer Do?

Sun • 5/11/14

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My workflow for building a parallax or animated website

Sat • 5/10/14

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Words have different signals to different people. Which one will you choose to make your point?

Sat • 5/10/14

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Curing the Anxiety of Trains Deferred from their Appointed Times

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Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs and ride through red lights

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Anecdote: The purpose of an indent in a paragraph start

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On social media, we don’t try to exist. We just try to be visible.

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Here is an AppleScript to create layers automatically in InDesign

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Use a clearance color to remove stray/extra color palettes in InDesign

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Multiple Records not showing up when you Data Merge in InDesign? Tips to make it all flow

Tue • 4/29/14

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How to use Avery Templates in InDesign

Tue • 4/29/14

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Hello, Stranger (on the subway)

Sun • 4/27/14

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Starting the MTA Map Project

Fri • 2/14/14

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What’s after RSS? The next channel of news.

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I’m trying to learn how to program, and that’s okay

Fri • 11/1/13

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iOS 7: forward-thinking design and engineering

Mon • 10/28/13

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Making snap judgments before using iOS 7

Tue • 6/11/13

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A Windex Ritual

Tue • 5/21/13

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The train ride

Tue • 3/12/13

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Books are a glance inside someone’s mind

Fri • 12/21/12

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Exchanging ideas

Fri • 12/21/12

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Advertising virus

Fri • 12/7/12

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At least they stab you in the front

Tue • 12/4/12

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A review of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Sun • 12/2/12

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Try to be alive; breathe deeply

Sun • 12/2/12

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Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow…

Sun • 12/2/12

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A series of moments

Sun • 12/2/12

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The Future Is In the Clouds

Wed • 11/28/12

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The Artform of Care

Tue • 11/27/12

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Straight out of Halo

Tue • 11/27/12

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One day of activity for NY Subway

Mon • 11/26/12

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The Writing Revolution

Mon • 11/26/12

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Ode to Chillies

Mon • 11/26/12

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The evolution of Daft Punk is dubstep

Sun • 11/18/12

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Writing an unforgettable college essay

Wed • 11/14/12

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Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web

Wed • 11/14/12

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Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

Mon • 11/12/12

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The problem with endless musical choice

Sun • 11/11/12

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The Day After

Sat • 11/10/12

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The ultimate goal

Tue • 10/23/12

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“This isn’t a game. It’s my life.”

Tue • 10/23/12

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Something flickered at the edges of conscious perception

Wed • 7/25/12

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Behold, the light

Wed • 7/18/12

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Great Artists Steal

Thu • 7/12/12

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Moved to emulate

Thu • 7/12/12

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The distance

Tue • 7/10/12

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Foggy bottom

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Le Miroir

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Nite fall

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Words of Mass Emotional Disruption

Fri • 6/22/12

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Project Blow Job

Wed • 6/20/12

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The luminaries of the skies

Mon • 6/11/12

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Tackling the problem again

Sun • 6/10/12

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The Manhattan Project

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If Social Media Sites Were Boyfriends

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Love is the answer to everything

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Well, I did feel bad…

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Twitter’s Bird Lost Some Weight

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Pantone Skin Tones

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Ars Technica does it again with its review of Photoshop CS6

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Momentary bonding with family

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Do you sense the shift of your mind?

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Criss-crossing smoke to locate the fire

Thu • 5/31/12

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Will Work for Love T-Shirt Concept

Wed • 5/30/12

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Listen, Think, & Speak

Wed • 5/30/12

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Emerging from the NYC Subway

Wed • 5/23/12

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Heartless by The Fray

Wed • 5/23/12

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Adobe CS6 Branding Process

Wed • 5/23/12

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In My Mind by Tiësto

Wed • 5/23/12

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The beast asleep within my aorta

Mon • 5/21/12

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Capturing the self

Sun • 5/13/12

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Lonesomeness

Sat • 5/12/12

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clanging thoughts

Thu • 5/10/12

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the lens

Thu • 5/10/12

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This Muslim-American Life

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Find a place for our hearts to rest

Sun • 3/25/12

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Ring the doorbell

Fri • 3/23/12

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Reinventing the human heart

Mon • 3/19/12

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The weight of writing

Mon • 3/19/12

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What makes a great designer?

Sat • 3/17/12

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The Go-Nowhere Generation

Fri • 3/16/12

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Time is a choice, you can spend it differently

Fri • 3/16/12

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Bohr’s definition of expert

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Fail better

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Revere the process of creativity

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Bronx Science: not a particularly driven enviornment

Sat • 2/25/12

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The Great Social Equalizer

Sun • 2/19/12

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New York is made for you.

Fri • 2/17/12

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All day, every day, 24-7.

Thu • 2/16/12

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Train chasm

Sat • 2/11/12

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Boulevard of lights

Sat • 2/11/12

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Moroccan brass

Sat • 2/11/12

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Uncle floppy cakes

Fri • 2/10/12

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Steve Jobs, Superhero

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Educational pies

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Glass triangles

Tue • 1/31/12

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The shadow

Tue • 1/31/12

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Keep riding the bicycle

Thu • 1/26/12

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It’s the whipped cream that counts

Sun • 1/22/12

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What Is College For?

Sat • 1/21/12

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Going with your gut in App development

Sat • 1/21/12

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Do Great Things

Sat • 1/21/12

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‘Dropbox Inventor Determined to Build the Next Apple or Google’

Sat • 1/21/12

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Curve up higher

Wed • 1/18/12

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Are smart people ugly?

Thu • 1/12/12

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Oil painted skies

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In Between You & Me is a Bank

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Peeling type from the subway tiles

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The HPs guard Apple

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Better – Merlin Mann

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Consume, create, collaborate, repeat

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Prepping salmon

Sat • 12/31/11

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…and it’s done!

Sat • 12/31/11

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The finest American construction

Wed • 12/28/11

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NJ Light rail tracks

Wed • 12/28/11

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Closed-minded vs. Idea Sex

Sun • 12/25/11

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Standard Type signage

Sun • 12/25/11

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Go vintage

Mon • 12/19/11

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It’s your frame of mind

Fri • 12/16/11

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Splashing sunset

Sun • 12/11/11

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Light me on fire

Thu • 11/24/11

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Liquid metal

Thu • 11/24/11

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Mysterious pizza neon

Mon • 11/14/11

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Retro keyboards at Target

Sun • 11/13/11

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Democracy

Wed • 11/9/11

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The one door train

Wed • 11/9/11

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Prayer is approaching…

Sun • 11/6/11

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Where art thou shadow?

Sun • 11/6/11

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Sidewalk kufis

Sun • 11/6/11

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Split the sky

Sat • 11/5/11

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Break me off a piece!

Sat • 11/5/11

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Perfection in train construction

Thu • 11/3/11

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Large, metal type

Tue • 11/1/11

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His old smile

Mon • 10/31/11

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Desktops are obsolete

Mon • 10/31/11

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Light Chase

Sat • 10/29/11

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The snow has begun to fall

Sat • 10/29/11

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Light-hearted Memories

Mon • 10/17/11

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Blocks of text…and for what?

Thu • 10/6/11

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Aptitude declining, intelligence waning

Thu • 9/22/11

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Slow Sleep

Sun • 9/11/11

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The Train at Sunnyside Station

Mon • 8/22/11

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Only one son

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Discussion Points

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Fear and Joy

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The 3rd Writing Method

Mon • 11/29/10

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Fictional Account from an Anonymous US Official

Tue • 11/2/10

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