ninety-four things from 2022

• Dennis Miller: Fake News, Real Jokes
• TIL that things designed for “sensory stimulation, safe nesting, physical exercise, and feeding behavior” in captive animals (labs, aquariums, zoos) are called “Enrichment Devices”.
• On the Tragedy of systemd
• Poker Face
• On Convenience in 2022
• Crinoids!
• The Mess Britain Is In
• In 1942, Bob Emmett Fletcher agreed to manage 90 acres of farmland for his Japanese neighbors who had been forcibly moved to internment camps.
• A Terrible Typeface on an Expensive Watch
• “Greatest Parking Lot” by Ethel Greene (1969)
• “What we have built together is sad, buggy, quixotic garbage but you have to use it.”
• Telugu Folk at The Movies
• Mortal Kombat+ is a set of Enhancements and Bugfixes to the original trio of games
• My Awesome Downtown Pad
• Black Hole
• Gargi
• UCoin is a vast database of coins for numismatists with nearly 46 million entries and counting
• On Morals versus Ethics
• This “20th Century Fox Flute” is the funniest thing I’ve seen in 2022 thus far
• Bumblebee
• On Living
• “How a Public School in Florida Built America’s Greatest Math Team”
• On Criminal Nature
• Under the Banner of Heaven
• Se7en
• On the Democrat Reelection Strategy
• Shorting Things
• The Very Stable Genius
• Impossible Typefaces
• “I Fucking Hate Jira” is a collection of people sharing their feelings about one of the worst pieces of software I continue to use every day.
• Enola Holmes
• OpenCore Legacy Patcher allows you to run the latest macOS (Monterey) on your old Macs
• Sliced Bread was invented on July 7th, 1928 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Davenport, Iowa
• I finally found the French textbook I used in middle school: Cours de Langue et de Civilisation Françaises
• Dune Art (and other lovely things by Owen Gent)
• Robert Wardhaugh is a Professor of History in Canada who’s run a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign for 40 years.
• “If you can’t be responsible of following some other simple rules in society to behave, why should you have a gun?”
• Those Tyrannical Masks
• “There’s an illusion with work that everything you give up now, all the stolen time commuting, working overtime, checking your email and Slack notifications after hours, will somehow earn you freedom and capital in your later years.”
• pup is a delightful little command-line utility that lets you parse HTML
• I have only now read this 2007 rant about the Rails community (and consultants, MBAs, compensation, and other assorted programmer things) and it’s the most entertaining thing I’ve read in a while
• The Northman
• Bheemla Nayak
• “We All Want Clean H2O” is a Podcast about Water Quality, Policy, Agriculture, and Climate Change
• A Black and White Photograph of the Bust of Queen Nefertiti
• My Undecided Thirties
• Zephyr Howls
• “Tabler Icons” are free SVG icons for web design.
• A List of Patriotic Groups for Old Mouthbreathing Ultra-Conservative Chickenshits
• It’s Wednesday
• ThanosJS is a Hot New Framework that promises to “reduce the file size of your project down to 50%”
• Netsuke
• The Valeriepieris Circle
• “It’s very simple. We have multiple paths. We control them all. We have operational control. Total leverage.”
• Interview with a Senior JavaScript Developer in 2022
• On Doing Nothing At All
• “Penumbra” by Lance Hidy is an absolutely gorgeous (all-caps only) typeface
• An Ingredient Parser using TensorFlow
• There are Disgusting Fucking Human Beings and then there’s Alex Jones
• On One’s Work
• “entr” provides a nice interface to inotify
• Check Everything and Twice
• The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
• House of Gucci
• Waiting is Hard Work
• Senator Grassley, People, and Party
• On Sitting on your Arse
• On Life’s Work
• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
• Eminem Responds to Rudy Giuliani
• Kali
• An Anglerfish
• Clean
• “Got Your Back” will back up your Gmail inbox to your computer.
• Dan Brown is Renowned
• Steller’s Sea Eagle
• The Very Clever Man
• A Columbo Caricature
• The Democrats in 2022
• The Salesman
• “I don’t know. Somebody saw one once.”
• On Software
• On Fear (and Lethargy)
• Oracle
• Bordertown: The Mural Murders
• Adventuron is a framework that lets you create old-school Text Adventure games for a browser
• On Drawing Logical Conclusions
• “Translanguaging” is the act of interleaving elements of two or more languages together to communicate more effectively.
• The Art of Hajime Sorayama
• Car Silhouettes
• The Eye: Calanthek
• On Living Together
• I am 20
• Akhanda