Music That Moves Me: Episode 12 — Billy Joel’s Turn the Lights Back On, or How a Song I Did Not Love Kept Winning Anyway
I heard Billy Joel’s comeback song live and thought he had waited too long. Forty listens later, I was wondering if…
The Grand Debate: Does Coffee Hydrate or Dehydrate? Or Has Your Morning Cup Been Framed?
Coffee has been accused of dehydrating us for years. The science says your morning cup may be far less guilty than…
CS302 Episode 6: Language Design Tradeoffs, or Why Every Programming Language Makes You Pay Somewhere
Every programming language gives you power, takes something back, and quietly sends the bill somewhere else. The trick is knowing where…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 11 — Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” or How Chevy Chase, Saturday Night Live, and One Impossible Bass Solo Hijacked My Memory
One song, one absurd Chevy Chase video, one bass line that should not be physically possible, and one memory rabbit hole that…
Command+Click: The Tiny Browser Trick That Saves Your Scroll, Your Place, and Possibly Your Sanity
One tiny Mac gesture can save your scroll, your place, and your patience. Once you start Command+Clicking links, you may never…
Artist Series Episode 85: John William Waterhouse, or How to Make Mythology Beautiful Right Before Everything Goes Terribly Wrong
Waterhouse made doomed myths gorgeous, then hid danger in the lilies. The deeper you look, the stranger his paintings become…
Custom GPTs Are Retiring: What Plugins Are, What Migration Actually Does, and Why December 11 Just Became Homework
Your custom GPT has a December 11 deadline. What migrates, what disappears, and what you really need to test before…
The Equinox Has Some Explaining to Do: Fall, Spring, and Why 12 Hours Is More of a Suggestion
Fall is not quite a 12-hour day, Australia already changed seasons, and the poles are doing something completely ridiculous…
CS302 Episode 5: Compiler Pipeline Basics, or How Your Code Gets Taken Apart, Judged, Rearranged, and Finally Allowed Near the CPU
Your code does not become machine instructions in one jump. It gets tokenized, parsed, checked, reshaped, optimized, and then…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 10 — Chicago’s If You Leave Me Now, or How a Breakup Song Became Four Minutes of Peace
Chicago turned heartbreak into one of the calmest songs ever. Why does If You Leave Me Now feel like peace when the words say…