An Earnest Entreaty To Watch The Road Before My Rearview Mirror Develops Trust Issues
I saw a driver behind me looking down at a red light, and suddenly my rearview mirror developed trust issues…
Gemini
Flying Cars: The Future That Keeps Circling the Airport
We were promised flying cars decades ago, so why are we still sitting in traffic like obedient little ground mammals…
AI Streaming, or Why the Robot Is Typing Like It Just Found the Coffee
AI is not typing like a tiny office goblin. Streaming is stranger, faster, and way more interesting than…
CS202 Episode 7: Software Engineering as Team Sport, or The Social Layer of Technical Work Where Half the Problems Move
Software stops being a solo act when the codebase starts needing memory, manners, reviews, and someone brave enough to ask…
Friday Night Laughs — Republicans vs Democrats
Republicans, Democrats, leaking valves, and the one thing America still agrees on: somebody better call the plumber before…
Nasser, the Suez Canal, and the Day History Got Stuck in Traffic
Nasser took the canal, Britain and France took offense, and history immediately started making that face where…
CS202 Episode 5: Build Systems and Dependency Management, or How Software Becomes a Thing You Can Actually Run on Purpose
Software does not become real just because the code looks sincere. First it has to build, link, package, and survive the tiny machinery of…
Episode 71: Edward Hopper, or How to Paint Loneliness So Well the Room Starts Avoiding Eye Contact
A lonely diner, a brutal beam of light, and the painter who made silence feel louder than…
Episode 70: James McNeill Whistler, or How to Paint So Quietly the Critics Start Yelling
Whistler painted mood, sued a critic, won a farthing, and still changed modern art because of course he…
Friday Night Laughs — Do Gooders
Do gooders mean well, but somehow one clipboard, one signup sheet, and one tiny fundraiser can turn your Saturday into…