Spent some time exploring Tapestry last night (and stayed up too late doing so, boo). Really appreciate what it’s going for, but it’s not quite what I want, so going to stick with Reeder.

I’m very much on team “alternate voting systems in the U.S., please,” but it’s also wild how much of what’s happening in Gaza right now can arguably be traced back to proportional representation with low thresholds.

Je viens d’entendre à la RTS une définition des « digital natives » comme la génération Z. On a commencé à employer cette phrase aux années 2000 pour décrire ma génération, et son usage continu pour signifier « les jeunes d’aujourd’hui » révèle combien elle est inutile.

Love that moment in academic writing where you can find five rejected versions of a paragraph below the version I’m currently working on.

From its earliest paragraphs, All Systems Red is helping clarify my feelings about the Murderbot TV show. I don’t know that it’s a bad adaptation so much as I think that some of my favorite parts of the book just can’t be adapted to screen.

I’m glad I have my files organized enough to retrieve preprints of about a decade’s worth of research, but I really wish I’d been doing this as I went.

Current levels of home maintenance confidence: Feeling like a god for taking a pocket door off its track and feeling utterly intimidated by needing to eventually put it back on.

I don’t think copyright is the best argument against generative AI (strengthening copyright law will benefit big companies more than small creators), but “can’t make an AI omelette without breaking a few copyrighted eggs 🤷🤷🤷” is still a depressingly cynical national policy.

Went to claim kiddo’s prizes for doing library summer reading and walked away with four free admissions to the roller rink, an EXIT-brand puzzle gamebook, and a bunch of other stuff. Libraries are great.

A dehumidifier that we’ve been putting off taking to an appliance disposal dropoff—for months—decided to magically work for us after a late night fridge leak yesterday. Thanks, little guy. Don’t know what kind of karmic advance we had to call in for that, but I’m grateful.

Bien content que ma fille me fasse confiance pour traduire quelques mots fr français dans une épisode de My Little Pony.

Just sent one of the most stressful emails of my career and got an out of office reply. I’m not mad—good for people taking time away from work—but that’s a heck of an anticlimax.

Talking in the car about Unicode standards for emojis, like all daddy-daughter pairs.

Je compte bientôt préparer un document professionnel en français. Il y a cinq ans, j’aurais demandé à quelqu’un de m’aider à corriger des erreurs. En 2025, par contre, je me demande si mes petites erreurs éventuelles feront preuve que j’ai tout écrit moi-même au lieu de me fier à l’IA.

Every game I bought myself for kiddo’s Switch has really only gotten playtime if kiddo has taken an interest in it.

I hear people are angry about Superman being an immigrant, so I think it’s time to read “Superman Smashes the Klan” again (and maybe even listen to the 1940s radio serial it’s based on).

J’ai été content aujourd’hui de comprendre le mot « rougeole » à la RTS. Puis, je me suis demandé où j’aurai eu besoin d’apprendre ce mot dans le passé. Comme elle fait sa réapparation aux États-Unis maintenant, peut-être que j’en aurai besoin en fin de compte.

Dealing with yet another case of “these reviewer suggestions are good and pretty straightforward, so why don’t I have any motivation to make the revisions?”

Discovered a quirky museum spotlighting local artists and found in their gift shop a zine that a former student of mine contributed to. Double win!

Je suis content de découvrir combien il est facile de changer mon site Hugo en version multilangue, mais il y aura des conséquences pour le POSSE si je ne suis pas attentif…

Playing the Portal series with kiddo is going well, except that she is (understandably, tbh) freaked out by the Valve screen that appears when you first load it.

One of my favorite ways of stretching my Hugo and Siri Shortcuts skills is thinking about features I could build into my website based off of what other services already offer. Thinking about building a game session logging system this summer…

I feel like we need to talk more about epistemology—and especially the social construction of facts—in the era of chatbot LLMs.

What kind of children’s performer has three different “no photos” reminders before the show even starts?

Kiddo’s Father’s Day card has been addressed to “Dr. Spencer Greenhalgh,” which is technically accurate but still feels off.