Yorba's State of Clutter 2025 is here! Exercising #privacy rights should be simple. Instead: 💌 Email unsubscribe? 84% success rate ♾️ Deleting your account? 48% success rate There's more juicy info on the gap between our rights in theory and practice: stateofclutter.org/

Last week I watched a city burn from a rooftop in Kathmandu. Here are my reflections on what sparked a revolution: a government social-media ban, rage at corruption, and the unchecked power of global tech. schmud.de/posts/2025-09-18-s… #buddhism, #nepal, #nepokids, #genz

To help people manage their online footprint at Yorba, we first need to wrangle the web presence of countless businesses and organizations. This is a technical piece on how we use #Clojure to query and classify the world's knowledge. schmud.de/programs/2025-09-0… #wikidata

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Interesting article by @scottwernerd, who sets up Dijkstra & Kay as a continuum in "Safe Is What We Call Things Later." He claims that we find mainstream programming either on one side of the debate or the other; the pendulum swings decade after decade. worksonmymachine.ai/p/safe-i…

In "Engineering the End of Work" I look at how we can resist the future promised by LLM ghouls through the lens of the labor movement. This one is from the heart of the Rust Belt. I hope you enjoy! schmud.de/posts/2025-07-15-e… #llm #ai #union #Labor

"I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me" (review) schmud.de/books/i-could-tell… #pentagon

A retrospective of my favorite cultural events of 2024: fine art, music, literature, cinema, and more! schmud.de/books/taste-of-202… Sneak peak: Wim Winders, Cyberaktif, Twin Tribes, Past Present Future, Wittenberg, Tarnof, McCalden, and Henke.

On staying in one city vs. moving to another by @txxnano. blog.ignaciobrasca.com/opini…

My review of "Short Fiction" by Philip K. Dick​: schmud.de/books/short-fictio…. Dick never intended these stories to be bound together in this way. The elegant & free Standard Ebook ed. is an accident of US copyright law. Unfortunately, the sum is not greater than the parts. #scifi

Here are the best performing climate solutions funds since 2022. The top performer was down -3.21% in that period. This is why kids are desperate for a solution. Your dumb market solutions are all pointing in the wrong direction. And let’s not talk about government (in)action!

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Awesome talk from @jessmartin on how you can share your schema between apps for interoperability with @dxos_org and @EffectTS_

Love this @larkhall performance. Really gives you a sense of the great things they're doing with music and visual tech. youtube.com/watch?v=PyjrcoSv…

RIP Steve. Was a great pleasure to spend a little time at Electrical Audio. “Albini’s guitar tone is a thing of torqued splendor and unfathomable intent, like the inside of a machine that should never have been opened.” ~ @4_columns 4columns.org/frere-jones-sas…

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Naming names, @edzitron calls out Prabhakar Raghavan for ruining Google Search. Many of these tech execs are like ESPN sports prognosticators who are almost always wrong but somehow keep their spot on television as an "expert." wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-…

This 4 second short film and website is one of my favorite digital works of art in 2024. "Ｂｉｔｗｉｓｅ 📼 Ｌｉｍｉｎａｌ: A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code" by @KilledByAPixel killedbyapixel.github.io/Tin…

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI. I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on. Then I busted out VC 2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived. That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions! I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect. So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :) Follow me for more random code musings!