Taking off for #NICAR26 in Indy soon! Come find me if you want to talk about frontend tech, data graphics, design systems, CMS hopes and dreams...
Also, I spun up a music festival grid-styled look at the schedule, if this is helpful for anyone besides me: www.tylermachado.com/nicar-schedu...
I'll be at #NICAR26 next week, and I am so excited to once again to be leading the "Building your first SvelteKit data app" hands-on demo. Now with more Svelte 5. But the same number of cats.
incidentally, what I learned from that ad is that the end result of Googling things to learn about them is the same as Googling things has always been, except now there are more color effects around the words, because AI
I will assume the discourse will be very respectful about the Turnstile sync in an ad for Google AI
There’s something sad about how many blogposts are simply copy-pasted ChatGPT output now.
It’s not writing, it’s content — not voices, but outputs. When the only button you press is for an LLM, blogposts don’t earn applause, they earn scrutiny.
yes, and: @sahanjournal.bsky.social, a nonprofit newsroom focused specifically on reporting for immigrants and communities of color in minnesota
solid New England representation at all levels, looking forward to seeing where NWSL will land on this list next year beyondthe90.substack.com/p/2025-ameri...
Stopkick Murphy
i genuinely think google maps ruined the experience of driving—people think they’re entitled to get places in 21 minutes exactly or whatever the fuck the app says and they plan accordingly. leave a little early! take your time! chill!!!
it occupies a very different slot than any other Polar I've had (except maybe the briefly-lived Dessert Cart pack). I didn't like it at first but once I tweaked my expectations to account for that, it clicked
A six-pack and an example can of Polar Seltzer flavor Brown Sugar Clementine sitting on a butcher block
UNSPONSORED POST: the Brown Sugar Clementine seasonal Polar is a holiday delight, best dessert seltzer I’ve ever had. mix 3-4 parts that and 1 part eggnog (Hood golden, duh) for the easy mocktail of the moment
the Celtics’ own home version of this, next Monday against a conference elite (yes really) in the Pistons, appears to be among the cheapest get-in prices all year. And the only other similarly ”cheap” ones are against, like, the Blazers
NBCS Boston‘s Celtics broadcasters are dunking on Milwaukee Bucks fans for not showing up tonight, but I wonder how these “make-up” games for NBA Cup crashouts might be undermined by being short-notice, unlike the other 80 games of the season
Noah Kahan And Rog Bennett on a stage talking soccer; with a backdrop of Noah standing on the pitch at Stamford Bridge gleefully wearing a beige Chelsea jersey
Tonight I heard Noah Kahan accurately hold the US soccer system to account that we’ll never win a men’s World Cup as long as we rely on pay-to-play academies
very woke take for a Chelsea supporter, love to hear it
you don't need Spotify Wrapped when you have a Last.fm account and can count your play stats across any and all digital streamers to your heart's content!
unexpectedly hearing “Mighty Midshipman” by the late great Centro-matic at the Comm Ave OTTO of all places, extra apropos that we’re pregaming the Fleet match 🏒 🎸
They should do MyChart Wrapped
So @bostonlegacyfc.com just signed BC's Sophia Lowenberg — also the scorer of arguably the best goal scored so far for the @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social women's team. One of the top 5 goals I saw live this year, no joke.
I've been doing freelance/contract work for a while now and would be happy to continue (despite the hike in healthcare costs). But I'm also open to fulltime work for the right fit.
So if you've got a full-time role opening or a short-term project you need extra help for, would love to chat!
my work contracts have mostly wrapped for the year, and I'm taking this extra downtime to reset/rethink what I want to be doing professionally next year (which is to say, I'm job-hunting).
some combination of: FE engineering, design, data, media, and mission-driven advocacy
...Jimmy, justifiably, was standing at the front of his stage gesturing angrily toward the people in Woodstock '69 cosplay to wrap it up already. he spoke for all of us
the one time I saw Jimmy Cliff was at Osheaga 2010, one of those festivals where there's two stages adjacent so you don't lose time to set changeovers. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes were going over their allotted time to play the ~worst song ever made~ and...
I asked google to get scores for today’s UEFA/FIFA matches because there were key men’s World Cup qualifiers in the European region, but it returned AI summaries suggesting there were no such matches
I asked google to get scores for today’s UEFA/FIFA matches because there were key men’s World Cup qualifiers in the European region, but it returned AI summaries suggesting there were no such matches
Google self-sabotaging its own business model/reason for being for this. yep, sure, no important matches in european soccer today
Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Wegmans radio smash of the day is “hands” by the late, great, criminally underrated postpunk band Lithics
for all the talk about the influences of the slacker lofi southern-punk countrygaze of the moment (which I love), oversight that 1990s Modest Mouse never seems to come up
Glitch WAS great for this, alas. I’ve been trying to figure out something like this for a while but every solution I’ve thought of just ends up demanding a certain tech savvy at some point that undermines it.
High-up 3/4 view of Alabama Shakes playing at MGM Music Hall In Boston on 9/15/25
never felt any bit of stage banter the way I felt Brittany Howard say “feel like the median age in this room is 36” tonight
actually switcheroo to the 39 bus where the clientele is multiple Postal Service t-shirts… there’s something to this, anthropologically
post-show Haim Blue Line and post-show MCR Orange Line in the same weekend has been a real unique stretch of MBTA life
