Me and the frozen pizza in my microwave

Defuddle now has a website!

This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format.

You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

Do your part 🙂‍↔️

Wishing you an awesome trip!

Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

Yayyyy! Well deserved!

An LLM is like having an overconfident intern with infinite capacity for work. The mistake is thinking you can replace experienced employees with it but it’s a force multiplier if well supervised.

AGI will be like an experienced coworker with infinite capacity. At that point, we will need new jobs.

i hate to do one of these, but i was just thinking about how if Walt Disney built Disneyland today, Main Street would be the nostalgic 1980s

i kind of want that. kind of

Finally! 😂

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...

this may brighten your day tbh

Happiest of Happy Birthdays, @stinkstankstunk.bsky.social !

the whole plate is nice but u can tell what was the artists true passion lol

Happy Birthday, my awesome friend!!!

Thank you so much! I am not enthused about my mileage on these trips around the sun, but so incredibly lucky to have amazing friends and family!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

The frame is dominated by the burning sun, a mass of swirling inferno. In the bottom half of the picture, the silhouette of the ISS is clearly visible. Photo credit to Andrew McCarthy.

What an incredible photo.

On Sunday, astro-photographer Andrew McCarthy captured the moment the International Space Station passed across our sun.

Awww the purring when he realized. Poor guy. Sharing the hopes for continued quick healing and insurance coming through!

Just catching up on your thread, and I am so glad he's home and on the mend. What a rough day for you all. May the antibiotics make him fully recovered quickly!

Never too late, friendo and it was a delightful read, as expected -- thank you!

Now that ruffle.rs is so good, I am starting to consider switching back to Flash for prototyping and procedural art.

My 10-year old Unity games don't run at all. My 20-year old Flash games run better than ever.

And the Flash APIs were *so good* for games. They put Canvas / SVG / DOM to shame.

Very cool! Penn & Teller?

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: "If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s." You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

File over app · 2023
stephango.com/file-over-app

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

Nope!

Dang... Fitness > Sessions > Date > Outdoor Walk > Heart Rate?

“I was trying to describe you to someone” from Brautigan’s “revenge of the lawn”

This is my all time favorite piece of short fiction and I really encourage taking the brief moment it takes to read it. It so beautifully captures time, place, and feeling

Okay, I'm just going to come out & say it: I don't know why no one ever discusses this publicly because I feel like deep down, we all know that this is absolutely true but can someone PLEASE explain to me why I've never seen anyone discussing how spectacular pelicans would be at trick-or-treating?

I definitely did not anticipate the number of likes this post would receive.