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From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures...

2026-03-06 02:49:44

From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures from the Trump regime’s political appointees. “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team.”

Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard

2026-03-06 01:52:13

After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA; among them:

I also found this version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies:

You can see why people call HyperCard “the web before the web”…it’s all right there.

Also, don’t miss this comment from Keith Dawson (who you may remember from the pioneering tech newsletter Tasty Bits From the Technology Front) on how HyperCard was almost called Wildcard.

Soon after, I took a call from Apple. Would we be willing to give up the name Wildcard, or at least license it for their use on a new product? We discussed it. No.

Wild.

Tags: Apple · Brian Eno · computing · HyperCard · Keith Dawson

Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute...

2026-03-06 00:39:17

Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).

The Four Rules for a Good Walk

2026-03-06 00:00:00

In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable:

In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk that’s as good as a drive or better. What does that mean? It means you need to offer four things simultaneously: there needs to be a proper reason to walk, the walk has to be safe and feel safe, the walk has to be comfortable, and the walk has to be interesting.

I know Speck is talking about cities here, but these four rules — useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting — get at something about living in rural Vermont that I’ve always had trouble articulating: for a place that’s so outdoors-oriented with so many trails and places to hike, a good walk can be difficult to find. I can walk out my door to take a walk that’s sorta safe (walking against traffic on the side of the road — some assholes don’t slow down or move over that much). Comfort is variable: cars kick up dust and my house is surrounded by pretty steep hills. I can’t really walk to anywhere useful, and there aren’t too many possible routes so the interest of the scenery, though beautiful in the summer, gets stale. So then I’m left with driving somewhere to walk, which always just bums me out.

Anyway, this explains why every time I get to walkable city (Tokyo, Rome, NYC, Paris), I am instantly like, yes!! This! This is a walk.

Related reading: Speck is the author of Walkable City (Amazon) and Walkable City Rules (Amazon). (via paul stout)

Tags: books · Jeff Speck · video · Walkable City · Walkable City Rules · walking

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...

2026-03-05 23:18:22

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth: “Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.”

“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...

2026-03-05 22:33:54

“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent way, and the oscillations are formed by sound waves trapped inside the Sun that make it resonate just like a musical instrument.”