There was a time

On the shelf in my bedroom, there is a plant that looks like the result of someone uprooting a couple blades of grass from her lawn, punching it into her computer monitor, and changing the font setting from 11 point to 72 point. Protruding out of the soil are 5 green blades draped with a…

Going for walks is a different experience during the coronavirus pandemic. Beforehand, it was something I did on the days when I didn’t quite feel up to going to the gym. Now I use walks as replacements for gym workouts because shared indoor spaces have become dangerous. Last summer, I would keep the socially normal…

Yesterday Elon Musk’s company Neuralink livestreamed a demo of their brain implant project, demonstrating live visualizations of brain activity in pigs. I’m not a neuroscientist and I’m interested to hear what someone with those qualifications thought of the presentation, but to me it seems like this could revolutionize some areas of medicine and help us…

(It’s listicle time!) 10. Shovel Knight Shovel Night has gorgeous pixel art, unabashedly retro chiptunes, and inventive platforming gameplay. I also see it as a trailblazer for a batch of indie games that reached the mainstream this decade. 9. Hearthstone Hearthstone encapsulates the joy of trading cards brands like magic and pokemon into an addictive…

A couple months ago I discovered an android terminal emulator named Termux by developer Fredrik Fornwall. I was surprised to learn that it ran a full linux environment on my phone. The selling point for me in Termux’s play store description was the bullet “Develop in C with clang, make and gdb.” I don’t have…