just had a flashback to developing code for netvibes

spotify sucks but also, i want to just call out that maybe the most minor and surprising personal growth development in my lifetime has been my complete 180 on "New Age"/Elevator Music from when i was a kid to now. like, i absolutely scorned anything pure-moods adjacent back then and now i absolutely seek it out because it feels like it's doing something genuinely novel in much the same way idm/jungle felt when i first heard them in the mid 90s

honestly kinda ridiculous the number of things i have pirated just so i can screenshot them

Sunshine (2007) director, danny boyle. screenwriter, alex garland.

there’s something about the production of All I Want For Christmas Is You, the crispy drums, the kind of oppressive 4/4 beat paired with a kind of bittersweet cheer that, and this is the part i haven’t investigated too closely, _always_ reminds me of the theme music for Red Dwarf

been listening to it for over a decade and just realized this week that it's not saying "takin' over" or, like, it is, it is saying that, but the song is called technova and it's also saying that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq66jYoFx_c

this new boiler room overmono set is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJBhezlMoE

not sure if it’s just i’m using an old version, but swc turning [...iter] into [].concat(iter) just absolutely is the wrong transform if iter is a js iterator, not sure why it didn’t choose Array.from(iter)

something i think about a lot is this ui thing where people have basically decided that anything greater than, i dunno, ten items is impossible to display or arrange in any meaningful way so instead we’ll use search or ai + search or some mcguffin instead of trying to solve that problem.

there’s an implicit assumption that any search will winnow the collection to some manageable size where now you can paw at it like a monkey. but if your collection is large enough, you still have to look through a lot of things in some order without any useful facets to filter or group on or what have you.

“everything apps” (and operating systems like macos and ios) have this problem and just kick the can down the road seemingly forever and the real drag is that the design conventions seems to follow suit instead of innovating here.

nearly every single Ask Vanessa segment in the nyt has somebody tacitly asking permission to flaunt some sartorial norm, but my favorite detail is that the 'advice' is nearly always "oh yeah, that sure is a thing that happens!" which is followed by some minor meditations on the norm's history ending with some version of "lol there are no rules, you do you!"

rereading this and having a real RETVRN moment for music blogs of the 2010s http://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-paths-to-graceland/

i get that there's a sort of unfortunate necessity to product-ify most hobby stuff into 'portfolio work', but i still recoil at seeing a one-person project having too-polished of a landing page because having been on all sides of something like that, i know how that sort of vibe can quickly turn a fun from a fun design marketing exercise to an obligation to a burden, even before you've shipped the thing, to say nothing of having a single user opening bug reports against your hobby.

somewhere, somebody is regularly compromising ios with a series of high value zero-days in order to change the !! notification reaction sound to goofy saying gawrsh.

Found this

i want to meet whatever engineer worked on music.app's Recently Added view or the pm that assigned them the tasks for this release. just an utterly baffling regression.

second #pico8 reference of #strangeloop in https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/playable-quotes-for-game-boy-games.html

i’ll see you at stacycon ‘94 (strange loop 2023) at the san diego (st louis) airport hilton (union station hotel) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHRSM2wa24

nobody cared who i was until i put on the mask!

sesame street s50e14, the one where abby and rudy become graphic designers

reopening tiktok and rewatching old favorites