Josh Horowitz

ashes to ashes, dollars to donuts

Bewildered by the naming of the WA 'Millionaires Tax'… It's a tax on INCOME over $1M, not WEALTH over $1M! Plenty of businesspeople, doctors, engineers etc. hold over $1M and qualify as 'millionaires'. Only a tiny fraction make $1M in income. Is the name going to make dentists vote against the tax?

Fusion Q: Why does pressing "enter" a bunch and seeing lock icons not not result in a rectangle with constrained dimensions?

I'm thinking of becoming a thought leader in the field of design, wdyt

I just really crave good tech criticism, where by good, I mean they're always right, they're never disproven by future developments, and they agree with me about everything

Animated a figure from an old programming-by-demonstration paper :)

the easiest way to get to this document is through my website, so I just download it every time. this is interesting. should my local file storage be more like a website? or is there a way of accessing this thing on the web that feels less like "downloading"?

I AM CHANGING THE NATURE OF HUMANITY....INTO FUN!!!

San Francisco's a pretty crazy place.

The verses in "Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying" follow a really simple prosody and then in the third verse they hit you with: Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all From where I'm sitting, rain Falling against the lonely tenement Has set my mind to wander IDK why but it takes my breath away.

BART timed transfers in Oakland are a wonder.

In SF, hmu

There are just three days left to submit to LIVE (we have extended the deadline to the 28th!) If you're looking for thoughtful feedback on new, experimental programming systems, please do consider submitting! Submissions can be short papers, web essays with embedded videos, or a demo video.

just realized that I type "x" with my left index finger, resulting in a much larger hand motion than for any other letter. (I type "z" with my left ring finger.)

design venting: Spotify made the top result of a search (1) look different than all the other results, (2) have a faded-out background so it looks especially irrelevant / skippable, (3) have its play button on the right side instead of the left, just to make sure your muscle memory is defeated.

Strava on Android randomly closes when I'm recording an activity and doesn't record until I reopen it. I have all the battery things turned to "please don't close this". What do I do. 🥺

I'm in NYC next week. Anyone know any good people/places/things there? (More specifically, good things for meeeeee?)

"Museum exhibit" is an immersive, architectural medium. Most art in museums isn't native to this medium. It's transplanted via hermetic enclosures: frames on walls, plexiglass boxes on pedestals. "Installation art" really just means art meant for this medium, art that knows it's in a museum.

Me literally every day

idk why he had to stand waist-deep in an especially constructed manhole but I can relate

"It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time" has quickly risen to a key position in my personal canon: drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oa...

This was a really fun project that came together beautifully. Great work @spiralganglion.com & co.! Here are two letters I made the night before the due date:

Found in "Thinking Physics". Was Epstein very wrong or very silly? (FWIW, there IS an etymological connection here! "Calculus" comes from "calx", Latin for limestone. Then you use that to describe counting with stones, and weird rocky build-ups in the body.)

If you're a saxophone/EDM band in the year 2014 looking for a name, I recommend "Serengetidipitous".

@notion.com indented list spacing rn fr

All your life, You were only waiting for the snowman to arrive.

Recurring pattern in math: embed X inside some kind of (X → Y) → Y (via the eval. map X → (X → Y) → Y), and then expand your view to more points of the codomain – "virtual elements of X": - distributions - Stone–Čech compactification - metric completion - continuations Q: More examples? A name?

When there's a song on an album that has the same name as the album and there's a moment in the song when they say the name of the song (which is also the name of the album), it's very powerful. It feels like ley lines converging.

I think there's a widespread issue where people map their experience interpreting poll numbers – 53% means you're probably going to win, 25% means no way in hell – onto prediction market odds – 53% means it's a coin flip, 25% means it's two coin flips. Maybe they'll figure it out eventually? 🤷

It should be illegal to refer to a version of macOS by anything other than a number.

You would think that internalizing a cutting critic of your own work and personality would help you get by in life but I haven't found this to be the case. 🤔

about to grab some lunch

unremittingly obsessed with Luca Tóth's "Vegan Mayo" after seeing it last weekend at @seasluganimation.bsky.social. it's a real novelty for me to have something stuck in my head and no way to relive it on demand! watching weird short films at festivals gives a rare taste of media scarcity. love it.

I gotta do something about my doomstrolling

Boston-area mutuals: I'll be giving the MIT HCI seminar this Tuesday at 4PM. I've got some open time on Wednesday morning—DM me if you'd like to chat! 👋

Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard? We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype. Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!

someone made a webpage where the scrollbar is a little worm that does a scrunchy caterpillar walk when you scroll, and contents expand and contract accordingly. I love it but I can't find it anymore. anyone got a link? (it might have had some "would you still love me if I was a worm" branding?)

I don't like cover pages on my PDFs so I made a li'l program to strip them from PDFs in my Zotero library uvx no-more-cover-pages github.com/joshuahhh/no-more-cover-pages/

"I'm not going to the party tonight." Normal person → "Same." New thing I'm doing → "Neither."

Buds coming out. Feels good. Fuck ICE.

Big divide forming between social UIs where time goes down and social UIs where time goes up. You need to decide which side you are on. You can't be neutral on a moving train.

very interested in this fold rn