Nabil

You know how people are always like “if libraries didn’t already exist the idea of them would be inconceivable?” What are things we used to have that are like that? Like imagine a gov mandated, ISP funded, free to use YouTube like platform? Crazy, right? That’s: Public Access Cable. We had that!

I don't think I'd even heard of 'The Worst Witch' before just now and I've obviously missed out. Bless you, Tim Curry!

So much good stuff has arrived in HTML that gives us rich functionality for free and Chris helpfully breaks that down for us. chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-...

Bangkok on red alert - All 50 districts of Thailand's capital Bangkok were declared a flood disaster area on Saturday after more than 300 millimetres of rain in less than 48 hours caused widespread flooding. TT: @countrycrazy75 www.thenews.pk/print/143969...

send hugvibes to thousands of folks with flooded homes today in Bangkok took all day and wading through flood waters but i managed to get out and to the airport... where thousands are getting off planes to find a 6hr taxi wait, or take a train to a flooded station, so are just camping here.

in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup

someone cursed on a monkey's paw "i wish gamdev was like the rest of the software industry" and here we are the rest of the industry has caught up

If you’re thinking of someone you haven’t talked with in a while, reach out to let them know, even if it’s just sending a text to say hello. Don’t put it off.

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

Wrote a new post: nadreck.me/2026/09/stil...

David Lynch.

Funny you should say that *whips open meme holster*

Every single part of the entire current digital media landscape was envisioned as part of what was called “blogs” at the start. Tweets, Instagram, reels, sharing your morning run with someone, knowing whether your crush had looked at your story, control over sharing to a community — all of it.

Back in the day, when you pressed a button on a remote control it changed channels instantly. Now, you gotta navigate a labyrinth of menus where each button press takes a second. It's a horrible user experience and everyone... just puts up with it?

"Is there enough work for UX writers?" There will always be enough work. There just aren't enough jobs.

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Reminder: 1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about 2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything 3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere 4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

i just like to repeat every now and then that we shouldn't be releasing election results until we have election results giving out partial vote tallies in whatever order they get counted is misinformation at best and it leads to a certain number of people stress-inducing a bad case of pundit brain

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

It's not untrue, but this feels like such a dystopian way to describe books: "curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” www.404media.co/ai-companies...

“four days behind the thing people are mad about” might be the ideal bluesky experience for these times

Bowling Alone pins the start of the collapse in 1965. the era of third spaces in america is literally exiting living memory. no wonder people think it's mythological.

NEW YORKERS!! This is a great opportunity for anyone already in, or looking to get into public service. Working with a mayor who cares (and who can get things done) is really a once-in-a-career opportunity, and this is a mayor who wants to get things done.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

In 28 years I have never seen the execs of a games company make a decision that made things anything but worse.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

A 5-4 Supreme Court just barely stopped a president from erasing the 14th Amendment by decree. We were one vote away from a very different country, and from upending countless lives in the process.

2026 be like "time for a little retail therapy!" *buys basic food and groceries to live*

I’m very sorry to hear this. One of the most important voices in blogging, tech journalism, and then the wider industry, and always with a conscience, thoughtfulness, and kindness. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

Genie: You have three wishes. Me: I wanna do a perfect Christopher Walken impersonation. Genie: Done. Me: uh-wOw. That was- so... eh...fa-y-st. Like Wo-OW. So, like, I get ehTwo more wIshes? Genie: Hell no, you get that one for free. Me: uh-wOw. Genie: heheh. Me: uh-wOw. Genie: do cowbell

relevant to an email i just got

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

Wrote up some of what I’ve been doing at work: developer.pingidentity.com/blog/docs-fo...

Zelda: Ocarina of Time remaster but it is entirely narrated by Werner Herzog commenting on whatever he sees with no preperation and no context.

There has been a fake BK show listed in Omaha, NE on StubHub. It was never happening but somehow they sold "tickets" at $1000+ a piece to several fans.

This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...

Listening to today's episode (excellent as usual) and they talk about accusations of things written by AI and name a tool I'd not heard of (Pangram). They claim it's pretty reliable. I feed it my piece from @liberalism.org this week that I *know* is human written because *I* wrote it...

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Eveey game trailer with no gameplay should give the budget spent on the trailer to an indy studio to make an actual fucking game.