Colocating your pytest fixtures
pytest is, in many ways, the Age of Adz of the broader Python ecosystem: a rewarding idiosyncratic departure from convention whose quirks and foibles are...
Secret Mall Apartment
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The Rehearsal (Season 2)
It's useful and fitting that yesterday I wrote, in reference to Secret Mall Apartment:
Black Bag
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
Howard
One of the many goals of a strong brand is to subsume the work of every individual who contributes to that brand into the Gestalt. wardrobes are designed by...
Conclave
I briefly and incorrectly thought that Conclave was a serious film in the style of, say, The Young Pope. This is not the case. The plot is deeply unserious,...
Before Sunrise
I watched Before Sunrise for the first time around a decade ago, and I appreciated it then for what it was on the surface: a straightforwardly terrific and...
Slacker
Inspired by my rewatch of Before Sunrise, I decided to turn on Slacker, which was Linklater's directorial debut, and considered a gem in its own right. It is...
My approach to GTD and PKM
One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things...
Consider the data product
The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is evergreen:
Monster Sanctuary
Here's the rough pitch on Monster Sanctuary:
Notebook as marketing primitive
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful...
Meta's two assets
(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and...
Projects are things with steps
Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked so frequently that I decided to write about it.
Liberal Arts
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Goodwill
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Ashland, 2025
Trundle is not quite the right word. When I hear trundle, I think of layers, of wool and dampness, of hitting the road before the sun does, wrapped in a...
The Bourne Legacy
At this point, Tony Gilroy is probably best known for a different project—one where he uses the trappings of a beloved IP to Trojan-horse his ideas and sharp...
Broadcast News
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What follows GitHub?
It seems fairly clear that, as far as product lifecycle goes, GitHub is in its “Azure metered billing” stage. I don’t mean this as a negative value judgment...