16: Speakeasy and programing social networks

April 21, 2020

One of the most fun technical challenges of building the new hyperlink.academy website has been integrating it with Discourse. I've talked a couple times in...

15: Making an Ebook and Exploring Urbit

April 14, 2020

One of the my pleasures these past couple weeks have been videos like this one from J Kenji Lopez-Alt. It's incredibly soothing watching someone do something...

14: Databases, Maps, and Manuals

April 7, 2020

Here's that image I promised. I cheated a bit, as Celine made it, but I'm gonna use it anyway cause I love it. It's going into hyperlink.academy v2 as the...

13: Imagining new learning technologies

March 31, 2020

Things for an introverted, veteran-wfh-er are pretty much business as usual. If anything I've been getting more social interaction because of all the zoom...

12: Creativity in Crisis

March 24, 2020

It feels like a weird time to be writing a newsletter. But it also feels pretty essential that I keep doing so. One of the first things I retweeted since...

11: Trying out some structure

March 17, 2020

I spent the last week out in the finger lakes region of New York, hanging out with my family. I’m feeling really lucky we got a chance to spend that time...

10: The Tortoise and Hare both win

March 10, 2020

So. I refactored my website again. Y'all are the first to know! In short, I separated out "fast" and "slow" content. Fast content is something I write once...

9: Digital Housekeeping and Homesteading

March 3, 2020

Today I was cleaning up my computer. I had an old org-mode file that I used to store links in, and I needed to transfer them over to pinboard. I could've...

8: Indexes, Games, and Hyperlink.academy V2

February 25, 2020

Forgive me. If I were feeling better I would've written a shorter letter. Hi y'all. I spent a chunk of last week sick, and I'm still finding myself...

7: An internet barkeep and a blogchain bookclub

February 18, 2020

One the little things I started late last year was a forum. I launched it right before heading off on a family roadtrip, without a very clear picture of what...

6: A bit of betting

February 11, 2020

Hi all! Apologies for the mess of last weeks newsletter which featured (at last count) two sentences that just ended unfinished and two different...

5: Gamedevs do it better

February 4, 2020

For a couple weeks now I’ve been commuting to a coworking space instead of just working from home, which has given me a chance to finally give podcasts a...

4: A Magical Spell

January 28, 2020

Hi y’all. This is a (late) issue of Warm Regards, a short newsletter where I talk about technology and learning and probably digital notetaking systems....

3: Growing Schools

January 21, 2020

Hi all! Welcome to the third edition of A Warm Newsletter, which is harder and harder to produce as it gets colder here in Brooklyn. But here it is! Last...

2: Tools and Schools

January 14, 2020

Hello! Welcome to the second issue a small newsletter where I talk about learning and technology. I spent much of this week trying to extract my mind from...

1: High and low

January 6, 2020

Hi all, Bear with me as I try and get used to this newsletter writing, it'll take some experimenting. A silly editor Over the holidays I've been hacking away...