Hey friends,

I burned my Hawaiian pizza this weekend.

I should have used aloha temperature.

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

How do we keep our own original opinions in a time where robots are more than happy to think for us?

Just like we began 'working out' our bodies when modern convenience made life physically easier, we're now in an age of mental convenience, and we'll have to do the same for our brains. Cal Newport prescribes reading, writing, and self-reflecting as a regimen:

"We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect." – Cal Newport

The easiest of those is reading. Not reading like when we were in school (bleh), but things that interest you or capture your imagination! What if instead of scrolling through video feeds when we're feeling bored, we cracked open a book?

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• David Bushell chases the rabbit pretty far of building a text editor.
• Derek Comartin helps us remember five decisions that make a system difficult to change.
• So you're telling me my TV is part of the AI scraper swarm...?
• Are you bug blind? Dan Luu thinks you might be.
• Cuelume is a tiny little sound library with all effects generated live with the Web Audio API.

Other Stuff

• Gina Trapani talks about the joy of 3D printing your own stuff.
• Do the robots sound like us or are we starting to sound like the robots?. As a bonus jewel, read this fascinating short story from 2012, the Whispering Earring.
• Jim theorizes some better experience metrics than icons. I, personally, would like the "I enjoyed this one thing but don't flood me with this genre" option.

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• 👽 Congrats to Dawn, inaugural winner of the Fat Marmot Week.
• 👽 For those times you wanted to pretend to be on a plane for a full duration flight.
• 👽 They named a newly discovered fish after Mr. Snuffleupagus.
• 📺 Watch them make these hydraulic tiles, like they make in Spain in the 1850's.