May 28, 2025

Summer Purge and Fantasy Cities

Hey friends,

What do you do on a long weekend when trapped inside by rain?

You make bread. (Not a joke this time, but an actuality).

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Thinking Too Hard 🤔

What are some things about your daily life that you've stopped taking a good look at?

Your desk? Your living room furniture? What you're carrying in the bottom of your backpack? All the things we interact with constantly but don't really LOOK at.

The changing of the seasons reminds me to take stock of what's doing good work, and what could be better — a Summer Purge! GitHub tells me I haven't updated my editor setup in about a year. It's time to tip it over and see if what I've got in there needs revitalizing.

Is there an area in your daily life that could use a Summer Purge?

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Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Chris K W does a deep dive on a fascinating fractal.
• Dustin Curtis talks about LLMs have made him both more knowledgeable and duller at the same time.
• 90s.dev is a retrofuturistic game development platform that runs entirely on the web.

Other Stuff

• You like maps? Well, check out this fantasy city generator.
• RIP Pocket. We will remember you and the dozens of unread articles we left behind...
• We had curation BEFORE the internet, maybe we need curation now more than ever.