Good Enough To Call It A Zine, Right? (rwblog S6E14)
Hello! I’ve been pretty busy since the last issue, so this is going to be more of a life update newsletter. If that’s boring come back in two weeks please 🙂...
React and Try Something Different (rwblog S6E13)
A REPL for Writing A possibly-productive metaphor between software engineering and writing: is there a benefit to a faster “REPL loop” in fiction writing? To...
A Giant Continuous Blob of Semantic Functions (rwblog S6E12)
I have had a bad few weeks, I will not pretend otherwise. In lieu of original thoughts, here are some interesting links I’ve found lately. Robin Sloan...
Unsusceptibility to the Illusion is Inherent (rwblog S6E11)
Hello friends. It has been a rough couple weeks for me personally, not to mention, well, the world as a whole. Hopefully you are all staying safe, sane, and...
If You Show Still Frames In Sequence Fast Enough (rwblog S6E10)
Last month I introduced a 500-word cap. I’ll keep the cap and try to make this newsletter biweekly. Let’s go! Communities of Practice Recently I’ve been...
Once The Canadians In The Audience Recover From Their Shock… (rwblog S6E9)
New experiment: to keep this newsletter fairly lightweight — easy to write, easy to read — I’m going to try capping it at about 500 words. So here goes!...
There’s Probably a Metaphor for Business Leadership or Scientific Research in Here (rwblog S6E8)
Currently listening to: The Loveliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen1 Aight this is a short one — buckle up. Calendrical and Cartographic Thinking It’s a well-known...
A Very Confusing System Built Out Of Logical Components (rwblog S6E7)
Currently listening to: Endless Summer, Fennesz Hello from a very windy, and not particularly summery, San Francisco. Was it always this windy in San...
As Promised, A Very Dumb Frog (rwblog S6E6)
Currently listening to: Orbvm Terrarvm, The Orb1 This issue is an old-school linkblog. Not a whole lot of thoughts on my end, just a lot of web bricolage....
Did you know stone fruit like peaches and plums are coming into season this month? (rwblog S6E5)
Currently listening to: 10,000 gecs, 100 gecs I recently realized that instead of trying to actually think of topics, I can just look at all the Obsidian...
Eh, It Wasn’t Worth Celebrating Anyway (rwblog S6E4)
So, I completely missed March, did I? Oh well, nobody really needed March anyway — certainly, Julius Caesar won’t miss it. I’m writing to you here, from the...
In Which I Wax Nostalgic for My Lost Youth (rwblog S6E3)
Let’s get right in to the meaty content! “photo of a shrine to guanyin at dawn”, Stable Diffusion1 In Which I Wax Nostalgic for My Lost Youth Hello from the...
A Cobbled-Together Frankenstein of Fragments (rwblog S6E2)
Hello all and welcome back to rwblog. This time I’m revealing my top 10 books and top 5 films of 2022. I was intending to write longer essays for each of...
You Might Not Think You Need A Milk Frother... (rwblog S6E1)
Welcome Hello, one and all! Welcome to season 6 of rwblog, formerly known as Applied Dilletantery! Why a new season? I want to bring this newsletter back to...
Monthly Changelog (Sep 2022)
Hello friendos! General Site Updates I’ve added a bookmarks page to collect a few of my favorite talks, articles, etc. I cleaned up the site taxonomy a bit...
Monthly Changelog (Aug 2022)
Hey all, here's what's new on rwblickhan.org this month! General Site Updates I cleaned up the site taxonomy a bit. It's now (mostly) cleanly separated...
Analyzing and Synthesizing Thinking Styles
I recommend reading this article on my website! Lately, I’ve been thinking about two thinking styles, which we could call analyzing and synthesizing....
Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
This is another fairly technical post, and in particular presupposes some enthusiasm for the command line. If that isn’t you, feel free to skip this one!...
How I Built It: rwblickhan.org (2022)
Hey folks! This is a fairly technical newsletter about how I built the latest iteration of my personal website. If that doesn’t interest you, feel free to...
rwblog: Tools for 2022
Hey folks, in the spirit of “what’s in your bag,” I wanted to do a quick (and by quick I apparently mean 2,600+ word) overview of the tools I use every day...
