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The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer
Gina Trapani Iāve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up. I wondered if...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Link: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA | Official Trailer | In Theaters August 7 My favorite pieces of art make me understand and appreciate things Iāve never cared...
Dashboard Touch
Link: Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID - Anil Dash Anil did a nice job building and publishing a fun project: a DIY Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor...
Diddit
Link: Diddit ā A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone Iāll always be a sucker for great software tools that help people get things done together. Diddit is a new one...
A 2026 detour
Six months ago, life threw me for a loop and I dropped everything. Blogging and coding went out the window, as did social media and any sort of speaking. Doing...
Forevergreen
Link: Forevergreen ā Academy AwardĀ®āNominated Animated Short Film | Now Streaming for a Limited Time This 13-minute animated short film Forevergreen is delightful food for the soul. The filmmakers released...
3D printed whistles
Link: 3D Printed Whistles I got a 3D printer for fun and making stuff and now itās my whole personality. (More on this soon.) It is also an outlet for...
Net fulfillment over net worth
Gina Trapani The most common piece of personal finance advice out there is to āknow your net worthāāthe number that represents your assets minus your liabilities. As a money nerd...
You will die anyway
I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you wonāt have to die. The truth is that you...
Intentions over resolutions, habits over goals
January 1st may be an arbitrary Gregorian boundary condition, but I love an annual moment to take stock and plan change. This year Iām focusing less on resolutions to achieve...
AI CEO
Link: AI CEO (via) AI CEO generates corporate executive thought leadership at the push of a button. āWeāre not destroying habitats, weāre creating urban opportunities for wildlife.ā Tags: #llms #work...
New year, new notebook
Gina Trapani Happy New Year! My favorite January tradition is treating myself to a fresh new notebook. A friend asked our group what our best notebooks are, and that question...
Best things I watched, listened to, and read in 2025
Netflix What do you like, and why do you like it? Personally, I have to practice answering this question. I get influenced by what others like. I have an internal...
Our interfaces have lost their senses
Link: Our interfaces have lost their senses Digital tech has flattened our experience of the world to text under a glass touchscreen, writes Amelia Wattenberger in a beautifully-illustrated essay. We...
The art of KPop Demon Hunters
Link: The Art of KPop Demon Hunters Netflix released 142 gorgeous pages of digital art and behind-the-scenes stories about the making of KPop Demon Hunters, its most-watched film of all...
Be bored
Be bored. Be by yourself. Let your mind wander. Let your imagination breathe and watch what comes. Watch what comes and have the courage and the audacity to just try....
How to fix a typewriter and your life
Link: How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (via) I canāt get this lovely second-half story out of my head: Paul Lundy, a man in his mid-50s, left his...
Weekend computer build
Gina Trapani Last weekendās Black Friday deals lured me to my local computer superstore, where I picked up a bunch of parts, went home, unboxed them all, plugged them into...
Stuff I built just for me in 2025
Itās the easiest itās ever been to make softwareāespecially simple apps, single-serving websites, and scripts. This year Iāve been having a blast programming again and Iāve really embraced the idea:...
High achievers are the most insecure
High achievers are perhaps the most insecure people among us. Competitive people behave the way they do because without those daily victories they struggle to accept themselves. They need constant...