Currently reading: The Once and Future King by T. H. White 📚 I am only four chapters into this book I know NOTHING about, and it’s funny and wonderfully written. I cannot wait to see where this goes.

I am drooling over Good Made Better’s book warden and book weights. 📚 I didn’t know book weights were a thing, and the book warden is a brilliant solution to a problem I’ve always had (read: toting around too many books wherever I go).

Alvaro Montoro’s 100 days of CSS illustrations is so cool. Not only because she’s a good illustrator, but she can turn that into CSS, and that CSS can do that. It’s wild.

Maggie Appleton’s article on home-cooked softwares and barefoot developers is sooo interesting. As a designer who enjoys development but lacks the time, I’m stoked that I could actually develop apps that my family can use without having to go to a coding bootcamp or take a sabbatical.

So I read parts of Cixin Liu’s sci-fi anthology Wandering Earth. 📚 Fantastic, but I noticed some funny things:

• He hates Australia
• The sun is the enemy
• He thinks religion would disappear overnight by happening (doubtful)
• World government is GOOD and WORKS (also doubtful)

Still, 10/10.

My wife has no interest in Godzilla movies, but she walked in while I was watching Godzilla: Minus One and actually stuck around. 🎥 I loved the movie, and was so happy about [redacted] surviving to the end.

Okay, I just watched Jaws for the first time 🎥 and HOLY COW it holds up! The mayor! Quint’s speech! Richard Dreyfuss! And the dialogue—I loved how natural it felt, capturing fun banter and awkward moments. What a fun movie. And to think it was Spielberg’s first big break! (What a talent.)

I recently watched Mary and the Witch’s Flower from Studio Ponoc. 🎥 Charming movie. Two questions:

1. How did Mary and her grandmother both give up magic so easily? Proximity to hubris?
2. Fascinating how science and magic are so closely linked in the movie. C.S. Lewis (I believe) thought the same

Janet Vertesi, The Encyclopedia Project, Or How to Know in the Age of AI:

In the meanwhile, I’m reading the encyclopedia. And I’m enjoying the astonishing novelty of perusing otherwise hotly divisive topics absent the familiar sense of being inflated with rage. If not for Kung Fu Panda, I would never have realized—after 30 years of surfing the information superhighway—that it was possible to feel so, well, informed.