Posts in 2022

• Superheroes create cultural acceptance for popular oligarchy
  11.00, Monday 3 Jan 2022 (streak: 93 weeks)
  1,263 words, 10 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022

• Filtered for deep time and stories from space
  21.33, Wednesday 5 Jan 2022 (streak: 93 weeks)
  884 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: comets, filtered-for, speculative-in-2022, the-ancient-world-is-now

• A potential escape from Roko’s basilisk
  21.22, Friday 7 Jan 2022 (streak: 93 weeks)
  1,040 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, speculative-in-2022

• A special suit for thinking like a winter’s day and other psychoactive uniforms
  20.28, Wednesday 12 Jan 2022 (streak: 94 weeks)
  1,174 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• Artist patronage using Web3: a sketch of a payment mechanism
  19.34, Friday 14 Jan 2022 (streak: 94 weeks)
  2,517 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: web3

• A meander through Martian minutes and the meaning of local time
  19.43, Tuesday 18 Jan 2022 (streak: 95 weeks)
  1,110 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, 5-most-popular-in-2022

• Designing multiplayer apps with patterns from architecture
  21.10, Friday 21 Jan 2022 (streak: 95 weeks)
  1,359 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, metaverse, multiplayer

• Who can be the Netflix of ghost kitchens?
  20.05, Monday 24 Jan 2022 (streak: 96 weeks)
  975 words, 6 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• Soviet vs Western approaches to laundry, 100 years ago
  22.06, Wednesday 26 Jan 2022 (streak: 96 weeks)
  1,070 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: laundry

• Morning notes
  10.22, Friday 28 Jan 2022 (streak: 96 weeks)
  874 words, 6 links

• Filtered for blue in history
  20.05, Monday 31 Jan 2022 (streak: 97 weeks)
  787 words, 9 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, kinda-about-colour, sound-and-music

• Maybe buying and selling colours isn’t entirely nonsense
  21.00, Tuesday 1 Feb 2022 (streak: 97 weeks)
  1,304 words, 5 links
  Tagged: kinda-about-colour

• The ancient Thames
  15.45, Friday 4 Feb 2022 (streak: 97 weeks)
  597 words, 5 links
  Tagged: in-our-time-episode-mentions

• Singularities and jackpots and fugues
  21.00, Wednesday 9 Feb 2022 (streak: 98 weeks)
  1,634 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: comets, eschatology

• Playing board games, thinking about Excel: Wingspan Edition
  18.06, Friday 11 Feb 2022 (streak: 98 weeks)
  1,315 words, 8 links

• What a neighbourhood bank is, 2022 edition
  17.54, Monday 14 Feb 2022 (streak: 99 weeks)
  1,108 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: hooray-for-qr-codes

• A 1970s plan about how to reach Barnard’s Star
  21.53, Tuesday 15 Feb 2022 (streak: 99 weeks)
  1,403 words, 6 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: space, speculative-in-2022

• Metaverse got torment-nexused just as robot did a century before
  14.46, Friday 18 Feb 2022 (streak: 99 weeks)
  808 words, 6 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, metaverse, robots

• Filtered for hundreds and hundreds
  21.33, Monday 21 Feb 2022 (streak: 100 weeks)
  790 words, 7 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• That time I got chased by a hippopotamus
  19.19, Tuesday 22 Feb 2022 (streak: 100 weeks)
  369 words, no links

• We could be inventing new wheels with weird new physics
  20.22, Wednesday 2 Mar 2022 (streak: 101 weeks)
  1,152 words, 6 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, speculative-in-2022

• Formative experiences of read-write science
  20.52, Friday 4 Mar 2022 (streak: 101 weeks)
  770 words, 10 links

• Filtered for animal news
  13.20, Wednesday 9 Mar 2022 (streak: 102 weeks)
  853 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: dolphins, filtered-for, speculative-in-2022

• Vibe shifts in the Upper Anthropocene
  18.20, Friday 11 Mar 2022 (streak: 102 weeks)
  1,347 words, 10 links
  Has 6 follow-up posts
  Tagged: comets, eschatology, vibe-is-real

• Workplace serendipity, invention, and lessons from Prohibition 1920-1933
  19.20, Monday 14 Mar 2022 (streak: 103 weeks)
  726 words, 5 links
  Tagged: multiplayer, speculative-in-2022

• One day we’ll need anti-spam for coercive synthesised voices
  19.59, Wednesday 16 Mar 2022 (streak: 103 weeks)
  690 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• Robots for folding laundry at home: two approaches
  20.17, Tuesday 22 Mar 2022 (streak: 104 weeks)
  517 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: laundry, robots

• The unbearable lightness of my pockets
  20.22, Monday 28 Mar 2022 (streak: 105 weeks)
  1,141 words, 4 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022

• I don’t believe in Zoom fatigue. HOWEVER…
  21.37, Tuesday 29 Mar 2022 (streak: 105 weeks)
  1,472 words, 6 links
  Tagged: metaverse

• Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
  20.56, Tuesday 5 Apr 2022 (streak: 106 weeks)
  1,693 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, 5-most-popular-in-2022, multiplayer

• Filtered for machine misunderstandings
  07.32, Monday 11 Apr 2022 (streak: 107 weeks)
  873 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, filtered-for

• How about twice yearly MRIs for a personal Check Engine light
  13.30, Thursday 14 Apr 2022 (streak: 107 weeks)
  842 words, 1 link
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: political-fantasies

• Day 1 notes from picking up a modern VR headset
  19.47, Wednesday 20 Apr 2022 (streak: 108 weeks)
  1,899 words, 5 links
  Has 6 follow-up posts

• Apple is mainstreaming the inventions of Alan Kay. Maybe the metaverse is next
  21.26, Monday 25 Apr 2022 (streak: 109 weeks)
  2,130 words, 15 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, computing-history, metaverse, multiplayer

• Thinking about the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks
  21.34, Wednesday 27 Apr 2022 (streak: 109 weeks)
  725 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts

• Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable
  18.18, Friday 29 Apr 2022 (streak: 109 weeks)
  1,955 words, 12 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: multiplayer, web3

• Presence in VR should show tiny people, not user avatars
  19.12, Tuesday 3 May 2022 (streak: 110 weeks)
  1,396 words, 11 links
  Tagged: metaverse, multiplayer

• I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs
  19.33, Thursday 5 May 2022 (streak: 110 weeks)
  944 words, 4 links

• Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons
  20.52, Monday 9 May 2022 (streak: 111 weeks)
  1,404 words, 12 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: multiplayer

• Signs of a magnetic pole flip in company ownership
  16.13, Thursday 12 May 2022 (streak: 111 weeks)
  1,383 words, 19 links
  Tagged: political-fantasies

• Lightbulbs were so startup
  18.40, Wednesday 18 May 2022 (streak: 112 weeks)
  774 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, 5-most-popular-in-2022

• The web3 world computer is at a 1970 level of development
  13.12, Friday 20 May 2022 (streak: 112 weeks)
  1,814 words, 13 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, web3

• Alternative epistemic agents for restaurant menus etc
  19.44, Tuesday 24 May 2022 (streak: 113 weeks)
  1,303 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• Filtered for ownership
  19.48, Thursday 26 May 2022 (streak: 113 weeks)
  981 words, 11 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for, gpt-3

• The apps I use to read and write for this blog
  20.20, Friday 27 May 2022 (streak: 113 weeks)
  1,167 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, meta

• In which Beat Saber does odd things to my head
  21.16, Tuesday 31 May 2022 (streak: 114 weeks)
  815 words, 4 links

• Adobe should make a boring app for prompt engineers
  19.51, Thursday 2 Jun 2022 (streak: 114 weeks)
  2,236 words, 16 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, gpt-3, speculative-in-2022

• Idle thoughts sitting by the pool in the hot sun
  11.09, Thursday 9 Jun 2022 (streak: 115 weeks)
  1,120 words, 3 links

• A series of tubes
  18.52, Thursday 16 Jun 2022 (streak: 116 weeks)
  635 words, 7 links
  Tagged: laundry, robots

• Filtered for glimpses of almost-humans from prehistory
  09.32, Wednesday 22 Jun 2022 (streak: 117 weeks)
  1,376 words, 13 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, speculative-in-2022, the-ancient-world-is-now

• Don’t keep your eye on the ball but prime your intuition
  17.20, Friday 1 Jul 2022 (streak: 118 weeks)
  1,454 words, 3 links

• A love note to British hedges
  12.48, Wednesday 6 Jul 2022 (streak: 119 weeks)
  1,291 words, 8 links
  Tagged: in-our-time-episode-mentions, speculative-in-2022, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now

• I imagine cave paintings as ancient virtual reality
  11.51, Monday 11 Jul 2022 (streak: 120 weeks)
  1,016 words, 3 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now

• When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers
  20.16, Tuesday 12 Jul 2022 (streak: 120 weeks)
  1,252 words, 16 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: dolphins

• Training my sense of CO2 ppm
  11.48, Thursday 14 Jul 2022 (streak: 120 weeks)
  1,157 words, 9 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, 5-most-popular-in-2022, esoteric-supersenses

• The sinister blue sky
  19.41, Monday 18 Jul 2022 (streak: 121 weeks)
  648 words, 6 links
  Tagged: kinda-about-colour

• Filtered for supersenses
  20.41, Wednesday 27 Jul 2022 (streak: 122 weeks)
  875 words, 8 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: esoteric-supersenses, filtered-for

• The Prompt Whisperer
  20.22, Thursday 4 Aug 2022 (streak: 123 weeks)
  3,685 words, no links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, fiction, gpt-3

• I’m speaking at a couple of events over the next few weeks
  14.14, Monday 8 Aug 2022 (streak: 124 weeks)
  338 words, 3 links
  Tagged: meta

• Who could write protocol fiction for speculative infrastructure?
  15.45, Thursday 11 Aug 2022 (streak: 124 weeks)
  1,400 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, political-fantasies

• The shock and awe of state-sponsored women’s fashion
  20.10, Tuesday 16 Aug 2022 (streak: 125 weeks)
  1,207 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• How to mobilise the UK for wind power
  16.42, Friday 26 Aug 2022 (streak: 126 weeks)
  899 words, 4 links
  Tagged: political-fantasies

• What I have to say about carbon accounting in web browsers will shock you
  19.39, Thursday 1 Sep 2022 (streak: 127 weeks)
  1,352 words, 13 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022

• What makes a brick wall?
  08.40, Friday 9 Sep 2022 (streak: 128 weeks)
  506 words, no links

• I hope libraries are snapshotting today’s awkwardly sourced AIs
  19.53, Thursday 15 Sep 2022 (streak: 129 weeks)
  1,138 words, 8 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• The Queue is pilgrimage
  10.32, Friday 16 Sep 2022 (streak: 129 weeks)
  849 words, 8 links

• Filtered for escaping the simulation
  10.03, Thursday 22 Sep 2022 (streak: 130 weeks)
  1,431 words, 10 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: filtered-for, teeny-weeny-virtual-worlds

• We are already midway through exploring the galaxy (probably)
  12.16, Thursday 29 Sep 2022 (streak: 131 weeks)
  1,737 words, 11 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: space, speculative-in-2022

• Basic mental arithmetic for activity and weight
  19.05, Tuesday 4 Oct 2022 (streak: 132 weeks)
  688 words, no links

• I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
  20.39, Monday 10 Oct 2022 (streak: 133 weeks)
  1,417 words, 11 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022, 5-most-popular-in-2022, sound-and-music

• Filtered for the miracle of writing
  22.10, Wednesday 12 Oct 2022 (streak: 133 weeks)
  1,010 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: filtered-for, writing-about-writing

• 1,000 shops in your pocket
  21.13, Tuesday 18 Oct 2022 (streak: 134 weeks)
  1,157 words, 8 links

• Thinking about design pathfinding, which is a bit inside-baseball but forgive me
  16.18, Thursday 20 Oct 2022 (streak: 134 weeks)
  564 words, 2 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts

• Hey I’m passing through San Francisco next week
  17.30, Friday 21 Oct 2022 (streak: 134 weeks)
  368 words, 2 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: meta

• Let me recruit AI teammates into Figma
  01.44, Wednesday 26 Oct 2022 (streak: 135 weeks)
  1,215 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: multiplayer, speculative-in-2022

• The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
  18.13, Thursday 3 Nov 2022 (streak: 136 weeks)
  646 words, 1 link

• These robot legs are made for walkin’ me to the shops
  17.08, Friday 4 Nov 2022 (streak: 136 weeks)
  1,037 words, 9 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• The Minecraft generation meets property law and AI-synthesised landscapes
  14.49, Tuesday 8 Nov 2022 (streak: 137 weeks)
  1,213 words, 9 links

• Mapping everything I’ve written about the multiplayer web
  15.32, Wednesday 9 Nov 2022 (streak: 137 weeks)
  608 words, 4 links
  Has 8 follow-up posts
  Tagged: meta, multiplayer

• Filtered for ears
  16.17, Thursday 17 Nov 2022 (streak: 138 weeks)
  677 words, 10 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Microdosing cathedrals and the synthetic acoustic environment of the ancient world
  17.58, Friday 18 Nov 2022 (streak: 138 weeks)
  1,037 words, 15 links
  Tagged: sound-and-music, speculative-in-2022

• The drone superhighway needs its own art program
  21.55, Monday 21 Nov 2022 (streak: 139 weeks)
  686 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: new-words-about-old-posts

• The gift of virtual crabs is a signpost to the future of tradable app features
  16.05, Tuesday 22 Nov 2022 (streak: 139 weeks)
  965 words, 8 links
  Tagged: new-words-about-old-posts

• My old Richter scale for system outages, revisited
  17.36, Wednesday 23 Nov 2022 (streak: 139 weeks)
  1,087 words, 10 links
  Tagged: complexity, eschatology, new-words-about-old-posts

• Some books that mean a lot to me, taking another run at a blogging meme from 2005
  21.48, Thursday 24 Nov 2022 (streak: 139 weeks)
  910 words, 12 links
  Tagged: new-words-about-old-posts

• You wouldn’t retweet a car
  18.22, Friday 25 Nov 2022 (streak: 139 weeks)
  654 words, 6 links
  Tagged: new-words-about-old-posts, taking-magic-seriously

• My pitch for a colossal photorealistic statue of the queen
  21.37, Wednesday 30 Nov 2022 (streak: 140 weeks)
  753 words, 4 links

• Weaving women’s work, Hollerith tabulators, and procedurally generated art
  13.46, Friday 2 Dec 2022 (streak: 140 weeks)
  853 words, 11 links

• Carbonating beef broth for fun and profit
  10.22, Wednesday 7 Dec 2022 (streak: 141 weeks)
  726 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: food-and-so-on

• Dowsing is a technology for intuition amplification
  15.12, Friday 9 Dec 2022 (streak: 141 weeks)
  770 words, 5 links
  Tagged: esoteric-supersenses, functional-divination

• Let’s use spreadsheets to rewire apps and make new ones
  18.15, Tuesday 13 Dec 2022 (streak: 142 weeks)
  909 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2022

• Transcribing all our conversations 24/7 will be weird and also useful maybe
  13.50, Wednesday 14 Dec 2022 (streak: 142 weeks)
  1,088 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Action Cat! A new experiment around bots, video calls, voice, and spreadsheets
  13.08, Thursday 15 Dec 2022 (streak: 142 weeks)
  596 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• Do not buy three decades of loo paper, nor depart today for Barnard’s Star
  16.15, Tuesday 20 Dec 2022 (streak: 143 weeks)
  954 words, 10 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2022

• My most popular posts in 2022 and other lists
  15.01, Wednesday 21 Dec 2022 (streak: 143 weeks)
  730 words, 27 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta

• What I’ve been reading in 2022
  17.42, Friday 30 Dec 2022 (streak: 144 weeks)
  578 words, 14 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: reading-roundup, taking-magic-seriously

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