dorian
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make things. make sense.
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dorian
@doriantaylor.com
· Oct 22
i dunno if you know this about me but, ahh
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i hate when it's too cold/snowy to bike to the pool, it adds a literal hour and change to have to walk
February 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
i hate when it's too cold/snowy to bike to the pool, it adds a literal hour and change to have to walk
i'm sure somebody has considered this but if alice blocks bob on bluesky and carol's website has log in with #atproto functionality, it's up to carol to figure out what to do with that information, isn't it
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
i'm sure somebody has considered this but if alice blocks bob on bluesky and carol's website has log in with #atproto functionality, it's up to carol to figure out what to do with that information, isn't it
uhhhh lol
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
uhhhh lol
something i really wish i had for writing was a parallel track where i could write notes to myself in a way that was not shown to readers, and have that machine-actionable so i could pick it up on the other side (e.g. things to research)
or even a sort of an inline sotto voce grey text…
or even a sort of an inline sotto voce grey text…
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
something i really wish i had for writing was a parallel track where i could write notes to myself in a way that was not shown to readers, and have that machine-actionable so i could pick it up on the other side (e.g. things to research)
or even a sort of an inline sotto voce grey text…
or even a sort of an inline sotto voce grey text…
srslytho where do i find the whole reel of these guys, i got this far but can't read arabic lol
www.youtube.com/@-dabkepal/v...
www.youtube.com/@-dabkepal/v...
February 9, 2026 at 5:02 AM
srslytho where do i find the whole reel of these guys, i got this far but can't read arabic lol
www.youtube.com/@-dabkepal/v...
www.youtube.com/@-dabkepal/v...
Reposted by dorian
So this is how I found out Laurene Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic.
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 AM
So this is how I found out Laurene Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic.
vancouver turned sideways with a giant highway bisecting it
for anyone unfamiliar with the town of Seattle it's sort of an American Vancouver
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
vancouver turned sideways with a giant highway bisecting it
Reposted by dorian
"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
how many of you actually heard this in christian bale's batman voice
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
how many of you actually heard this in christian bale's batman voice
this is not a dunk on OP but rather on bringing arial to the superbowl
like you couldn't afford a font
like you couldn't afford a font
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
this is not a dunk on OP but rather on bringing arial to the superbowl
like you couldn't afford a font
like you couldn't afford a font
another data point for information provenance is good, actually
California state health authorities are warning people to stop foraging wild mushrooms as the death toll from a poisoning outbreak increased to four and as more than three dozen people have been sickened since November.
4 Dead in Mushroom Poisoning Outbreak in California
State health officials discouraged foraging this year, saying that toxic mushrooms can easily be confused with safe ones to eat.
nyti.ms
February 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM
another data point for information provenance is good, actually
this lil porkchop just blasted out 3km on a sunday (so i guess 6th day in a row); i believe i have earned myself the right to negate it with a burger 🏊♂️🍔
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
this lil porkchop just blasted out 3km on a sunday (so i guess 6th day in a row); i believe i have earned myself the right to negate it with a burger 🏊♂️🍔
Reposted by dorian
both solid competitors but after "Someone accustomed to burlap is different from someone who wears silk" you have to give this round to Blazer Unc
Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.
February 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
both solid competitors but after "Someone accustomed to burlap is different from someone who wears silk" you have to give this round to Blazer Unc
this rules (via @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)
Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.
February 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
this rules (via @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)
a scam economy is when you try to have an information economy with no information quality control
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
a scam economy is when you try to have an information economy with no information quality control
i have been up since ~4am (randomly awoke from dream) and after an hour of lying there wide awake i started to write a script for the first of the retail lectures for this: methodandstructure.com/semantic-rest
gonna *try* to get it written and recorded today and shipped tomorrow but may crash, lol
gonna *try* to get it written and recorded today and shipped tomorrow but may crash, lol
Semantic REST
Get your arms fully around the work of genius that is Representational State Transfer, and apply this eminently potent theory to your current and future projects.
methodandstructure.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
i have been up since ~4am (randomly awoke from dream) and after an hour of lying there wide awake i started to write a script for the first of the retail lectures for this: methodandstructure.com/semantic-rest
gonna *try* to get it written and recorded today and shipped tomorrow but may crash, lol
gonna *try* to get it written and recorded today and shipped tomorrow but may crash, lol
hahaha linkedin you're truly hitlerious
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
hahaha linkedin you're truly hitlerious
lol
me: hey i know instead of doing the thing i was gonna do why not vibe up some dumb api client to huff down my youtube video descriptions and captions so i can make a feed out of em
me: lol of course that wouldn't work
me: *fix fix fix*
me: <blows through the entire quota on the test run>
me: hey i know instead of doing the thing i was gonna do why not vibe up some dumb api client to huff down my youtube video descriptions and captions so i can make a feed out of em
me: lol of course that wouldn't work
me: *fix fix fix*
me: <blows through the entire quota on the test run>
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
lol
me: hey i know instead of doing the thing i was gonna do why not vibe up some dumb api client to huff down my youtube video descriptions and captions so i can make a feed out of em
me: lol of course that wouldn't work
me: *fix fix fix*
me: <blows through the entire quota on the test run>
me: hey i know instead of doing the thing i was gonna do why not vibe up some dumb api client to huff down my youtube video descriptions and captions so i can make a feed out of em
me: lol of course that wouldn't work
me: *fix fix fix*
me: <blows through the entire quota on the test run>
Reposted by dorian
i think information architecture can go beyond becoming sovereign: IA should become the dominant discipline, subjugating UX, UI, CX, and even PM under the awesome and primordial might of Pure Information lol
if information architecture is your thing and you have 40 minutes, you can watch my talk where i argue that information architects should step out from underneath the UX umbrella and reestablish IA as a sovereign concept
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
Information Architecture Conference 2025: Organizational Cartography and You
YouTube video by dorian taylor
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 10:59 PM
i think information architecture can go beyond becoming sovereign: IA should become the dominant discipline, subjugating UX, UI, CX, and even PM under the awesome and primordial might of Pure Information lol
if information architecture is your thing and you have 40 minutes, you can watch my talk where i argue that information architects should step out from underneath the UX umbrella and reestablish IA as a sovereign concept
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
Information Architecture Conference 2025: Organizational Cartography and You
YouTube video by dorian taylor
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
if information architecture is your thing and you have 40 minutes, you can watch my talk where i argue that information architects should step out from underneath the UX umbrella and reestablish IA as a sovereign concept
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
IA can start by making developers' lives easier
youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E
was looking something else up and saw this and welp it's the law
February 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
was looking something else up and saw this and welp it's the law
in honour of people just discovering substack, here is my last post on there (which is now on buttondown):
buttondown.com/dorian/archi...
buttondown.com/dorian/archi...
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night
In which I decamp from Substack to Buttondown, and announce a new format for the newsletter.
buttondown.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
in honour of people just discovering substack, here is my last post on there (which is now on buttondown):
buttondown.com/dorian/archi...
buttondown.com/dorian/archi...
sneakin' da peekin': methodandstructure.com/semantic-rest
Semantic REST
Get your arms fully around the work of genius that is Representational State Transfer, and apply this eminently potent theory to your current and future projects.
methodandstructure.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
sneakin' da peekin': methodandstructure.com/semantic-rest
so is the rule for gerrymandering that the space (modulo islands) has to be contiguous or
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
so is the rule for gerrymandering that the space (modulo islands) has to be contiguous or