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Art-house goon

Developer, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ex-@tinymixtapes

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Media Log: Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner)
★★☆☆

Started: Dec 27, 2025
Finished: Jan 17, 2026

#nowreading #books #medialog
"Creation Lake" (Rachel Kushner) book cover
January 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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[Trump]

What the hell? Who is this for?
A tweet from @WhiteHouse with the text “Whole milk is back.” They also attached a Stardew Valley-like 16-bit-looking mock video game screenshot with a little Trump sprite standing in a barn saying “We’re bringing back Whole Milk [sic] and Making America Healthy Again” There is a 16-bit close-up of his face next to this speech bubble, with the name “POTUS” underneath it. There also appears to be an inventory bar with a U.S. flag, a police badge, a MAGA hat, a cell phone…and possibly a Nobel prize?
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Am I the only one driven crazy by this? #ios #ios26 #apple
Safari’s iOS 26 “address bar”. There are two “x” buttons to the right of the URL and they perform different functions.
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Media Log: Blood for Dracula (1974)

Watched: Jan 10, 2026

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
"Blood for Dracula" (1974) movie poster
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Media Log: Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)

Watched: Jan 12, 2026

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
"Escape from New York" (1981) movie poster
January 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Media Log: Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
★★★☆

Watched: Jan 6, 2026

As I heard someone say on the way out of the theater: “Good enough.”

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
January 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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#boston tonight. A few hundred people I'd guess? I've never been good estimating crowds.
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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A small bright moment for today, for me at least — a bit of Apple history.

I emailed the designers of the vector version of Monaco (Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes; Susan Kare having designed the bitmap version), asking about a full family, and this is what I got back.

#typography #macos
Thanks for your message. We are glad you like Monaco. We like it too, and once hoped Apple would release a full 4-style family of Monaco, and the same for New York and Geneva. After those faces were launched with System 7 in 1991, we urged Apple to have us design the companion styles to make them full families, but Apple never did. Those faces have huge x-heights, around 54.5% of the body size, and some users preferred Geneva to Helvetica because it looked bigger on screen. This was a consequence of Susan Kare's constructing the fonts directly on the screen and making the x-heights taller than what standard printing types would have if mapped directly to screen. Back then, Apple wasn't crediting Susan Kare as the designer of the original bitmaps, so her name was left out. Subsequently, we always try to credit Susan Kare for her original work on the bitmaps We wrote an article about the design of those fonts and you can find it online. Try the url below. Sincerely, the Lucida Font store
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Saw this on TV last night, look how cute this hat is!

https://parkeofficial.com/products/cities-hat-boston

#boston
A cream-colored baseball cap with a navy brim. On the front is a red heart with the white letters “B O S T O N” inside it, arranged into a kind of inverted triangle that somehow makes it still legible.
January 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Media Log: Anna von Hausswolff – Iconoclasts
★★★★

Listening: Jan 3, 2025

Have been listening to this consistently since it came out, one of my favorite records in recent memory. Monumental.

#nowlistening #music #medialog
Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts album art
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Media Log: Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
★★★★

Watched: Jan 1, 2026

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
"Marty Supreme" (2025) movie poster
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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A “Do Not Reply”-style card that reads: “Do not try to teach me that on Jeopardy! contestants aren’t allowed to buzz in until the question has been read and that doing so actually locks their buzzer for a short period.”
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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#thetwilightzone #twilightzone
January 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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For as many years as I’ve visited this stop, I’m not sure I’d ever noticed this slightly not Helvetica “HARVARD” on those tiles on the bottom. Notice the tail on the “R” has a kind of squarish shape.

I’m calling it “Harvard Mono” since it is necessarily […]

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A bench at the Harvard T stop in Cambridge MA. At the top is a white Helvetica all-caps “Harvard,” and at the bottom, with one red tile per letter, is another white all-caps “Harvard,” but this is in a kind of slightly blocky Helvetica mimic
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Boy am I curious about all the software in use here
An NFL announcer booth with at least four computer screens, all displaying what appear to be bespoke or otherwise hard to identify applications
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Media Log: Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner)

Started: Dec 27, 2025

#nowreading #books #medialog
"Creation Lake" (Rachel Kushner) book cover
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Media Log: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (ed. Tara Moore)

Started: Nov 28, 2025

#nowreading #books #medialog
"The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories" (ed. Tara Moore) book cover
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Media Log: The Hunter (Tana French)

Started: Nov 1, 2025

I loved this.

#nowreading #books #medialog
“The Hunter” (Tana French) book cover
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Media Log: A Christmas Carol (1951)
★★★★

Watched: Dec 21, 2025

The best

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“A Christmas Carol” (1951) movie poster
December 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Media Log: Mood Machine (Liz Pelly)

Started: Jul 15, 2025

”The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”

#nowreading #books #medialog
“Mood Machine” (2025) book cover
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Media Log: Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
★★★☆

Watched: Nov 1, 2025

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“Frankenstein” (2025) movie poster
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Media Log: The Ritual (2017)
★★☆☆

Watched: Oct 28, 2025

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“The Ritual” (2017) movie poster
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Media Log: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Jim Henson, 1977)
★★★★

Watched: Dec 20, 2025

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” (1977) VHS box art
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Media Log: Good Boy (2025)
★★☆☆

Watched: Dec 6, 2025

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“Good Boy” (2025) movie poster
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Media Log: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Watched: Dec 24, 2025

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) movie poster
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM