Russell Blickhan
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Russell Blickhan
@rwblickhan.org
writer and programmer
gainfully employed by descript
epicurean in the philosophical sense
fan of corvids and canines
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Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
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July 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Wrote up my takeaways from an AI-heavy Droidcon 2025!
proandroiddev.com/droidcon-nyc...
Droidcon NYC 2025 Takeaways and Reflections
Droidcon 2025 reflections, featuring AI.
proandroiddev.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
wrote up some thoughts on why hammerspoon is cool
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Automating the Personal
Is there really value in personal automation? I wrote a whole essay on Raycast and I’m still not really sure. Even though xkcd has a helpful chart for how...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
wrote up a spiraling appreciation of libraries:
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My Other Brain is a Library
Choose your own adventure
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April 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
@buttondown.com it looks like the sign-in page is down (alas that I cannot sign in to spew my logorrhea upon the world)
March 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
yesterday I wrote a lil newsletter about how I personally feel about the ethics of using LLMs but then @robinsloan.com wrote the (imo definitive) account so you should read that instead: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...
Is it okay?
Squaring up to the foundational question for language models.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
come, take a 5-minute break from the news, bake some cookies with me
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Cocktail Cookies
No alcohol required
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February 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
my matcha latte recipe:

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Matcha Lattes
Caffeine and theanine for great profit
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January 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I got 70 and most of my other friends were in the 90s 🫠
January 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
aaaaaand the best of everything else that isn’t movies

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Best of the Rest
The personal site of R. W. Blickhan
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January 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
wrote up some of my favorite movies I watched last year (yes megalopolis is on there)

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That Was The Year That Was in Movies
The personal site of R. W. Blickhan
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December 30, 2024 at 10:22 PM
new essay up, on a distinction between farming and foraging thinking styles:

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Farmers & Foragers
A literary distinction, not an occupational one
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December 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
almost forgot! this week's newsletter: how to take pills

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How to Take Pills
Hello from the second week of a pretty awful chest cold.1 I cannot particularly recommend getting sick. 2 I’ve been relying on Mucinex the last two days....
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December 14, 2024 at 5:25 AM
wrote up some of the reasons I love (love love love) @raycast.com. genuinely not sure how I would use my mac without it 🙃

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Why I Use Raycast
Keyboard shortcuts for days
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December 9, 2024 at 12:49 AM
wrote up a few of the reasons I like using fish shell

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Why I Use Fish Shell
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
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December 5, 2024 at 8:36 PM
newsletter day! a list of things I find mysterious

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List of Mysteries
Here’s a few things that I personally still find mysterious. If you have recommendations to read up on any of these, let me know! What is the origin of...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:32 PM
cui jian was on tiny desk in 2023 and nobody ever talks about it???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj05...
Cui Jian: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 23, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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in my opinion we would do well to spend less time moaning about echo chambers — which aren't unique to online social networks — and more time being critical of context collapse.
November 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
newsletter day! in which I ramble for far too long about arcane and Brandon Sanderson and the history of fantasy

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Generic High Fantasy
I was watching the second season of Arcane recently and realized it’s canonizing new “defaults” for the (high) fantasy genre. If you think of the most...
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November 21, 2024 at 6:21 AM
in honor of open enrollment I wrote a brief guide to us employer-sponsored health insurance (as I understand it)
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Russell’s Brief, Opinionated Guide to US Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Wading through a swamp of acronyms for neither fun nor profit
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November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-...
apparently *that* Pokemon episode was partly responsible for the development of modern photosensitive seizure guidelines (which are not applied in the us, eep)
Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon” - Anime Feminist
As an Epileptic, I’ve been very outspoken about my opinions on the increased use of strobe lighting effects in American cartoons. Yet people have accused me of being a hypocrite: why do I continue to ...
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November 15, 2024 at 6:10 AM
have *you* listened to glass beams' ten ragas to a disco beat cover yet today? youtu.be/w_3hALBro5c
Glass Beams - One Raga to a Disco Beat (A cover of 'Raga Bhairav' by Charanjit Singh)
YouTube video by Glass Beams
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November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM