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4th March, 1:48 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 4 Mar 2026 13:48:54 +0000

It's from a few years back, but "How much should you lie?" is a great piece about startup story telling and what's acceptable.

28th February, 10:42 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:42:26 +0000

It's honestly pretty magical what you can do in CSS these days. You don't need JS for so many things now - and centering content is pretty easy!

28th February, 10:41 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:41:14 +0000

Not only are the curling stones used at the Olympics (and pretty much everywhere) made by a single company in Scotland, they took the stones used in Cortina and cut them down into little commemorative mini stones (which unfortunately sold out right away)

28th February, 10:39 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:39:22 +0000

I didn't realize that the apple 'sleeping light' pulsed at a human breathing rate - I love these little details.

21st February, 6:39 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:39:23 +0000

I'm not great at the dialed.gg color memory/matching game, probably due to being color blind, but it's pretty fun!

30th January, 4:38 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:38:12 +0000

I've been thinking about Logo/Turtle recently and was looking for some good Scratch-like environments for kids to get started in (besides Scratch's own Pen extension). Trinket looks interesting (as an intro to Python), but Turtle Blocks is just what I was looking for. The official hosted version is extremely slow to load for some reason, but it's open source - you can host your own copy and add extensions.

21st January, 8:05 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:05:00 +0000

Nikita's critique of the Mac OS Tahoe icons is accurate and awful. The slow enshittification of everything.

MapToPoster

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:00:34 +0000

MapToPoster is a fun little project that takes open street map data and creates beautiful posters of different cities/locations. More geo projects like this, please.

2025 Reading List

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:08:53 +0000

Another year, another 121 books completed, or about 1 every 3 days. My 2025 reading list has a very brief review/summary of each one.

Highlights were The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball and Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin.

While I strive not to be, I can be pretty inconsistent in my reading pace. More books take 1 day to read than any other length of time, with 72% in 3 days or less and 93% within a week. The longest took a full 23 days (because I was on a vacation where I didn't read much).

I read much less on vacation than when I'm at home, and I read the most when I get really dug into a series I love - October was 13 books from Mick Herron's Slough House.

With ~20 years of my reading history tracked, my biggest take away is that there are still so many great books to find :)

5th January, 7:50 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 5 Jan 2026 07:50:54 +0000

I haven't given it a try yet, but Inkarnate looks amazing for making D&D maps