Corn tastes better on the honor system by Robin Wall Kimmerer — with cool paper illustrations by Suus Hessling The writings of some early colonists reveal that they thought corn a primitive crop, because it did not require machines or draft animals to cultivate and process, as did their familiar wheat. They mistook the apparent […]

TIL: Downloading every video for a TikTok account TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. I figured out a gnarly pattern for downloading every video from a specified account, using browser console JavaScript to scrape the video URLs and yt-dlp to fetch each video. As a bonus, I included a recipe for generating a...

Thinking for yourself and asking questions about war and race and sexuality can make you unpopular and get you fired. You still need to find a way.

TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account. Scrape the list of video URLs I used a variant of my Twitter scraping trick. Start by loading up a profile page - like https://www.tiktok.com/@ilgallinaio_special - in Firefox or Chrome or...

If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…

I spent the holiday season practicing my handwriting, which was… unexpected. The reason why is that I got a Supernote Nomad, which was enough to warrant spending a pretty large chunk of time using it either exclusively or in tandem with my other devices. Although it’s been only a couple of months, the part of me that initially pondered the Nomad...

You know how I blogged recently about a certain VTuber’s graduation from Hololive? Unrelated to this, Nimi Nightmare debued! (Atom feed here). It was wonderful hearing her voice and jokes again. Her artists did an amazing job matching her design to her personality as well. Caspurr Catachini, Clara’s and my favourite male VTuber, also lent his...

I was tagged by Anders Thoresson to answer the challenge. I accepted. Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? As you can see from the first blog post on this particular blog, I'm coming up on just 3 years of blogging here. This is the first time that I have blogged in any manner that you could call consistently. It all started at that time...

I have a draft riffing on something I read recently about how people don’t care about things. It started getting a bit long, and included a lot of semi-related stuff about tech that I thought would make more sense breaking out into its own post. Hey look, that’s this one! Have you ever noticed that so many things in our daily lives often just…...

To the credit of the team that put this presentation together, they mostly got it.