My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug

I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.

2026-4-23 12:00am Drobinin Limited Vadim Drobinin 2,000 words

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I don't want your PRs anymore

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The Story of Art + Water

For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Ag...

2026-4-11 4:16am McSweeney's Internet Tendency Dave Eggers 4,000 words

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The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

2026-4-14 9:01am Electronic Frontier Foundation Guest Author 1,000 words

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