January 2019

The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy

Over the years, C.K.’s comedy evolved, as any comic’s will, but at their best and most well known, his jokes were about interrogating himself as a means of interrogating American culture. As C.K. shuffled uncomfortably on stages and sets, clad in rumpled T-shirts and slouchy dad jeans, he served as his own act’s useful idiot: C.K., author and character at once, played the privileged guy… See more →

Whatever bullshit awaits, Brian Downey’s drum fills will get me through it. youtube.com/watch?v=NCA1yC…

A lot happened in 2018. The ruinous Trump administration continued doing its ruinous thing. I finally deleted my Facebook account. I had a stressful couple of months caused by something that rhymes with “head hugs,” which I would gladly trade the life of any loved one to avoid going through again. I visited the UK for the first time. I published 33 blog posts, including several well-received posts on design and development.

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Also worth keeping an eye on @SaraSoueidan’s series on SVG filters: tympanus.net/codrops/2019/0…

Clever techniques for manipulating color with CSS filters and SVG filters: css-tricks.com/the-many-ways-…

RIP revered genre film fixture Dick Miller. I always loved that he played the same part in two of these Corman productions, 30 years apart: twitter.com/robweychert/st…

A great post from @owltastic outlining the decision-making process behind her new site design: medium.com/@owltastic/new…

This doesn’t seem to address privacy concerns, which are a big use case for ad blockers, but I think it’s the beginning of a great idea. twitter.com/meyerweb/statu…

isn’t it really the ceiling of your mouth

“About 79,000 people, most trapped by out-of-reach rents and low wages, are homeless” in New York City. nytimes.com/2019/01/24/nyr…

“Companies that use AWS are feeding critical market data directly to the company that […] will one day be their largest competitor.” twitter.com/kashhill/statu…

Trying to decide the fate of my Flickr account: pony up for another year of life support or just finally pull the plug? 😕

The bittersweet symphony of favoriting a @frank_chimero tweet twitter.com/frank_chimero/…

And heeeerre comes the @naconf FOMO. 😕

In my dream, I happened upon a guy teaching his dog to drive, and a legal loophole let me make that dog the President of the United States.

Can anyone recommend a good guitar teacher or school in NYC? Primarily rock but preferably well versed in a variety of styles.

I don’t know who is going to the Super Bowl and I don’t know who got Oscar nominations and I intend to keep it that way.

A lot of good advice in here for designers of all experience levels. twitter.com/astahearts/sta…

1. See person toss cigarette butt
2. Consider picking it up—“Here, you dropped this”—but don’t
3. Stew over it for the next several hours

We updated our Cabinet Cards to mark two years of the Trump administration, and it got pretty messy pretty quickly. features.propublica.org/cabinet-cards/…

What would it take to organize a mass boycott of the secondary market for event tickets?

Today’s radio station: open.spotify.com/user/spotify/p…

The attitude that the web is a software platform and nothing else can go piss up a rope. twitter.com/frontendben/st…

This collection of portraits of the women of the 116th Congress is a beautiful piece of work. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Be generous with praise. Kind words from people we look up to mean a lot. Love this post (and new site!) from @jina: sushiandrobots.com/journal/aw-shu…

Frequently Used Emoji as personality quiz.

Me, apparently:
🙂👍🏻😕❤️🙃😞☹️🎉👋🏻🙌🏻😑💔💯🎶🤷🏻‍♂️😐☝🏻💗💀💙🤞🏻🏆

capitalism is working just fine why do you ask twitter.com/nytimes/status…

Ian MacKaye thought his bass was broken. Darryl from Bad Brains picked it up. “It wasn’t the bass.” I think of it when Leah uses my kitchen.

I like listening to how subway conductors rush through phrases they have to constantly repeat.

“ManhabouCstanclea”
“QtoConeyICanaStrenex”

why is @kennyloggins not the spokesman for @1Password

There is not enough time.

Kudos to @MsRebeccaBlack. 8 years later, virtually every morning, I open my kitchen cabinet with a “Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal.”

They Photoshopped Adam’s junk out of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Best part of the God’s Not Dead trilogy so far is when they Photoshopped Adam’s junk out of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

What we now call mixtapes are cool but I wish I could still use the term unambiguously as it was originally used.

This profile of Apprentice creator Mark Burnett makes me want to set things on fire. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Smart watches have the potential to “switch the media paradigm from an endless stream to a concentrated dispatch.” niemanlab.org/2019/01/leave-…

“I always tell my daughters they can be anything they want, so long as they don’t make other people uncomfortable.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-don…

My bite-sized film reviews from 2018: v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/12/l…

My December links, including punk dataviz, crowdsourced fiction, social media anxiety, mass transit laments, & more: v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/12/l…

For 2019, I’m aiming to get better at making contingency plans.

✨ inbox zero for the new yearo ✨