There Are Craters in All of Our Chests
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty13 Apr 2025
During my recent trip to Sri Lanka (gosh, it’s been three weeks already since I came back), I found out something strange.
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Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize15 Feb 2025
by Kurt Andersen ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow A politically charged vision of what our civil strife might look like just a bit down the road.
Climate change charts a dangerous course for the world’s largest fish | Conservation International
"Human Nature" Blog20 Nov 2024
Warmer oceans are putting two giants of the sea on a collision course. Even at the size of a school bus, whale sharks — the world’s largest fish — are no match for cargo ships in busy shipping...
Butterfloat 1.5.0: Stamps for Static Rendering
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher17 Nov 2024
Butterfloat released a big 1.5.0 with a big new building block (nicknamed Stamps) for server-side rendering and static ahead-of-time rendering for the static HTML parts of components.
Modern Node Packaging and Bundler-Free Living
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher13 Mar 2024
I’ve found myself giving multiple light tutorials on how simple modern ES Module-only packaging can be in Node/npm packages.
With new discovery, island nation turns page on a painful legacy | Conservation International
"Human Nature" Blog4 Dec 2023
Nathan Conaboy’s day had taken an unexpected turn, and he now found himself in a distant cavern, searching for geckos.
What is Butterfloat and Why is it The Greatest?
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher28 Nov 2023
I’ve been working on a modern web view engine named Butterfloat (now in pre-release) that is interestingly Knockout-inspired, but with a focus on Typescript and as pure as possible RxJS...
The Prismatic Decimal System
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher16 Nov 2023
I’d had a passive interest in finding this novel for years. It had been first mentioned to me in the footnote of an autobiography of a modest local 1950s television star as a favorite novel of her...
3 ways Indigenous knowledge protects nature | Conservation International
"Human Nature" Blog9 Aug 2023
Despite representing less than 5 percent of the world’s population, Indigenous Peoples steward more than a quarter of Earth’s land and seas and protect a significant share of Earth’s biodiversity.
Playing with the Bones of Star Trek: Picard
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher29 Apr 2023
The other day on Mastodon I got to thinking and talking again about how some of the ideas of Star Trek: Picard’s first season really with resonated me, but that it was mostly a problem of execution...
On Bluey, new PvP in Sea of Thieves, and Why It is Sometimes Fine to Suck at Warcraft
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher8 Jan 2023
In November and December I had a maelstrom of different things smash together that all sort of reminded me of strange parts of my education, all the while I was fighting some illness that was...
Film of the Moment: Slipstream (1989)
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher25 Nov 2022
I realize that I fell out of the habit of “of the Moment” posts as so much of that sort of discussion moved to social media.
Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community
Signal Blog22 Sept 2022
Signal is currently blocked in Iran. To help people in the country access Signal, we are republishing and revising a post that we originally posted in February, 2021 during a very similar situation...
Don't Grow Old
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher17 Aug 2022
I wrote what follows this foreword on July 9, 2018. I was sitting with my sister at the bar at the restaurant where my brother worked.
Getting to know your remote teammates • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone2 Nov 2021
Fostering a sense of connection with your team is probably the hardest part of working remotely. When you work in an office together, you can walk by someone’s desk and give them a friendly...
Sovereign Arcade: Currency as High-Margin Infrastructure
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)27 May 2021
Money allows goods, services, and everything else under the sun to be assigned a value using the same unit of measurement. Without money, society reverts to bartering, which is highly inefficient.
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
Signal Blog4 Feb 2021
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country.
New Trends in Wellness
Live Life Travelby Anne Gordon12 Jul 2020
Trends in Wellness... Mother/Daughter Travel WRITTEN BY ANNE GORDON, OWNER, LEISURE TRAVEL ADVISOR, LIVE LIFE TRAVEL • WWW.LIVELIFETRAVEL.WORLD We recently had the pleasure of planning such a trip...
Be a Smart Traveler
Live Life Travelby Anne Gordon10 Jul 2020
Be a SMART Traveler WRITTEN BY ANNE GORDON, OWNER, LEISURE TRAVEL ADVISOR, LIVE LIFE TRAVEL • WWW.LIVELIFETRAVEL.WORLD Here are some essentials to becoming a SMART Traveler: STEP (SMART TRAVELER...
4 Honeymoons and an Anniversary
Live Life Travelby Anne Gordon26 Feb 2020
It’s likely around the time when most of you are starting to think about your honeymoon. And while there is no right answer for everyone in terms of when to plan, we do have some general guidelines...