Spent a little bit of time reading kottke.org and stumbled across this short article on the quiet grief of adult friendship. Grateful for the time that I’ve spent connecting and reconnecting with people over the years.
Author Archives: cafedave
Clean your plate
Clean your plate was a food-waste-reduction strategy from Hoover, to help the USA win WWII, and other ideas you may have taken on without thinking about it.
movie: H is for Hawk
Movie: H is for Hawk Watched on a day off; slow meditation on grief; well acted, looked amazing on a big screen, but hard to see how it would find a multiplex audience, nor how people in greater Sydney would generally be able to find such a thing.
How not to find out
Watching Tron: Ares with the kids and we were arguing about how they are able to 3-D print out of light. Of course this prompted the question: how much does a photon weigh.. if you had enough photons, then you could make something? Straight to Siri, who helpfully weighed in: 200 pounds I was pretty …
just start
Many years ago, in what I still call “redundancy school”, we learned about how to find out the information that’s needed. One of my goals for 2026 is to try and capture some of those lessons from late 2014, along with what I’ve learned along the way. I find myself stuck in analysis-paralysis, wanting to …
How hard can it be to cancel?
Taking dark patterns to an extreme, Amazon internal documents show they called their complex Prime cancellation process Iliad.
generations use AI differently
We see more and more ink spilled, computer power devoted to, software feature descriptions incorporating how to make the most of AI. Different generations are using AI for different roles, from life coach or adviser to encyclopaedia or search engine. The announcement of the teami up between the designer of the iMac and the founder …
Movie: flow (2024)
Winner of the Academy Award for animation (2025) but made in Latvia using free animation software “Blender”. Really enjoyed the experience of watching it with my son; he could explain just how clever this wordless animation was. Learn more and watch the trailer on IMDB
the one hundred pages strategy
The One Hundred Pages Strategy talks about how to adjust your day to create the greatest possible time for reading. It’s written in clear prose, but if you’d like it in pseudo-diagram form, I’ve made an attempt.
internet project milestones
Noah Kalina is still taking photos of himself every day. He’s been doing that for 25 years.