Donnie
@clapp.me
Improbably, a public school math teacher and instructional coach.
Formerly: ski bum ➡️ IT guy ➡️ PR guy ➡️ copywriter ➡️ CD ➡️ marketing director
Aspirationally? Unironic furniture influencer.
One too many bourbons (occasionally)
Formerly: ski bum ➡️ IT guy ➡️ PR guy ➡️ copywriter ➡️ CD ➡️ marketing director
Aspirationally? Unironic furniture influencer.
One too many bourbons (occasionally)
"About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuel around..."
Excuse me? That's nuts.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excuse me? That's nuts.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuel around..."
Excuse me? That's nuts.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excuse me? That's nuts.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you were in a hypothetical situation, what would you do?
June 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you were in a hypothetical situation, what would you do?
"...and it was a lot more fun than making work we were proud of for people we didn’t particularly like..."
A gem from @coudal.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91352848/fie...
A gem from @coudal.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91352848/fie...
How Field Notes went from side project to cult notebook
Two decades after Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal launched Field Notes, the analog notebook company is crushing it in the digital age.
www.fastcompany.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"...and it was a lot more fun than making work we were proud of for people we didn’t particularly like..."
A gem from @coudal.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91352848/fie...
A gem from @coudal.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91352848/fie...
Could not agree more with @gruber.foo here. Switch to @kagi.com. The quality gap between it and Google is widening over time. The very last monthly subscription I would give up. daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
daringfireball.net
April 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Could not agree more with @gruber.foo here. Switch to @kagi.com. The quality gap between it and Google is widening over time. The very last monthly subscription I would give up. daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
Unintended consequences.
(Smartphone pros and cons)
Pro: Enabled the end of bathroom stall graffiti.
Con: I have no idea who to call for a good time.
Pro: Enabled the end of bathroom stall graffiti.
Con: I have no idea who to call for a good time.
February 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Unintended consequences.
I feel like there is a metaphor hiding in here somewhere.
I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I feel like there is a metaphor hiding in here somewhere.
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not to get all lib about it but sometimes it really feels like having a black dude as president was a worse trauma than 9/11 for about half the country and they’re taking decades to process it and dragging us all down with them
January 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
not to get all lib about it but sometimes it really feels like having a black dude as president was a worse trauma than 9/11 for about half the country and they’re taking decades to process it and dragging us all down with them
Really enjoyed @dynomight.net's thoughts on the algorithms slowly ruining your life:
"I suspect the main reason they haven’t been solved is that we haven’t tried very hard. We should do that."
dynomight.net/ranking/
"I suspect the main reason they haven’t been solved is that we haven’t tried very hard. We should do that."
dynomight.net/ranking/
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned
Only some kinds are bad
dynomight.net
January 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Really enjoyed @dynomight.net's thoughts on the algorithms slowly ruining your life:
"I suspect the main reason they haven’t been solved is that we haven’t tried very hard. We should do that."
dynomight.net/ranking/
"I suspect the main reason they haven’t been solved is that we haven’t tried very hard. We should do that."
dynomight.net/ranking/
I just asked deepseek r1 a logic question and its chain of thought was 7,065 words long. I started laughing out loud as I watched it second-guess itself over and over.
January 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I just asked deepseek r1 a logic question and its chain of thought was 7,065 words long. I started laughing out loud as I watched it second-guess itself over and over.
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I just heard the kids from down the hall getting home from school and one of them said "last one to the door is a rotten egg" and for some reason I can't quite pin down, I'm so glad kids still say that
December 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I just heard the kids from down the hall getting home from school and one of them said "last one to the door is a rotten egg" and for some reason I can't quite pin down, I'm so glad kids still say that
just realized that #aphantasia explains why I’m good at numbers but struggle with sudoku
December 9, 2024 at 6:50 PM
just realized that #aphantasia explains why I’m good at numbers but struggle with sudoku
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Who is excited to learn Roman numerals together?
I, for one
I, for one
December 8, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Who is excited to learn Roman numerals together?
I, for one
I, for one
Remember when Jay-Z was like "H to the izzo, V to the izzay," and we were like "What does that mean?" and our high school friend was like "oh it's short for Jehovah, like as in he's so good at rap he's God," and we were just like "Neat."
November 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Remember when Jay-Z was like "H to the izzo, V to the izzay," and we were like "What does that mean?" and our high school friend was like "oh it's short for Jehovah, like as in he's so good at rap he's God," and we were just like "Neat."
Wow it is incredibly disorienting to hear the "gotta be fresh" sample from Workaholics in a Wendy's commercial. #cfb
youtu.be/an5EIfGNT7I?...
youtu.be/an5EIfGNT7I?...
November 23, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Wow it is incredibly disorienting to hear the "gotta be fresh" sample from Workaholics in a Wendy's commercial. #cfb
youtu.be/an5EIfGNT7I?...
youtu.be/an5EIfGNT7I?...
Two people are begging you!
Please read books. I’m begging you.
November 22, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Two people are begging you!
@jeffcannata.bsky.social When you recounted watching It's a Wonderful Life for the first time on today's podcast, I was reminded what an awesome segment that was, and how well it mirrored my experience watching it for the first time as an adult. So good. 📽️ 🎥
youtu.be/dEylBXrD9FU?...
youtu.be/dEylBXrD9FU?...
The Totally Rad Show Episode 40: Shaningled (December 25, 2007)
YouTube video by Totally Rad Show Archive
youtu.be
November 19, 2024 at 10:54 PM
@jeffcannata.bsky.social When you recounted watching It's a Wonderful Life for the first time on today's podcast, I was reminded what an awesome segment that was, and how well it mirrored my experience watching it for the first time as an adult. So good. 📽️ 🎥
youtu.be/dEylBXrD9FU?...
youtu.be/dEylBXrD9FU?...
Surprising fact of the day: Sales of Nerds went from $40 million in 2018 to $800 million in 2023, a jump of 1,900%.
Why? One word: clusters.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/u...
h/t @kottke.org
Why? One word: clusters.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/u...
h/t @kottke.org
Inside the Colorful and Cultish World of Nerds Gummy Clusters
Sales of Nerds have greatly increased in recent years, the company says. The secret? A multicolored orb.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Surprising fact of the day: Sales of Nerds went from $40 million in 2018 to $800 million in 2023, a jump of 1,900%.
Why? One word: clusters.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/u...
h/t @kottke.org
Why? One word: clusters.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/u...
h/t @kottke.org
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It’s not that we are any better, it’s that the life of a non-reader is unquestionably worse.
November 19, 2024 at 2:33 AM
It’s not that we are any better, it’s that the life of a non-reader is unquestionably worse.
Agreed with this. I was pretty active on the other site once upon a time. Excited about this whole #EduSky thing.
Seeing more educators on BlueSky feels like the innocent days of the bird. Let’s make the community even stronger and welcoming! #edusky
November 18, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Agreed with this. I was pretty active on the other site once upon a time. Excited about this whole #EduSky thing.
What I want from a social app is to absolutely never post, but then once a year, have an interesting thought and have hundreds of people tell me I'm smart.
November 18, 2024 at 11:32 PM
What I want from a social app is to absolutely never post, but then once a year, have an interesting thought and have hundreds of people tell me I'm smart.
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This is true, but also this is the definition of programming.
In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.
September 30, 2024 at 12:23 AM
This is true, but also this is the definition of programming.
"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done."
I am one of today's 10,000 for this #ai gem 👇
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
I am one of today's 10,000 for this #ai gem 👇
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
The Bitter Lesson
www.incompleteideas.net
September 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done."
I am one of today's 10,000 for this #ai gem 👇
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
I am one of today's 10,000 for this #ai gem 👇
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...