Currently listening to a DJ set on of Soviet funk from the 60s and 70s. Sometimes YouTube comes through. 🎵

I’m editing the final episode of Pursuit of Perfectness, and amidst all the bitter sweet emotions, all I keep hearing in my head is Scott Aukerman saying, “The world’s first dingless podcast.” Not relevant, and not something I heard recently. A real mental barnacle.

Went to the Museum of the Moving Image with my friend Lindsay yesterday, and got to meet a lovely new person, Janice, through the Open Streets. We got Susuru Ramen. A+, no notes.

Kitty cuddle season continues. 🐱

A well written, interesting article from Emily Gorcenski arguing that conceiving of the truth as a process instead of a fixed point is anti-fascist. You’ll need to read to the end to see the whole arc.

…the American right cannot be engaged as an intellectual exercise. They are not opponents in a game of chess playing by accepted rules. They are seeking to define the colors of the squares and the rules by which the pieces move. While you’re playing the board, they’re playing the rulebook.

Great list. 2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year’s resolutions

Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.

I’m running an in person workshop to help empower folks to better understand the internet by building it. If you live in the NYC metro area, I’d love to see you at You Own the Internet.

Started reading: Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford 📚

A very light reading year for me, at least for books. Something I’d like to improve on in 3025. Here are the books I finished reading in 2024. Read more

Sitting around listening to records and reading. I can’t think of a better way to spend New Year’s Day.

A treasure trove of works just entered the public domain. Can’t wait to see what artists do with it.

Happy new year everyone. Deep breath.

Proof that horror movies were about trauma before 2010. Also Santa will kick your fucking ass. Read more

Come for the sumptuous dark visuals, stay for the blood drinking sounds. Read more

Gotta go faster. Read more

Gotta go fast. Read more

…but is it, tho? Read more

I made some updates to my /uses page. Anyone else use uses pages to get inspired on what to use?

My CLI wrapped most used commands.

1. 3732 git
2. 1471 ls
3. 1289 rg
4. 856 ddev
5. 745 nvim
6. 546 mv
7. 534 cd
8. 510 rm
9. 477 yarn
10. 453 cat

Generated with history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head -10.

After exhaustive research and countless hours over nights and weekends, I’ve compiled the authoritative demographic info on the audience for each vi derivative.

1. Neovim: devs wanting a hackable IDE
2. Vim: sysadmins who work primarily over remote terminals
3. Vi: FreeBSD devs
4. Ed: The criminally insane

Well, I’ve watched all of Taskmaster UK. I don’t think I’m going for the other countries, at least not for a while. In the meantime, I keep hearing the task music in my head when I’m cleaning.

While sorting through old papers, I found a copy of the first cover letter I wrote out of collage.

I was trying to score a writing gig, and knew absolutely nothing about anything. I walked around NYC in a suit and handed out this cover letter and a resume with can’t-not-hire credits like, “wrote for my collage paper” to doormen at The Daily Show and Late Night and places like that. I tried to mask my inexperience with a funny cover letter, which, like Carmex on a blister, only servered to highlight it.

The whole thing was, of course, phenomenally ineffective. On the plus side, only several people openly laughed in my face.

The cover letter did give me a chuckle now almost twenty years later, so I’ll take that as a personal win.

Here’s the letter transcribed in its entirety.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please give me a job. I have recently graduated college with an English Degree, and am currently living in a cardboard box. I would like to purchase some duct tape to waterproof said cardboard box, but in today’s unstable economy it runs as high as $4.00, which is well outside my budget. If you could give me a position paying between twenty and thirty dollars a year, it would really help me out. Obviously, I would prefer a job paying at least $100,000.00 a tear, as I could by a lifetime supply of duct tape. Please respond as soon as possible, as the box is getting rather mushy.

Enclosed is my resume. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Christopher DeLuca

Found some old doodles while cleaning out old notebooks.

After being very sick for almost two weeks (and still on a shaky recovery), I’ve started some winter cleaning. I love throwing things out. 🗑️