Chris DeLuca

In case you’re feeling like government can’t do good things for regular people like you and me.

Of Monsters and Scholars

Melvin Kretchum sat behind an enormous stack of books, their …

INT. DINER - DAY

DANNY Blues sits in a diner booth oozing charm, whipping French fries into his mouth. He is joined …

One liner to open all git modified files in your editor. Substitute nvim with your-editor; statistically code.

git status -s | awk '{print $2}' | xargs nvim

Home Grown and Garden Fed

There was something heavy in the air. It crashed through a second floor window, landing in a pile of broken glass and furniture. It was a …

I ordered 3 of Julia Evans zines.

I have the PDFs, but waiting to read the physicals. Very excited.

Compelling critique of societies rigid conceptions of how technology interlocks with human life.

Google has been really kicking their own ass, in existential hit after hit. Tighten it up.

Ranking the Filthy 15

Back in the 80s, Tipper Gore and other cultural conservatives went on a crusade against sex and violence in popular music. They put together a list of fifteen representative songs to use as a …

This has been making the rounds, and is super fun and interesting. Well worth the ten minute run time. How do they know dogs are colorblind? (w/ Cleo Abram) - YouTube

This blog is 15 years old today 🎂

Fifteen years. Holy crap. I had no grand plans when I started this blog, and it’s bonkers to me that this is still going. I had made a few personal websites prior to the creation of this blog, …

I ran across this a while ago, but never linked to it. Correcting that grave mistake now. motherfuckingwebsite.com

My friend Lindsey shared this piece on the inspired and terrible Ginger Baker. It focuses on his time after Cream in Nigeria, and his lasting impact there. The album he did with Fela Kuti is incredible.

TIL about margin-trim from Apple’s What’s new in CSS video. Excited for when it’s broadly supported in browsers. Right now, it’s only in Safari.

I got jeans that fit perfectly while thrifting. This never happens. 👖

Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚

Finished reading: You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte. A++ 📚

Once again The Onion comes up clutch, this time on OpenAI and ScarJo.

Jerky, 7-Fingered Scarlett Johansson Appears In Video To Express Full-Fledged Approval Of OpenAI

My roommate Ivy’s band just put out an album, and it sounds really good.

A vinyl record standing against a wall, with a batman and gameboy next to it. The album is called Weird Chills by the band Faith/Void. The cover is a old school horror movie stylized sewer grate, with pink feminine hands with red painted nails coming out of the grate.

A wooden shelf with a whie raccoon penis bone on it. It's curved and has a prong at one end. There's a happy budda and some armadillo statues around.

One of my treasured possessions: a raccoon penis bone given to me while I was in the hospital from Amalia, an art historian I met through my cousin.

Folks really don’t like git rebase. FUD or real? Both? Context: I love it.

In wrong industry acronym land, when I hear the phrase, “Post MVP”, it makes me think it’s after the player’s fallen off.

Three men, two white one brown, flapping their arms and opening their mouths like birds against a brick wall.

From our Happy Valley improv show. Baby bird improv is the best improv, demonstrably. 🎭🐣