life
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Matthew Grabelsky paints ordinary subway riders with animal heads, using realism and mythology to make strangers on the train feel mysterious again.
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Building a /friends page made me think about the people I have let drift out of my life. A link cannot maintain a friendship, but it can be a reason to reach out and tell someone they still matter.
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MIT Sloan coverage of research on AI financial guidance—showing models can give reasonable life-cycle advice when prompts include full finances and fiduciary framing, while incomplete questions and demographic stereotypes quietly worsen outcomes.
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Not everything needs to become a product or attract an audience. Make things carefully, share what you learn, help others build, and begin again when life interrupts the work.
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Collin Cherubim and colleagues report near-infrared transit spectra showing helium escaping from LHS 1140 b. It is not a detection of life — it is a rocky world in a habitable zone with an atmosphere we can finally begin to study.
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The people worth keeping around often bring joy and kindness to ordinary moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a busy life.
Developer Musings (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
Joshtronic (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshtronic.com
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The last two weeks of my life have been quite transient. More so than the time I hopped a plane to San Francisco, interviewed for 5 hours, and hopped back on a plane back to Florida the same evening. The trek started in Texas with a road trip that passed through 11 states, ending up in Rhode Island where my daughter is attending college. The weather was beautiful, but only for a moment as the next
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I'm still on my self-hosting kick as of late, while also questioning my life choices around hosting my own git forge. The last week or so has included what appears to be a DDoS attack rather than some coordinated scraping effort by a sketchy LLM company. Open source will prevail, even if I'm being stubborn about giving in and setting up Anubis. WordPress has been its own other adventure, but this