Are you looking for a paid, internship opportunity for next summer? Applications for our 2024 Fellowship are now open to bootcamp, undergraduate, and graduate students who want to make a difference with their tech and design skills. Apply now: cif2024.com/about

"To make a clear pumpkin pie, you need highly concentrated pumpkin pie extract, and a complete disregard for the sanctity of dessert. I possess both." I wrote about clear pumpkin pie and why sometimes it's okay to phone it in during the holidays. everywhereist.com/2023/11/invisi…

I'm a developer who is curious about Salesforce but allergic to jargon. Looking for 1hr-ish of video/written walkthrough that shows what it's like to configure/use on the back end, real-talk with minimal glossy marketing. Suggestions?

A little early bday gift to me: My flash piece “Is Now and Ever Shall Be” is up on Fractured Lit! Thank you to sara lippmann for choosing this quirky little piece <3 fracturedlit.com/is-now-and-eve…

An important statement on the latest tea controversy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

So proud of Alex Bisker for getting published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction! Check out her beautiful story (I'm not biased) of the end of a relationship and the end of the universe.

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "SIackbot" and G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

This is incredible. From Jamie Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

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Feldman's Law, building on Conway's Law: "Your organization will always have silos. Sometimes you get to pick them."

the MTA’s response to Trump’s congestion pricing post: “Once streets are less congested the former president’s SUV should be able to get to the courthouse faster, or he can use mass transit like millions of hardworking New Yorkers do every day” and they sent transit directions

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Lede of the day, via Hell Gate *subscribe today!* and Christopher Robbins : hellgatenyc.com/profiles-in-co…

New York City paid Mckinsey $4m to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash bins are better than leaving garbage on the street. The deck is 95-slides long and titled “The Future of Trash”. Some highlights: ▫️The official term is “containerization”, which is the “storage

It's not too late to support our best hope for this country's future, Kamala Harris. I'm going to play my small part in this election by matching donations up to a total of $1K. If you've been on the fence about contributing or been waiting for a sign to do it, let this be

Big car safe?

*New* in NYC trash news: The Sanitation Department picked a vendor for new large on-street trash containers called Empire Bins - Contenur, a Spanish company that makes the ones in Barcelona. $7 million contract. Pilot starts in West Harlem in June: shorturl.at/8jIQp

you've heard of DINK... just determined that my cat has it even better: Double Income No Job (DINJ, pronounced "dingy")