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Some highlights from the week:

Design Theory analysed why nothing looks cool anymore in a new video. I don’t care about cars, but it’s an interesting lens with which to look through the current bland landscape of design.

Retronaut discussed the

This surprised me last week, so I’m passing it on for what it’s worth. I used my standard FreeBSD Ansible playbook to define a new zpool on a Linux host, and in the process inadvertently set the acltype to nfsv4, which Linux doesn’t support.

At least, I thought? I checked the pool:

But

I spent a few years here blogging about my decluttering process. A post I wrote in December 2016 titled goodbye junk is illustrative. I grew up in households where things played an oversized role, so to be able to be more ruthless with junk in my own life felt liberating.<...

10/10, no notes again from one of my favourite thinkers in this space:

Think about a person who works on developing chemicals basically saying: “Yeah we’re just throwing random stuff together. There’s at least a 10% chance that – since we don’t really do any ...

I’ve been seeing these in my server logs since at least last year, almost entirely from Face(plant)book: