I have found Danny O'Brien's new blog: the Noisebridge mailing list. noisebridge-discuss entrances me because it's techno-anarchism in action, a lot like the Wikimedia movement, except it's way smaller, a higher proportion of the members …

Just finished REAMDE, walked into the study, thudded it onto Leonard's desk, and said with wonder, "I cannot recommend that you read this." I cannot recall the last Stephenson I read that had fewer ideas, …

I'm now 812 pages into REAMDE. It reads as though Cory Doctorow, in preparing to write For The Win, had drawn upon his eleventh grade lit teacher Thomas Pynchon, who had taught him what "puissant" …

For professional development reasons, I'm starting a four-week course that'll teach me JavaScript/jQuery/CSS/JSON stuff in the context of the Etsy API. This meant that today I read the Etsy terms of use, and had to …

Some recent videos of me: My talk at Wikimania, "How to get what you want from MediaWiki's developers" (first 22 minutes of video); talk, notes. An interview with me at OSCON about "the role of …

Randall Munroe got married and I wish him all the best. The bell sound I use to alert me when someone mentions or messages me in IRC is bell-octave2.wav, which came in a bundle of …

Seven years ago, I received a copy of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We in the mail. I don't know who sent it to me. Two days ago, the same thing happened to my friend Will. Is this …

Gratitude isn't just validating because it rewards narcissism or vanity. Genuine gratitude sustains because it is empirical proof that we were of use, that we made a dent in the universe.

Went to the event, saw someone I knew, got ridiculously bespoke teetotaller drinks with cucumber and ginger and red pepper flakes and egg white, listened to Mountain Goats and Dar Williams and Everclear on the …

I went to San Francisco last week to work with my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation. Some highlights from the past week: looking at the Red Umbrellas art gallery displayed in Union Square while tango …