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November 2025

Weekly Notes — November 17, 2025

Makerspace classroom with blue worktables, parts bins, an arcade cabinet, and a whiteboard covered in student doodles

A quieter week on the surface, but the kind where the ideas pile up in unexpected corners like code windows, student conversations, half-built hardware, grant documents, and browser prototypes that refuse to behave neatly. Building Strange Things on Jetstream2 I spent time exploring Indiana University’s…

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Weekly Notes — 2025-11-10

Pink sunset behind a bare tree over rolling hills, with a picnic table and lawn chairs silhouetted in the foreground

There’s a line I read this week that’s pretty compelling: encryption, Doctorow says, makes it possible to scramble a photo so thoroughly that even if every hydrogen atom in the universe were made into a computer, we still wouldn’t have enough universe to brute-force the…

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ourss – An Opinionated RSS Reader

The ourss reader: feed folders in a sidebar next to a digest of unread articles from The Verge

I spent nine days building ourss, an opinionated RSS reader that leans into the weird web. It runs in human-scale instances, lets friends trade links inside their node, and generates a daily digest that summarizes what you actually read while recommending what to read next….

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