Alex

One PE firm owns Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare, Instant Pot, Anchor Hocking, and Oneida. The pastel Instagram pans lose their nonstick between cooking cycle 30 and 60. A pan measured in months, priced like it's forever. Who owns your kitchen, and what's still worth buying 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3xc53m

Here’s my radical position: Just be normal about shit. That’s it. Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-no...

Most people don't read @joanwestenberg.com. They don't know what they are missing out on. Sorry, had to :) www.joanwestenberg.com/i-truly-hate...

Very excited and proud to have planted a Live Oak tree this morning. Thanks to Austin Tree Folks for the free tree and planting guidance!

Github alerts are so fun when your co-dev is your husband "Alex created an issue" Like yeah, lemme tell ya Github. This is not the first time

I believe in you🫂

This jaw-dropping article discusses TxDOT's recent statements in support of public transit across Texas. Happy Monday, y'all! www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

> The Texas Constitution mandates that most of the agency’s budget must be spent on building and expanding freeways. —https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/texas-public-transit-plan/ Texas in a nutshell. I hope things can change in the future.

Big update to Smoke Signal just dropped! We've redesigned event pages, added ATProtocol facets support, cryptographic RSVPs, private content controls, and AI agent integration.

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

Just finished reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. Just wow. This feels like required reading in 2025—a premonition of our current political situation and possible future environment due to climate change.

A very worthwhile read: The Electric Slide on Not Boring.

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters