Kevin Purdy

Dishonored and Prey fought it out for slot #7. Shenzen I/O as a pandemic-specific footnote.

Bills?

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

Next version of the Odyssey I want to see: written, directed and starring Danny McBride

Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." [kottke.org]

Backlit mammatus, a red-backed rainbow, and a fiery sky to close out the day. #dc #dcwx @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social

D.C.’s Capital Weather, formerly with the “Gang” appendage, has moved out of the Washington Post for reasons most of us can gather. Supporting their new thing (@capitalweather.bsky.social) is a good use of old Post subscription money.

If you’re one of our many readers who wants an electric car that won’t track you, Slate might have what you’re looking for.

I wrote a post at Ars Technica about an OSS garage opener device and 1/3 of the comments were demanding that I paint the raw drywall in my garage. Ars really trains you as a writer in, like, fourth-dimensional defensive objection thinking.

"Scrabble that doesn't drag" is some (unwitting) freelance marketing copy I did for my friend @qrush.bsky.social and his new game, Wordtrak: wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05...

Paperless-ngx + Tailscale for a secure, searchable stash of all your actually important documents. Local AI tagging entirely optional. tailscale.com/blog/paperle...

"[T]hey want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI" Alongside the bold plan to win users by... building a better browser. I'm here for it. www.pcmag.com/news/firefox...

Everyone’s saying “Miroslav Šatan” and they’re absolutely correct: Miroslav Šatan.

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

there may not be a more fun name to say than Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 🦬

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Slackbitrage (n.): Posting slick memes and links from one Friend Slack full of clued-in people to another Friend Slack that has no membership or interaction overlap, such as to boost your own slickness. Usage: "Did he just stumble across that John Wick meme, or is this Slackbitrage?"

Here’s how Tailscale handled MacBooks “notching” its menu bar icon—starting with a coy little code fix and ending with a whole new windowed Mac UI. tailscale.com/blog/macos-n...

Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF. The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC. That's been made possible thanks to Metro.

DC was the only postwar US city where residents successfully fought back against new freeways & chose to reallocate transportation funds instead to a brand-new metro network. Rather than just a line or two through the city center—like Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore—DC got a real network. It paid off.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

I'm turning 36 years old this month which means it's time to put childish things behind me. This way everyone can see my collection when I'm on a Zoom call.

Had a real “Get right with @obsidian.md ”’day. Amazes me how unobtrusive that program is to new ideas and systems. Just a modern marvel.

Would you be a good leader of a communal fallout shelter in the event of World War III? Fortunately the US Department of Defense created a self-assessment quiz in the 1970s so that you can "rate yourself as a potential shelter leader"… doomsdaymachines.net/p/take-me-to...

Hey, weirdos (adulative)! Here's a thing about getting iMessage on all your devices, if you're the type to keep a Mac running all the time. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

Who even hates the Bills that much? It is a suffering brought forward out of deep time by the Old Gods, suffering not compassed by any mere human spite or schadenfreude, but immense—implacable—indifferent—and whose meaning is its meaninglessness.

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

1. Pirates! (NES) 2. Maniac Mansion (NES) 3. Chrono Trigger 4. System Shock 5. Jagged Alliance 2 6. Fallout 7. X-Com 2 8. Elden Ring 9. Disco Elysium 10. Satisfactory

Years In Review, 2022-2025: thepurdman.com/2022-to-2025...

People (even some non-HN-reading people!) have been enjoying the jailbroken Kindle post. It is *always* the post you think is too niche, too late, too specific that gets legs. I thank @annaleen.bsky.social for the perfect quote via KOReader. (Buy their book!) tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

Suddenly it’s just … fun and easy?

Computer couldn’t run System Shock as a teen. Later, I had to fill in covering a speech by a big college donor.

Ask me how I know!

I'll see you there, too. #AllThingsOpen

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone