Alex Dobrenko

When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you love is... See more

"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."

Patryk Adaś' published a set of speculative design ideas in 2017 that hint at a more Git-like, branching way to view browsing history. Adaś argued we should move away from the concept of tabs in browsers, and instead present histories as a set of trails.

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

A chief gladness of gardening comes from its dual nature, from how it salves our longing for making order out of chaos but also frustrates it. There is elemental satisfaction in the reminder that we can never fully control nature — that, in fact, any sense of control is a childish fantasy, for we ourselves are children of nature, made by the... See more

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