Jonno Cohen

@jonnocohen
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Obviously, you’re not a golfer

Imagine the distance between Earth and the sun is one inch. How far away do you think the nearest star is?

Nope. Try again. Still wrong. Again? Nope. Huh uh.

Space is WAY bigger than you think.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/space-is-way-bigger-than-you-think

Space is way bigger than you think

Go ahead and think about it. Nope, it’s bigger. Try again. Nope, still too small. This game can go on a long time.

Bad Astronomy Newsletter

This might be the first ligature-driven “smart” font I like because it’s clear that you’re not actually meant to use it in a text editor or any other WYSIWYG app – it’s only for a coding text editor (the input is JSON). Clever.

https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype

Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

I almost missed a flight once because the luggage scanner flagged my running shoe for the suspicious electronic device hidden inside the sole…

https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/116624413122283980

This recent essay from @craigmod on consciousness and meditation and language is the most thought provoking thing I’ve read in some time.
https://craigmod.com/roden/112/#the-machines-dont-yet-look-inward
Meditation, Language, and LLMs — Roden Newsletter Archive

Meditation, Language, and LLMs — Roden Newsletter Archive

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

I am completely, unabashedly ABOUT this

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Look, I think you wrote some good words, or maybe you did…

I can’t tell because I’m stopped in my tracks by the shitty AI slop image you posted at the top of your article.

I know the Spelling Bee uses an American dictionary, but when a perfect pangram like this doesn’t count, it upsets me.
Living the meme…