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nitpicker here: enshitified or enshittified?

I've been in manufacturing for ~13 years across 5 different organizations. There'll inevitably come up a spreadsheet use case where you'll have to execute a well defined series of …

The company in question must be taking planned obsolescence very seriously or else with the R&D budget I assume they have, they would have come up with a nearly durable product by …

One explanation would be that if you are an "extreme" user, you are bound to find fault with all the offerings on the market. The need to tweak/customize/adapt naturally arises whe…

Assembly in auto plants relies on a parts bundling/feeding process that begins in advance, analogous to mise en place and cooking.

I wish Kenji did a piece on the components of an "ideal" salad.

I remember a PG tweet along the lines of "if faced with a choice between two things, pick the harder one".

A former version of sandberg.nl from circa 2005. It was Flash based and if I recall correctly the work of Luna Maurer, a Dutch designer. I am not sure it is safe to admit it here b…

Schliemann was a curious character--he seems to have been as much of a pillager as an archeologist. As a non-sequitur his personal story is a testament to how much more "globalized…