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worth reading: november 20, 2024-january 5, 2025
meant to send this in late December and then dropped the ball lol...better late than never! happy belated new year!
fun/heartwarming stuff section at the top this time:
fun/heartwarming stuff section at the top this time:
- “The Violin” by Zach Klein
- “IMG_0001” by Riley Walz
- “The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years” by Dan Kois and J. Bryan Lowder
- Lol My Thesis
- “Taiwanese barista wins 2024 World Latte Art championship” by Yu Hsiao-han and Bernadette Hsiao
- “Behind the Scenes with Wildlife Response: Overnight Walrus Care Shift” by the Alaska Sea Life Center
some great reporting:
- “Fatal Dose” by Barbara Wade Rose
- “The Invisible Man” by Patrick Fealey
some bangers from The Verge right before they put their paywall up:
- “How to Watch a Baby” by Kristen Radtke
- “Bad Influence” by Mia Sato
- “Friend or Faux?” by Josh Dzieza and Stormy Pyeatte
some fun design stuff:
- “Branded in Memory” by Signs.com
- “The UX of Lego Interface Panels” by George Cave
article that gets its own category because this grinds my gears so much:
- “Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars” by Nate Rogers
and finally, a group I dearly wish I was qualified to join (please read their About page):
✨special bonus new year's category✨—a non-exhaustive list of some random newsletters that I enjoyed in 2024:
- Counter Craft by Lincoln Michel (writing)
- Transfer Orbit by Andrew Liptak (science fiction)
- Making It Work by Youngna Park (parenting)
- I Heart Mess by Emily Kirkpatrick (celebrity fashion)
- Chris Arnade Walks the World by Chris Arnade (travel & walking around)
- Shop Rat by Emilia Petrarca (shopping)
- Rat Cruise by Vera Brosgol (art, the practice of science, & a very singular form of travel; no relation to Shop Rat)
- Paklan by Brian Lam (woodworking)
- my favorite local bookstore's mailing list
- & two local events/news publications, one of which I now pay for :)
✨✨extra special bonus new year's category✨✨—some favorite books from 2024, by the months in which I read them:
- Among the Braves by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin (January)
- Walking Practice by Dolki Min, trans. Victoria Caudle (February)
- Exordia by Seth Dickinson (March)
- Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (April)
- Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane (May)
- Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin (June)
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan (July)
- The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (August)
- I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko, trans. Bela Shayevich and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (September)
- Women We Buried, Women We Burned by Rachel Louise Snyder (October)
- Airplane Mode by Shahnaz Habib (November)
- What’s Cooking in the Kremlin by Witold Szabłowski, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (December)