Lisa Yoder

made myself a syllabus for 2026. it's more fun than it sounds lisayoder.is/2026-a-sylla...

Why by far?

The obvious thing here is that these are addiction behaviors, which makes me wonder about the intermittent reinforcement schedule and the built-in delays (currently conceived of as eventually fixable bugs) as significant factors.

what's everyone's static site generator of choice these days?

where are we getting stickers printed these days?

the way a child can go from being pale and lethargic, clutching a bucket in their bed at 7:30am, to bounding around the house asking for a meal by 10am should be studied

Lloyd Smucker has harmed his reputation all on his own. This is a laughable waste of time and resources. lancasteronline.com/news/local/c...

Contrast this with Shirley Jackson:

“The actual act of taking pen to paper…occurred on snatched time, in common spaces. Jackson’s children recall her writing in the middle of baking, perched on a kitchen stool or wedged at a folding table in the dining room.”

Which takes the greater discipline?

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

laying out a zine in canva just makes me want redo the whole thing in markup and use css

Come back | everything changes A habit is built on the movement of return.

"A habit is built on the movement of return. It’s coming back to something, again and again, in precise rhythms or otherwise, that transforms an effort into a habit, an act of will into an act of way." everythingchanges.us/blog/come-ba...

sounds totally normal to meeee

it's definitely my least favorite part

Silver lining of forgetting that daycare is closed today is not having to plan my entire day around when I will pump or wash any pumping/bottle related items. Was only mentally prepared to share the house with one (almost) self-sufficient child though.

This one’s so brazen and vile it makes the LAST local guy in the news for selling human body parts look almost normal 🥴

I live in Lancaster County and we are FOR SURE talking about it here.

Philly people—my good friend is missing, please keep a look out and please call the number below if you have any info at all.

Explaining the concept of colonization at 7am wasn’t something I anticipated about parenting

These goofy billboards were up when i lived in Myanmar. They explicitly justify authoritarian force by blaming everything on “external elements” and “foreign nations.” Just something to think about when they use the words “foreign invaders” to justify assassinating an American poet.

turns out i lived to regret the procrastination weeks anyway

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes It’s here!

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays!

webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

listen I love you joy is coming

when its definitely not a hostage situation

turns out the key to being only slightly overwhelmed this time of year is to start planning everything out at the beginning of november, so that by the end of november, i've actually started doing some things. built-in procrastination weeks, baby!

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

I'm curious if you ever found a decent replacement?

this is such a great list

big day for aloof wives everywhere

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)

www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.