Notices by Parker Higgins (xor@tech.intersects.art)

10 years ago today I published a blog post about the pomological watercolor collection, which you may know from @pomological. it changed my life in some surprising ways! take a little trip with me down memory lane https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/

wish i was still blogging

pretty bummed out watching a friend who was previously sort of low-information on politics going further and further right on her news sources to find continuing support for her israel positions

Paid per-subscriber full-text RSS feeds could be an important next step for the web media ecosystem. People totally use the tech for podcasts, too! I'm hopeful that this announcement marks an inflection point https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/

@Moon that does not affect the fact that the "house style" is always some tedious anodyne blog voice and I am sure young writers are emulating it, consciously or not

one of the more depressing things about LLMs is that the "house style" is always some tedious anodyne blog voice and I am sure young writers are emulating it, consciously or not

I'm quoted in this great @404mediaco article about a recent spate of takedowns from the New York Times to GitHub over Wordle variants. Shameful behavior, completely against the spirit of the communities that fostered Wordle's creation and success https://www.404media.co/nytimes-files-copyright-takedowns-against-hundreds-of-wordle-clones/

what's the quickest little server to serve _only_ 301 redirects to a given page? I had a reason to do that yesterday and was surprised that I couldn't do it in a one-liner

good work everyone, looking at my chart here we've increased the amount of february almost 4% YoY

just had a ciabatta moment* when I learned that chicken tenders are believed to have been invented in 1974?!

* a ciabatta moment is when you realize a food is way newer than you thought, named for the fact that ciabatta was invented in 1982

i can sort of understand why some people have continued using twitter but i cannot for the life of me imagine what motivates people to call it X

@monsieuricon i find it's easy to keep them straight with the simple mnemonic: if they're rhomboids connected, that's tidal detected. if the dots do not touch, it's @tailscale (or some such)

this is such an important story that does not get enough attention because the "porn" headline is so salacious. individual US states legislating access to parts of the web is a big deal and only likely to get worse https://www.404media.co/north-carolina-montana-pornhub-blocked-vpn/

it is so so so rewarding to unexpectedly hear and understand things in an intentionally learned language

it feels like it should be easy to pull up a screenshot (with burned in subtitles) of every line in every television show ever made. and it is not!

i have to admit, it got me with this one

If it doesn't have an RSS feed it's not a podcast. Spotify could never have been a good steward of "podcasting" because they've never been in the podcasting game

I just donated to @freedomofpress to help protect journalists, whistleblowers, and our right to know. You can too: https://freedom.press/donate

so new books are like $40 now huh

@schlink lmao that is LITERALLY the exact book that prompted this!!