Slow down there, Jeff Gordon :)

Nah, you're absolutely right. The current passages are 250-300 words.

We'll get them to 400-420 so aliens like your wife can also find their font

Cool idea! You mean they’d try to beat their WPM best?

What’d be the interaction pattern you’re imagining? First they find their fastest font, then the flow continues to let them use that font to try to get better? Other times they can bypass the font test.

Do you have any reading content suggestions?

I’m imagining they could choose the topic and we’d have a bunch of prebaked stories or information about each.

I guess we can also let them input their first name, or just initials — we validate from a list of common-ish names (so they don’t put something too whacky) — and then the stories or information could include their names. Makes it even more fun and engaging to read. Especially if we the prebaked reading material is positive and empowering. Sesame Street style.

Really like the suggestion. Thanks!

Thank you. Really appreciate it. It was super fun to make/build

Will definitely work on that feature. Thanks for checking it out

Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I've ever done. Why? The cigarette creates the tension. The next one releases it. The trap is elegant.

Storytelling works the same way. So does songwriting. So does film. You create tension. You release it. You create it again. The whole game is knowing when.

True, though in practice “value” is usually whatever Spencer and Tina decide after they reconcile 2023’s underspend, 2024’s overspend, and next quarter’s political goals.

Keep truckin’, Ted. That feature’s gonna win us the contract. Probably.

Software rarely runs on code alone. It runs on fear, incentives, and the subtle art of not getting blamed.

This is a satirical magazine built from that truth — and I’d love feedback on whether it lands, what’s missing, or what stories you’d want to see next.

> what’s missing

Sitcom laugh track

Q1 2026. We’re fighting w leadership on budget approval for the laugh track and a mid-episode freeze-frame.

Is it too big-brother-ish?

If done right, it serves the interests of society (early detection of pandemic hotspots, for example).

But we know that governments all over the world are going to misuse that, so it's unlikely to happen. Unless it's already being done in secret.

PHACTS is an innovative government software system that harnesses the power of real-time search trend data from OpenAI, Bing, and Google to identify public health problems on hyper-local, local, regional, countrywide, and worldwide scales.

[SPOOF but would be cool]

The UX/UI debate and how we should be doing UX research