I spent a lot of time talking about “Hark!” in December. Fun to have it show up in today’s mini crossword.

The best Olympics highlight so far comes from the NHL’s social media team.

Excellent work, no notes.

Glad to see at least some things are going the right way:

The word “unprecedented” is getting a workout after a grand jury in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026, rebuffed an attempt by federal prosecutors to get an indictment against perceived enemies of …

Every few months for the past several years, I’ve returned to this idea of getting an intuitive understanding of the vocabulary of different Biblical authors. I’m not sure there’s exegetical value, but every time I heard something …

I gave a talk this week on responsible autonomy in airports.

Tonight, I watched an “autonomous” wheelchair strand a passenger in the middle of a crowded concourse at MIA.

No obstacles. Clear path. It simply stopped.

The passenger had to be rescued by …

I’ve been watching ER recently, alongside the new season of The Pitt. (I’m a sucker for procedurals.)

The callbacks from Noah Wyle to… Noah Wyle… are numerous and frequent.

It’s like noticing the Friends commentary all over How I Met Your Mother.

Cowards! They skipped Fitter Happier.

This brewery is unapologetically playing straight through OK Computer. I’m loving it, but it’s most certainly a choice.

Write about the future you want - daverupert.com

I don’t have to look far to find people around me who have inspired me by writing about the future they want.

Writing isn’t the only tool—building is a an important one too—but it is a tool, and it’s …

I am about halfway through Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom, and I have just realized that it is the same conceit as the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Which is a far more adult novel/series.

I hope the second half shows I’m right.

I continue to appreciate my my new home airport. It was more crowded today than I’ve ever seen it, but I still got through TSA exactly 41 minutes after my Lyft picked me up.

The only way to make it better would be not flying to Miami during ski …

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills:

Here, AI creates a potential tension: as coding grows more automated and speeds up work, humans will still need the skills to catch errors, guide output, and ultimately provide oversight for …

Daring Fireball: Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’:

The only way to counter “move fast and break things” is to move fast and fix things.

Brent Simmons shared a great, and terrifying, and hopeful, email from his family living in Minnesota, about what’s happening there.

Seventeen People is a perfect use of the Web.

I wish to put things like this into the world.

Here are the books I finished reading in 2025.

Observations: I was aiming for 24 and ended up with 16, 7 of which were audiobooks, all completed during road trips. Only one “growth” book this year: Tiny Experiments.

Best book: The Book …

Lego Gingerbread AT-AT: all done and lovely. The interior got a wreath!

Lego Gingerbread AT-AT: bag 4 gives it frosted feet. Which I assume means that, in this universe, canonically, Hoth is not an ice planet but an icing planet.

Lego Gingerbread AT-AT: Bag 3 gives it some form. This guy is a lot more stable than they look in the movies…

Lego Gingerbread AT-AT: Making progress… bag 2 is also full of whimsy. Whoever designed this set loved Lego and Star Wars and Christmas. What a treat.

The Lego Gingerbread AT-AT has more Christmas, more story, and more satisfaction in Bag 1 than that entire Advent calendar did.

Posting an interior photo now because I bet this entire milieu gets covered up in the final assembly.