Brad Barrish

I added an RSS feed to Linkity Link. You can now enjoy the links in the reader of your choice.

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I received my physical copy of Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading by Nadia Asparouhova and immediately started reading.

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Platform Reality from Robin Sloan is worth a read.

A quote by Robin Sloan emphasizes the web platform as a tool offering the opportunity for good work without demanding attention.

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Drawing inspiration from clone.fyi, I spent several hours building Linkity Link as a way to share certain links I bookmark on Raindrop. It uses HTML, CSS and JS and the Raindrop API. It was a fun exercise and I have a few more features I want to add. Feedback welcome.

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How’s your afternoon going?

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Absolutely FLOORED by Yancey’s TED talk. Been following him for many years and supporting his ideas, big and small. This is maybe the biggest of them all. A lot of people talk about supporting artists and creators, but Yancey has made it his mission and I truly believe it will be his legacy.

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I wonder when someone will recreate Plaxo or something like it. I have wondered this a lot. Contacts are another thing that continue to be an absolute mess, even in 2025. I use Obsidian as my personal information manager. As I meet people I make notes about them to help me remember things about them, when I met them, connections to other people, etc. Maybe I need to get working on an app for myself that can read and write to my contacts base in Obsidian. Hmmm.

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I took the kids to the No Kings protest in Culver City. It was great to see friends and so many people turn out. What’s happening, especially in Los Angeles, is absolutely terrible and scary. Feels like it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

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I installed the developer betas of iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 and boy do I dislike the new interface. It’s such a fucking mess, especially from an accessibility standpoint. Not good.

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20 years ago (on my 31st birthday!) Steve Jobs gave his now-famous Stanford commencement address. I’ve taken to watching it at least once a year, usually on or around my birthday. This year, The Steve Jobs Archive posted a “newly enhanced version” of the address along with some related relics. High recommended, even if you’ve seen it before. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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