1. Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is quite different depending on how you read. Looking at a Hokusai picture (via @soonleenz@wandering.shop) 📖

2. An amazing infographic (created by @leahdriel@fediscience.org): A classification table of mother sauces and their common derivates 🍳

I read Babel, by R.F. Kuang. Choose the audiobook: it’s uniquely suited to the medium. This story is alternative history with magic, but it’s not escapist fantasy. It’s also not easy or comfortable to read (no spoilers), but these are often traits of an excellent book. 📚

As a devotee of RSS, the rise of newsletters continues to mystify me. But I’ve adapted. Today, there are some newsletters I enjoy, but I’ve never liked inbox delivery. So this is the best thing I learned about this week: kill-the-newsletter.com 📖

Well this is new to me and I love it: Music for Programming 🎶

I upgraded to Fedora 37 and like it. I intend to write a longer post to explain why I run this in a VM on a Mac Studio. But perhaps the root of it is that it just makes me happy. That said, there’s more backstory to share that’s about the joy of reviving old laptops — a minor obsession that began with Puppy Linux in 2007.