Ross Goodwin on algorithmic prose, machines to make writing, neural networks, and more. Suddenly feel very inadequate; a reminder of what staring at a topic for a long while looks like.

You know, that's not a bad idea.

Lots of Lunetta-styled CMOS-based modules; some are very, very simple, lots of Ken Stone designs in there. Neat ideas to think on.

As used by fullest.house – perhaps something to play with in due course.

"A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) is a strategic business statement similar to a vision statement which is created to focus an organization on a single medium-long term organization-wide goal which is audacious, likely to be externally questionable, but not internally regarded as impossible." As discovered in this week's crit.

Aha, a really good explanation of scaling voltage so that it goes from 0-positive. Which I'm going to need.

Via gilest, an interesting looking self-hosted photo-sharing tool.

Giles is both good at writing and good at blogging. This was good reading after a set of long-distant train journeys for work this week.

"There are so many good stories to tell about relationships with some history. The stakes are higher than the stakes of a first crush; there’s all that context to add meaning to the interactions. The characters are invested in each other. And relationships between older people typically have involve juggling other responsibilities and commitments — jobs, children from previous relationships." Excellent stuff from Emily Short on all the *other* shapes of relationships you can show. (It made make think of two very different films I've seen recently that showed deep, adult, *sibling* relationships, for starters).

Wonderful – graphic design from an unreal 197X. Eurostile agogo!

God, this is horrendous: the awful state of the 'cheap smart home'.

Great interview with Jeremy Greenspan about the new Junior Boys album, and getting back in the saddle. One of my favourite bands, and an pleasantly honest, ordinary perspective.