Ok, so I am going to try something new. I'm going to call these "QuickTakes" after what they are and the first digital camera I remember seeing, completely blowing my young mind. I basically want to share good things that I’ve read and add a
Soft reboot for a hard landing. This is Interoperable, a many-year-old project by Tyler Dickey (me, using my actual meat fingers to type this) that’s just been migrated to MY OWN SHIT (a data centre (boo!) in Germany (indifferent?)). Things will be up and running here shortly,
Hello again, sweet, beautiful INTEROPERABLE readers! All of the tree blossoms seem to have exploded seemingly overnight, and the days have inched ever longer. The clocks are set to British Summer Time. Rejoice! Like the sunshine in London, Tom Scott is back. His return project: visit every county in England—
Dear INTEROPERABLE reader, It’s your thrice-day-delayed onset muscle soreness here, a dull reminder as you reach for the peanut butter that you’re trying to stick to that New Year’s resolution to take better care of yourself—and it might just be working. Keep up the
Hello, beautiful INTEROPERABLE readers! Tyler Dickey here. Yes, I am a dude, and my love language is sharing videos from the internet. Welcome to the 18th edition of this sporadic, sophomoric publication. Late autumn into early winter is an excellent time to reflect and reset well before the craziness of
Dear beautiful Interoperable readers, full disclosure: I’m on a bit of an upswing; things might get weird in a hopefully fun, manic way. (In truth, I wrote that opening line six—maybe seven—weeks ago; I was, in fact, not on an upswing. But it feels wrong to delete
Photo: An open and overgrown BT / Openreach street cabinet. Alexadra Palace Park, London, UK June 2025. Photo by the author. Ciao amici miei! It's Tyler here—that Sicilian waiter who was happy you were trying your rudimentary Italian and brought you a limoncello on the house—I wanted
Bonjour, hola, and hello dear INTEROPERABLE readers. Welcome to another interstitial edition of this intermittent publication. Thank you for being here! I'm sorry if you are one of the approximately three people waiting for part two of My Syllabus, I hope it will be worth the wait! In
Hello INTEROPERABLIANS, I'm pausing our regular numbered post to start work on a new project: a syllabus loosely based on Cristina Jerney's project, A Syllabus for Generalists. Basically, it's a therapeutic exercise in figuring out how I think about things and sharing those things
Bonjour and hello INTEROPERABLE-ians! 2025 is off to a bit of a false start. It's taken me this whole week to regain even the slightest head of steam and feel like I have some legs under me. I hope you are well and are slicing bravely into
Greetings, Interoperable readers near and far! It is time to delve into the long-overdue second edition of what will hopefully become a "mindful" media consumption series (See Part One here). Personal recommendations as an antidote to algorithmically mediated slop: * Bricks & Disorder (YouTube) Cullen and Ola are
Fig. 1: A #50 flashbulb in comparison to a modern-day can of Pepsi Cola for scale, the subject of "the vision deleter" Source: eBay Hello, Interoperable readers. Welcome back. I missed you. As many of you may know, I am hopelessly addicted to internet videos, especially the