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
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Hello Interoperable Readers, For the 11th edition of Interoperable, I wanted to pivot from my normal tech-nerd topics into something more personal. I've wanted to write about teaching and teachers for a long time now. Finding the correct words that felt sincere and honest enough to live
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Hello, dear Interoperable readers, A core tenet of this here fancy internet publication is maintainability. A side-effect of maintaining yourself, your stuff, your plants, and/or your dog is amassing a small collection of useful tools. For the 10th edition, I've assembled a list of four useful
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Hello/Salut Interoperable readers! I'll spare as much of the New Year dribble as I can. This year will be less about setting challenging goals and more about maybe "themes?" to borrow a term from the venerable duo of Myke Hurley and CGP Grey. This year&
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Hello Interoperable readers! And welcome to August 2022. These days I now see August with two faces. As a kid, August would mean an end to summer holiday freedom and a return to school with its rigour on the one hand and beautiful friendships on the other. As an adult,
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Hello Interoperable readers, June was merely a decent reading month, not the great reading month I might have hoped for. I must admit that news from my home country that Women's rights are being stripped away has made my largely escapist reading habit hard to keep up with.
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Alright, we're halfway through 2022, the year where I've tried to be more intentional about my reading. I have also attempted to be more deliberate and thoughtful about other media consumption. One thing I take seriously is personal recommendations or recommendations that come from creators I
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Greetings Interoperable readers! (Nearly all half dozen of you!) Another month has passed and it's time to recap my mission to attempt to read five books a month, every month for 2022: 1. Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into
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Whew! April was not a kind month. Between (finally?) catching the virus and travelling in haste to care for an ailing relative, I did not dig as deeply into my reading backlog as I would have liked. Frustratingly I only completed a single book in April 2022: Atlantic: Great Sea
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Interoperable readers! Maybe you're new here or have forgotten about my 2022 Reading Challenge, there are some rules/goals I set for myself. Basically, I want to try to complete five books each month for all of 2022. Here are the books and some notes for March: 1.
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“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”— President Dwight D. Eisenhower Alright, so I am riding a self-care high. I just left my 4th incredibly productive therapy session, I'm listening to Judge John Hodgman, and I am ready to… process my notes in a semi-public way
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In my current note-taking application of choice, I have a small section called "External Brain" where I dump handy nuggets that I think will be useful or that I am in the process of internalising. I thought for the launch of the title of this newsletter thing
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Time to go over another month of my 2022 reading challenge (rules are posted here). Overall, February was anxious and not a personally productive month. I can probably write a whole post on the whys and hows behind that. But overall, I'm pretty proud of the reading and