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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 01/10/2026

Close enough. Welcome back 2014’s Sony QX100

Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/05/2026

After a handful of failed attempts, the under desk Mac Studio mount project has reclaimed its place as my current hyperfixation.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 15/04/2026

brb just updating the firmware on my water bottle

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 10/04/2026

It's already infuriating to get an undismissable advertisement in System Settings menu, but couldn't they at least align the notification pimple properly?

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/03/2026

Podcast apps could fix this today. Crawl every link in show notes for RSS feeds and Schema‍.org podcast metadata — the same way RSS readers already detect feeds behind web pages. If a link points to a podcast, open it natively. Subscribe, preview, play. No browser redirect.

Subscribing to Podnews Daily in Airshow by searching for the root domain

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/03/2026

Apple is partway there. Timed Links in Apple Podcasts can detect when a host mentions another show and link right to it. But the links only go to Apple Podcasts pages. It's a closed-loop version of something that should be an open standard. It’s the behavior you’d want from every podcast app.

Timed Links within Apple Podcasts in iOS 26.2 beta 1

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/03/2026

Podcasting is an internet-born medium that never really grew up on the web. Most episodes have a canonical URL, but nobody sends listeners there. The browser isn't where podcasts happen. Your podcast app is. And that shaped everything about discovery.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 24/02/2026

Our relationship in a nutshell

Me: Anyway, be proud I resisted the urge to
buy another domain name. [redacted] is very reasonably-priced 👀

Her: You buy domain names the way I buy
books. 😂

Me: unfortunately, books don't come with
renewal fees 😅

Her: I think you mean "fortunately". I'd probably still buy them even if they did.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 20/02/2026

Update: I downloaded Apple's USDZ model, which they use for AR previews, and described exactly what I wanted to Claude Code. It extracted measurements, generated an OpenSCAD file, and rendered this turnaround in Blender. Sent it off to print, excited to see how it turns out!

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 30/12/2025

Now I just need to mount my Mac Studio on the other side. My first attempt at a 3D-printed solution was a failure. If you can help, please reach out.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 30/12/2025

Built a PC this weekend and mounted it underneath my sit/stand desk.

A black mid-tower PC suspended in mid-air mounted below a white standing-height desk

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 14/10/2025

If you use Google as spell check, has it gotten worse lately? Tapping the “Did you mean ___?” link looks correct at first glance, but the search box reverts once you tap into it.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 25/08/2025

I’m working on a project that displays Unicode characters like “☰ Trigram For Heaven.” Turns out that the names aren’t available in JavaScript, so I added a dependency to fetch them. It’s kinda wild how much bigger it is than the rest of my codebase. 🤯

Bundle analyzer screenshot showing a massive percentage of my app is just Unicode names

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 08/07/2025

Today, I’m thrilled to share that Spotify has returned Podlink to my care! After four and a half years, Podlink is back with its original founder, and I’m excited about what’s ahead.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 28/03/2025

After 3.5 years in Printer's Row, it's time for a new view 😍

A photo of an empty room with hardwood floors, beige walls, and a central bay window framed by three tall sections with white blinds. The room is lit naturally from the windows, and the view outside shows a brick building. The floorboards are glossy and reflect light, and there are white baseboards along the walls. The ceiling is flat and painted white, creating a clean, minimalist look.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 13/03/2025

Hopefully, each night here will stay this clear!

The Northern Lights above a collection of teepees glowing with internal lights.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 10/03/2025

brb, off to see the Northern Lights!

Map showing a flight route from Chicago, stopping over in Calgary, and ending in Yellowknife.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 26/02/2025

@grafera.zone FYI, the Bluesky link on your website is pointing to your old handle. (Switching to a custom domain doesn’t hold it for you.)

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/11/2024

In this case, don’t blame the journalists either! The Verge article you linked explicitly called out the potential for other parties to crawl Bluesky data.

Other companies could still potentially scrape your Bluesky posts for
training. Bluesky's robots.txt doesn't exclude crawlers from Google,
OpenAl, or others, meaning those companies may crawl Bluesky data.
"Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on
the Internet itself," spokesperson Emily Liu tells The Verge. "Just as
robots.txt files don't always prevent outside companies from crawling
those sites, the same applies here. That said, we'd like to do our part to
ensure that outside orgs respect user consent and are actively
discussing within the team on how to achieve this."

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 27/11/2024

I’ve got less than 50 posts on Bluesky, but somehow, my following count has just surpassed my Twitter. 🤷‍♂️

A graph of my following count over time starting in March 2023, culminating in nearly 1400 followers

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 19/11/2024

Not my preferred solution, but Podcasting 2.0 folks would likely support enhancing their existing tag that maintains backwards-compatibility for hosts/clients.

A suggestion for how social handles for hosts might be implemented in the Podcast Namespace standard that creates new attributes like activitypub, bluesky, threads for feeds to include social handles.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 13/11/2024

I have a lot of fun shooting product photography of my partner’s ceramics, and it kills me that no one gets to see them in their hi-res glory.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,925!

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 24/08/2024

Starting off the #xoxofest conference talks with @molly.wiki

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 21/08/2024

✈️ I’ll be in Portland Thursday through Monday for the very last #XOXOFest 😭 Who else is going? I’m attending solo and terrible at approaching people at events like this. Hit me up if you wanna hang out!

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 25/01/2024

Apple’s added support for transcripts! And surprisingly, it’s not just their own auto-generated transcripts They’re also supporting the `<podcast:transcript>` tag! podcasters.apple.com/support/5316...

A screenshot of transcripts in Apple Podcasts!

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 22/05/2023

Oh wow. On the web, Bluesky’s expanded image view really prioritizes getting all the text on screen.

Bluesky’s expanded image view on a desktop browser, where the alt text takes up 80% of the window and the image itself takes up 1.10% of the window.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 15/05/2023

You, an amateur: I’m taking Friday off for Zelda! Me: I’m renting a cabin in the woods through Tuesday

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 04/05/2023

Help me pick the colors for this branding

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 26/04/2023

FYI: if you have an Apple Silicon Mac, you can install the Bluesky iOS app on your desktop. Unfortunately, Apple scales everything down to 77% by default. So it feels like a social network for ants.

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Nathan Gathright @nathang.co · 24/04/2023

What do you use to generate charts for blog posts? I’m using Pitch right now, and it strikes a nice balance between Google Sheets and Figma for ease of use and design controls

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