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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 08/10/2026

Fyi at a certain point they just start making you a "you're old" mix and then slap a random label on it.

A screenshot of a Spotify mix titled "Chill mix" featuring Johnny Cash, Aphex Twin, and the most chill band ever. Fugazi.

Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 09/09/2026

Learning about the origin of the name - Caran d'ache - of these fancy Swiss colored pencils (that I envied as a kid) kind of blew my mind. (если ты знаешь, ты знаешь)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 04/08/2026

The whole collection as an ensemble is also good. Bottom left center one reads, "I'm pro-sexualizing the green M&M, AND I VOTE!"

A pic of the full rear of the car -- a Subaru of course. The two aforementioned ones are in the right corner, then a FUCK ICE one, and the M&M one mentioned in this post.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 04/08/2026

This car is actually from Maine but god I love New England bumper sticker culture.

Two bumper stickers, one above the other. The first says "CRASH INTO ME!!!" (This is not a Dave Matthews lyric, it's a cry for help)

The second says, "Keep honking! I'm listening to John Cage's 4:33 and you're a part of the piece now"

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 29/07/2026

On my walk home today. Pretty common for where I live but I feel like this one needs to be featured anyway. .

A picture of a large-ass turkey. Maybe 30" tall?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 14/07/2026

Wow, just when you think you e seen every bumper sticker under the sun, the world surprises you.

A bumper sticker that says, "oh no, I accidentally got too stoned at the art museum and found the meaning of life in 19th C impressionism, again!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 09/07/2026

Considering starting to post old pics I find on my phone that deserve the light of day. This is a late 15th century painting of the Kunta Hora silver mines (Czechia), taken in the Hungarian National Museum.

A close up of part of a painting that shows a very busy scene with many small figures inside a blue-grey underneath the earth and an equally busy but more colorful above ground part of the image on top.

A detail of the painting that shows a lot of small figures in a state of action. There is no perspective here...the image is very flat and the hues are tans, beiges, and browns.

A photo of the entire painting, with the underground mine scene at the bottom and the above ground part occupying the top 2/3rd of the tall and narrow canvas.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/06/2026

I had to look up Kontextmaschine and I still don't know what that represents/is but the description feels somewhat right? I'm sorry I had to read so much Foucault in grad school and I'll never be able to escape it.

Screenshot text:

The Kontextmaschine
patron saint: kontextmaschine
It's real, it's powerful, and you find the panic about it as tedious as the hype. You're not interested in whether AI is good or bad — you're interested in who captures the value, who loses their leverage, and which institutions are using it as a story to do what they were already doing. Same as it ever was.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/06/2026

Wait I can't believe that Uber made Cabracadabra.

An image from BoJack Horseman with a purple banner hanging about a group of seated people, and Todd Chavez on his phone underneath the banner. The banner reads, in large white text, Cabracadabra. We put women in the driver's seat.

A screenshot from Uber showing an option called "Women Drivers. Rides by women, for women.'

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 26/05/2026

Rest of the message. Alt text in first two images has the entire message.

We have some difficult news to share: Clover will be closing our doors this week. Thursday, May 28th will be our final day of restaurant service and meal box delivery.

For 17 years, we have championed local farms and served tens of thousands across Greater Boston. We’re deeply saddened to share this news—for our employees, New England farmers, and you, our guests and supporters.

From the very first day on the MIT food truck in 2008, we’ve loved making food for you. The kind of food that gets under your skin, that you dream about. The kind of food that tells you where it came from. The Chickpea Fritter. The Brussels. The Japanese Sweet Potato. The Zucchini.

The kind of food you can’t get anywhere else.

If you walked into Clover today, the staff are smiling, the tables are sparkling, and the fritters smell amazing, so this news might seem like a surprise.

So what’s happened? We’ve always prized transparency along Clover’s journey. Our current situation isn’t a unique story. In the best of times, restaurants are a tough business: margins are thin, building new restaurants is expensive, and our industry is the most exposed to macroeconomic forces. For years we’ve been navigating the hangover effects of COVID and inflation at every part of our supply chain, but we are proud to have remained committed to sourcing high-quality ingredients from local farms.

Today, everyone is getting hit with rising costs—food prices are up, delivery prices are up, and a hundred other costs are moving in the same direction…even the less flashy things like cardboard and fry oil. Across the board, our ingredients cost 30-50% more today than they did just 2 years ago. Our farmers are experiencing the same pressures we are.

At Clover, we’ve raised prices some, of course, but there is a limit—every one of you is likely thinking about how you save and spend right now too.

We’re deeply saddened about the circumstances. Especially for our 170 employees—you’ll never find a more standout group of dedicated, mission-driven, awesome people who deeply care about their work.

So what now? We still have 2 days together. Share a favorite memory with us. Come in, enjoy some of your favorites, and let the staff know you’ll miss them. We’ll certainly miss all of you.

You helped make Clover beautiful and unique, and in doing so, you helped change the world for the better. We should all be very proud of that.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 24/05/2026

Cambridge local post: Finally went to Third Time Together (next to Kendall SW Cinema) to try their ice cream and honestly it was mind-blowingly good. Like, look at these flavors. Cannot recommend enough to local followers with an adventurous ice cream palate. www.thirdtimetogether.co/menu

A screenshot of a part of the ice cream menu at Third Time Together. The pictured flavors are:

The Hojicha Card Never Declines
Rich frozen custard infused with Kettl's hōjicha and green, black, and red cardamom

Valrhona in Valhalla
Luxurious Valrhona chocolate gelato enhanced by flake salt

CMC (Chocolate, Mahlab, and Cocoa)
Chocolate ice cream with a swirl of mahlab-spiced cherry and chunks of cocoa mahlab cherry cookies

Preserved Bergamot Bars
Tart lemon and labne ice cream with chunks of salty preserved bergamot and shortbread

The Myth of Marco Polo II
Shiso ice cream with a stream of oriado dark chocolate chips throughout

Merchant of Baghdad
Maple and fenugreek gelato with a bright yellow streak of amba sauce (Iraqi-Jewish mango sauce)

Herbs in the Field
Lemon thyme and rosemary ice cream with a ripple of white chocolate fudge with Kettl's matcha

Basil Cheong
Sour green plum ice cream with notes of basil and chewy apricot pate de fruits

Perfumed Rice [vegan]
Broken Cup teahouse's jasmine green tea and jasmine rice with housemade ginger pineapple tepache

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 13/05/2026

For those of you who didn't take an architectural history survey course as an undergrad, this is the work of the "form follows function" guy.

An image of the Guarantee Building in Buffalo, NY, shown at a 45 degree angle to the building from the opposite corner of the intersection.

The building is medium height...perhaps 12 or 13 stories, and is orange brown in color. Famously, the exterior of the building is organized into three parts vertically: a base which is the bottom two(?) floors and where windows are more horizontal than vertical in aspect, the middle section where continuous vertical "stripes" span from top to bottom with obvious floor delineations -- horizontal spans -- recessed behind and visually deemphasized, and a top cornice section with small round windows and significant vegetal-inspired ornament. (Shown up close in the next image)

A close of the ornament at the top of the Guarantee Building in Buffalo NY. Read description on previous image for full context.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 26/04/2026

IS OFFICE SPACE ACTUALLY REFERENCING SATANTANGO!?!?! :)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/04/2026

If you never hear from me again, I'll be here.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 20/04/2026

Browsing some fonts and just loved the content of this paragraph of sample text from OH No Type. ohnotype.co So thankful to have gotten this from architecture school!

Transcription of text in font sample:
Man, I didn't learn anything in art school. Psych! I learned a ton: how to critique, how to be critiqued. How to be a litigator for decisions. How every choice should be justified, logical, and systematic. And then I learned sometimes to throw all that out the window. That’s what happened with Ohno Casual.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 10/04/2026

The feminine urge to change my LinkedIn profile pic to this. (LinkedIn is so humorless, I can't really resist....though sadly I will.)

A picture of Big Head from Silicon Valley sitting in a lecture hall with a gigantic Double Big Gulp (maybe 1L in volume?) in front of him, looking dazed and confused and attentive all at the same time.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 03/04/2026

Feel like so much theory could come back here!

A photo of the book Formless by Yve Alain-Bois and Rosalind Krauss.

A scan of the first page of the chapter 1440: The Smooth and the Striated from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 23/03/2026

Fyi, your images are cut off on my mobile device and there is no way to scroll right to see the end of the image, which I'd imagine is pretty important in this context.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/03/2026

Learning from the best about moving fast and breaking the UI. ;) In all seriousness, I'm finding calibrating speed of release and UI correctness to be an interesting challenge! (This is absolutely not a dig/critical post, tbc)

A screenshot from console.claude.com that shows a ton of overlapping text, etc, in a mobile screenshot.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/02/2026

Like, that would be truly useful! Also, how do you do it without constant monitoring of everything? (Panopticon gifs are truly lacking)

A screenshot of a search for a panopticon gifs with less than good results)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 10/02/2026

Interesting to see your choices! I semi-consciously stuck to really plain words. In retrospect I think I was thinking about kind of platonic forms of things -- so went for things like pause rather than interregnum. :)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 27/01/2026

How it's going! NGL I love a job well done.

A picture from the same angle with a full car exposed, and a 3 and a half foot trench of snow around most of it except where an opening has been cleared.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 27/01/2026

Well, if anyone wants me, I'll be here for the next, oh...week? (Note to all: this is a really really bad spot for snow parking)

A picture of a mountain of snow with a green shovel. Stuck in it and the smallest amount of a car visible, buried under the snow.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 21/01/2026

Music: Sooo many blog sites with tag clouds that looked like this, from that amazing era when the internet made global dance/beats music have a real moment and dj/rupture had a show on WFMU. This is from soundgoods.wordpress.com

a screenshot of a word cloud. This is the list of words in the cloud:

3Ball Afro Afro-Brazilian Afrobeat Afro House Angola Argentina Axé Axé Melody Bass Bondoro Bossa Nova Brazil Breakbeat Breaks Choro Colombia Criolla Cumbia Cumbia Sonidera Cumbia Villera Dancehall Dangdut Downtempo Drum'n'Bass Drum´n´Bass Dub Electro Electrobrega Electronic Eletro Funk Eletro Melody Experimental Forró Funk Funk Carioca Fusion Hip Hop House Indonesia Instrumental Japan Jazz Kuduro Latin M'bila M'bira Manguebeat Maracatu Marrabenta Mexico Mozambique MPB Musica Negra Pandza Peru Psychodelic Ragga Rap Reggae Reggaeton Salsa Samba Sambajazz Sambarock Ska Suingue Technocumbia Tecno Brega Timbila Trap Tribal Tribal Guarachero Trip Hop World

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 09/01/2026

How it started / how it's going (details later, but...it has been a journey)

A screenshot showing a bunch of LinkedIn job alerts

A screenshot showing no LinkedIn job alerts

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 06/01/2026

Cleaning out a computer and found the only cat meme/pun I've ever made. Feel like it needs to go on the internet somewhere, though I should probably post in some discord for engineers with a Gaudi fetish. (It is a catenary arch. In the words of Bojack Horseman, do you get it? do you get my joke?)

An image of a cat hanging from some rope inside and arched building, which a mirror on the floor.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 28/11/2025

Sure, it's my fault for engaging in this convo in the first place. (The first part of the movie was so hard to watch that I asked if the film got easier to watch, since I had used ChatGPT to get the film rec.)

I tell it that this is one of the worst hallucinations I've ever experienced.

It says "I completely screwed up...I am not going to guess again. Please just tell me one detail and I'll work from that."

Last screenshot!

Then it says, I literally don't know. Please tell me one thing so I can make more shit up. (Okay. It doesn't admit that it still wants to make shit up but it says, "I need you to tell me one literal detail...")

I stopped after this.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 28/11/2025

Getting some new-to-me levels of bad hallucinations from GPT 5.1. This thing is like a student in a class who writes a whole essay about the book they didn't read. Except 10x more awful.

A screenshot of a dumb-ass convoy with ChatGPT about the film Réflection.

It talks knowingly about the last scene of the film and a father and son.

Here you see item 1 but it goes on for 6 items.

Then (after the 6 items), I say, WTF you are just making shit up.

And it does its "you're right to call that out" bullshit.

It ends by saying, "I won't try to guess again." I tell it ...there is no son in the whole movie. It does the "you're absolutely right" bit ...

THEN it tells me that if I just give it one hint. It will get it right. I say, it takes place in a theater.

And it says, "thank you. That's the anchor I needed." And proceeds to ...hallucinate again.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 20/10/2025

If you are a dev + a Chrome user, have you enabled side-by-side view yet? It is SO GOOD. (chrome://flags) It is split-screen but in one browser tab so you can maximize your browser + not do the thing where for 5 seconds you have perfectly split screen windows + then have to move one and ruin it.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 19/10/2025

I also am still (after a few mins of looking) confused by the 'API Reference' page. :) That link does not lead to documentation? Maybe this is a work in progress? Is this supposed to be for an endpoint where you can programmatically access docs? or the docs themselves?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 19/10/2025

Your 'active' underline on the top navbar (Start/Products/etc) is really visually faint and far away from the label itself - it's the same weight as links in text. So, easy for someone to miss. If it could be heavier (3px+) and not coincident with the bottom of navbar I think it would read better.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/10/2025

So, for webkit browsers/Safari, it looks like there IS antialiasing, applied via a WP theme. (Toggling it changed nothing here). Otherwise the properties are pretty vanilla?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/10/2025

Yeah, you are the second person to report that. I'm in Chrome (on windows) but what is weird is that in the foundry's page for the font, it is way better, even on the same machine/browser.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/10/2025

Are there any typography people out there who can speculate about the thinking behind this font? This is one of those times where I'm like, "I don't get it and I'm pretty sure its me."

A screenshot of text from an article. The height of some lowercase characters (e.g. 's') is different from others ('e', 'c', 'v') and the lowercase 'r' is quite the shape.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 11/10/2025

Look at how much more legible this is by changing just 3 CSS properties in DevTools -- give containing element for each method a different background color and a border, and turn off internal borders. And lots more could be done -- with spacing, color choice, and typography -- to improve this.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 11/10/2025

I realize everyone is trying their best so I don't really like calling people out, but like, here's an example. Literally the *styling choices* here are making this impossible to read.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 03/10/2025

Some thoughts from the Tallinn airport: 1. Truly not ready to go back to the US. 2. Odd to me how much Tallinn reminds me of Singapore -- ungodly clean, very safe (8 yr old kids without parents everywhere), very e-convenient. Also uncomfortable weather for the most part (though still nice now).

A picture of a residential area in Tallinn, with kids walking to school, a wood house, and also some more modern buildings as well.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 27/09/2025

In Riga and actually shed a tear over the Art Nouveau architecture here. The first one is by Mikhail Eisenstein, Sergei's father. Other two I don't know...the little green guy is among the more quotidien of the AN buildings here but checkout those little I-beams! (And how the web is scalloped)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 17/09/2025

How long before companies start rolling out a new editing bar paragraph style button that bolds the first semantic unit of your line of text to easily match ChatGPT outputs?

A screenshot of Confluence with the words before an em dash in each item in a numbered list bolded. The screenshot is a clipped image of the page that shows just a bit of text and the editing bar.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2025

The semi-let down of a conclusion, also mildly funny.

My mom replies that she had to give up because it was "TMI" about boxes.

But then I mention the episode about pallets and she says that maybe my dad would like that.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2025

Omg, this happened!!!!! (Pretty sure I have never recommended to my boomer parents and if I have, it was in like 2021.) CC: @weisenthal.bsky.social

A screenshot of texts with my mom. She tells me she is listening to a podcast episode on boxes and I ask in all caps if she is listening to Odd Lots!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 10/09/2025

Thankful for when people get back from PTO in a good mood and decide to take initiative and submit PRs for things they think are important. :)

A GitHub PR of an ascii banana-dance banana with a console.log of that banana that a dev wants to merge into the codebase. My review: "Can we move this to a global constants file rather than inlining? Otherwise lgtm."

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 08/09/2025

I always like this "look up" moment of the Boston Architectural College and Prudential Building behind it. Finally took a pic today.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/08/2025

What are you talking about, you could get this 500 SF gem for only $575k!!!! 😜 (Just saw this listing and your post crossed paths with my, "this is madness" sentiment, sorry!) www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/08/2025

Looking at the global Strava heat map for the first time in forever (I guess it's the default background now) and WOW these two clipped views say so much.

A map of the United States with blue - indicating Strava activity - concentrated on the east coast and then pretty sparse elsewhere.

The same Strava heat map of Europe. Much of Western Europe is solid blue.

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