Scope Creep • 6 min read Notes on Silica Gel. Not safe to eat per se, but generally considered non-toxic…
Feature • 8 min read How Silica Gel Took Over the World Silica gel packets seem like the only thing keeping our packaged food crispy and our belongings free of mildew. How on earth did they all get here?…
Interview • 15 min read Alexis, Oakland, and the Port In ways that are almost spooky, Oakland ends up concentrating so many of the problems of the Bay Area…
Project Notes • 9 min read Reliability Compounds The magical fact isn’t that we have jet planes. It’s that modern airliners are reliable to the tune of one accident per 1.13 million flights.…
Project Notes • 7 min read Notes, 2025-03-03 If you want to make a strong slingshot out of wood, you need to find a good forked branch to start with.…