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Design, Tech & Arts for Curious Minds

Amble One is a golf cart built like a Rivian.

As I write this to you, my tabby Amelia perches on the corner of my desk. Just to the left of my ASDF hand, patiently (it’s an act) waiting to be fed. Or for me to decide to give back the dog—always difficult to tell with cats. Hope things are going as well as or potentially better than this with you.

This time we’re colliding Rothko, golf carts, Hans Zimmer, playgrounds and building with blocks. More on that last one next.

Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link

—JH

Live Event

PathCamp Session: Building with Blocks

In Session 2 of PathCamp, we turn from the shape of a path to the substance of each step. Blocks are Pathwright’s content designer, the 30+ content types you mix and arrange inside every step, from text and video to flashcards and assessments.

Building on your Session 1 outlines, we’ll work through practical Block combinations for each part of learning: informing, surfacing gaps, explaining, breaking down steps, reflecting, and assessing. We’ll also cover the habits that make Blocks work, like treating each step as a bridge and building patterns learners can rely on.

Christian Shockley
Head of EdLabs

Dead Cat

10 curious links that would have killed the cat

⛅️ Current Rothko shows you your weather in terms of a Rothko painting. We’re having Yellow Cherry Orange at HQ right now. It seems like a little thing, but may I praise that these are actual Rothko paintings—not generated dupes, which seems like the obvious thing to do—limited by images in the public domain / fair use.

Joonas Virtanen ∙ Web App

👾 Run classic HyperCard stacks on modern MacOS. “Browse the Internet Archive's HyperCard collection and run stacks with one-click. No emulator required!” Love this.

morphing.cloud ∙ Mac App

☎️ Coilie downgrades your phone to a landline experience. Looks great to be honest. I’m imagining fiddling with the cord while I talk to a pal right now.

Coilie ∙ Phone Accessory

🤖 A quiz that helps frame your disposition toward AI. 15 questions and genuinely useful to me. You’ll end up with one of 30 archetypes (mine was The Shrug).

The AI Compass ∙ Quiz

💾 Portfolio site but make it Mac OS 5. Really fun to click around on. I’m not proud of how long I played Sky Assault for.

Ryan Duffy ∙ Personal Site

A playground designed by its customers

🛝 Playgrounds designed by kids. Man I would have loved a floor is lava court. Also really love the pollinator garden.

The New York Times ∙ Article

🤔 Comparisons as predictable as the sunrise. The Pudding analyzes 200,000 similes from popular fiction. As a writing enthusiast I really enjoyed this one!

The Pudding ∙ Research Essay

🎙️ Hans Zimmer: Live in Concert. So fun to see and hear live performances of icons like Dune and Pirates of the Caribbean! Venue’s not too tough in the eyes either, whoa. It’s cut together from Hans Zimmer: Diamond in the Desert.

Martin Timko ∙ Concert Video

🚗 Amble One offers a Jeep-like golf cart you can drive anywhere. Looks like if Singer made a golf cart. It’ll run you what a brand new Toyota Corolla or Slate electric truck costs—$25k. But it’s still just a golf cart.

Amble ∙ Fancy Golf Cart

🪐 If Andor premiered in 1975. This would be about right—Star Wars hit theaters in ‘77.

Auralnauts ∙ Video

New at HQ

in Greenville, SC

As you know, the summer schedule plays by its own rules. Here at HQ we let it be loose—allowing for the ins and outs of vacations and daytrips while school’s out and the weather is nice. Our focus is on cleaning up from shipping features during Spring and making the kinds of updates that never seem to fit in project cycles.

Our Building with Blocks session is coming up on July 29th. Sign up, put it on your calendar and look forward to tips and strategies from someone who’s been building paths professionally for years—Hosanna from our LXD team. Looking forward to it! See you there.

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Bye for now. Until next time I’ll be thinking about how scientists are giving robots better summer vacations than they’re giving me. Thanks for nothing, science.

High five,

Justin Hall
Editor, Partner at Pathwright

Pathwright helps you create the simplest, most well-designed paths the world has ever seen.

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