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📞 Secret World №. 10: Neighbourhood deepfake
Around this time last year, when the weather started to warm and working from home still felt liminal, I became better acquainted with the neighbourhood…
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📞 Secret World №. 9: Ping is in the air
First, a question: If you’re the sort of person who still listens to MP3s, FLACs, AACs — OGGs?
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📞 Secret World No.1: SOS
It was New Years Day when Doug Nidever blacked out.
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📞 Secret World №. 8: The best
Can you feel it? It’s that time of year where everything seems to slow down. It’s like walking in waist-deep water. There’s no use trying to go faster…
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📞 Secret World No.4: Camcorders
I started writing this at my kitchen table, which is as much a makeshift office as it is a place to eat these days.
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📞 Secret World No.6: How to write a newsletter
In HBO's How To With John Wilson, so many of the show's best, funniest, most endearing moments hinge on how they're shot.
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📞 Secret World No.3: Gardens
I’m going to start this issue in the garden.
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📞 Secret World No.7: Lost notes
I haven’t listened a ton of music this year.
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📞 Secret World No.5: Real Time
Growing up, I thought I wanted to be a 3D animator, to make the computer generated characters I saw in films and TV.
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📞 Secret World No.2: Reverse engineer
The temperature is finally dropping, which means it’s time to bake bread.
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📞 Secret World No.0: Hi there
Hello!
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