Paul Bogard examines how cities turned efficient LEDs into another source of excessive night light—arguing programmable, directional fixtures should illuminate only where useful, and that darkness should not be treated as a design failure.

We Made Lighting Cheaper, So We Used More of It

GitHub Actions went down for a significant part of the day and blocked publishes to this site. Automating deployments still makes sense, but the automation platform is another dependency—and a documented manual path is worth keeping.

When the Publishing Pipeline Goes Down

Recurring major outages raise a harder question than home batteries: how a wealthy nation treats public infrastructure failure.

When Infrastructure Failure Becomes Normal

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us.

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We Made Lighting Cheaper, So We Used More of It

When the Publishing Pipeline Goes Down

When Infrastructure Failure Becomes Normal

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