Do By Friday
A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.
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This week's challenge: manipulate your data.
- How They Made Hagrid Big - YouTube
- AutoSleep - Overview
- 🎙️ MacWhisper
- Be Right Back - Wikipedia
- Watch Be Right Back on Netflix
- Cursor - The AI Code Editor
- Windsurf Editor
- Prompt 3
- Tailscale - Add-on Packages | Synology Inc.
- Access Synology NAS from anywhere · Tailscale Docs
(Recorded Wednesday, April 30, 2025)
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Next week's challenge: manipulate some data.
(Recorded Wednesday, Apr 23, 2025)
- Flightless Bird Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail - YouTube
- Rabies | Flightless Bird - YouTube
- American Girl Doll | Flightless Bird - YouTube
- TICKLED - Official Trailer - A Documentary About Competitive Endurance Tickling - YouTube
- Amazon.com : White Board Wallpaper
- Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon (Official Video) - YouTube
- Jeff Rosenstock - Not Too Soon (Throwing Muses Cover) - YouTube
- YOU LET MY TYRES DOWN by TR...
- Rangefinders – Optics4Birding
- Dalton Trumbo - Wikipedia
- The Best Actress Oscar Race of 1950 - YouTube
- Judy Holliday - Wikipedia
- All About Eve - Wikipedia
- Born Yesterday (1950 film) - Wikipedia
- Emma Corrin - Wikipedia
- Princess Diana’s Sweetest Moments in The Crown | Netflix - YouTube
- The Waste Land - Wikipedia
- Hope is The Thing With Feathers - Emily Dickinson (Powerful Life Poetry) - YouTube
- Hillel the Elder - Wikipedia
- Peep Show (British ...
This week's challenge: Try Obsidian Again.
(Recorded Wednesday, April 2, 2025)
This week's challenge: Watch Mickey 17.
(Recorded Wednesday, March 26, 2025)
Episode Links
- Mickey 17 - Wikipedia
- When The Long Take Feels Like You're Inside the Movie | Vanity Fair - YouTube
- Weekend Update: Stefon on Holiday Travel - Saturday Night Live - YouTube
- Robert Pattinson & Director Bong Joon Ho Break Down a Scene From 'Mickey 17' | Vanity Fair - YouTube
- Steven Yeun & Conan Visit A Korean Spa | CONAN on TBS - YouTube
- 'The Pitt'...
This week's challenge: Watch Companion (2025).
(Recorded Wednesday, March 12, 2025)
Episode Links
This week's challenge: try vibecoding.
(Recorded Wednesday, March 5, 2025)
Episode Links
This week's challenge: notice some good things.
(Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025)
Episode Links
- Merlin Mann - "That was good."
- Ruth Gordon's Unique and Defiant Journey to Oscar - YouTube
- Comedian Jerry Lewis made a landmark Holocaust movie called “The Day the Clown Cried.” Why can’t anyone see it?
- movies with really good dog actors
- Demi Lovato - "I Love Me" (Emo Version)
- Tampopo (1985) | The Criterion Collection
- Best Doula Training ...
This week's challenge: find more unconventional fancy.
Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025.
This week's challenge: move your pencil until a secret falls out.
Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025.
- Blackwing Pencils - John Dickerson Official Website
- About Us – Blackwing
- Every Successful Entrepreneur Knows These 3 Tips
- Goon on you crazy diamond | Western Kabuki
- The Beginnings of American Railroads and Mapping | History of Railroads and Maps | Articles and Essays | Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 | Digital Collections | Library of Cong...
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Thanks for being here.
Aftershow Links
This week's challenge: get some new challenges
Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025.
This week's challenge: watch Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix, 2024)
Recorded Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025.
Links
- Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial | Netflix Official Site
- Hitler's Circle of Evil | Netflix
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Wikipedia
- Conspiracy (2001 film) - Wikipedia
- "Conspiracy" (2001) streaming: where to watch movie online?
- Hitler a book by Professor of Modern History Ian Kershaw - Bookshop.org...
This week's challenge: Watch Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009).
- Trailer for Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
- Opinion | Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me - The New York Times
- Thomas Flight - "Why Were David Lynch's Movies So Strange?"
- "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it."
- The Joan Rivers anecdote
- Some Good Movies About Making Art, a list of films by Merlin Mann • Letterboxd
Recorded on Wednesday, J...
This week's challenge: make a no-coding app.
Recorded on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025.
This week's challenge: play Balatro.
(Recorded Wednesday January 1, 2025.)
This week's challenge: something involving Valley of the Dolls (1967).
(Recorded Wednesday December 18, 2024.)
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