--- title: "colindismuke.com" url: "https://colindismuke.com/" description: "Colin Dismuke — writing, photos, books, projects, and a newsletter called Of Note." --- # Colin Dismuke Engineer and runner. Location leederville · 31.94°s, 115.84°e Local time \--:-- Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the [stream](https://colindismuke.com/stream), longer [essays](https://colindismuke.com/writing), what I’m [reading](https://colindismuke.com/reading), a [training log](https://colindismuke.com/training) kept for the long view, and [projects](https://colindismuke.com/build) at every stage of finished. More [about me](https://colindismuke.com/about). If you want a periodic, slower digest of things worth your attention, [subscribe to Of Note](https://colindismuke.com/newsletter). If you want every update, the RSS firehose is in the footer. ## Photos [all photos](https://colindismuke.com/photos) [ ![Mist on the water](https://pub-37fe35789a7a430fb2283df37f9fbde8.r2.dev/photos/2026/07/20260725-img-1750-3d4a32.avif) 01 Apple iPhone 17 Pro ](https://colindismuke.com/photos/20260725-img-1750-3d4a32)[ ![Still water, sunrise](https://pub-37fe35789a7a430fb2283df37f9fbde8.r2.dev/photos/2026/07/20260725-img-1748-a1a1df.avif) 02 Apple iPhone 17 Pro ](https://colindismuke.com/photos/20260725-img-1748-a1a1df)[ ![City over rooftops](https://pub-37fe35789a7a430fb2283df37f9fbde8.r2.dev/photos/2026/07/20260725-img-1315-82878c.avif) 03 Apple iPhone 17 Pro ](https://colindismuke.com/photos/20260725-img-1315-82878c)[ ![Before the race](https://pub-37fe35789a7a430fb2283df37f9fbde8.r2.dev/photos/2026/07/20260725-img-1310-8f8cd6.avif) 04 Apple iPhone 17 Pro ](https://colindismuke.com/photos/20260725-img-1310-8f8cd6) ## Stream [all stream](https://colindismuke.com/stream) [oct 27](https://colindismuke.com/stream/2026-10-27-room-714112) · 10:55 am [![](https://karrisaarinen.com/static/linear-assets/62043371914cd97c8d9c1b344d1701b4f3de0656074a73c2a14a679f806cb64e.webp)](https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/room-for-ambition/) [Room for ambition](https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/room-for-ambition/)karrisaarinen.com A late-night question at a Finnish startup—how do we become the best people of our generation—reframes ambition as mastery and contribution rather than competition, treating it as an obligation to try honestly rather than a prediction of success. [oct 25](https://colindismuke.com/stream/2026-10-25-ryo-791561) · 1:06 pm ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1915014653295697921/KmMbglaO_bigger.jpg) Ryo Lu @ryolu\_ > struggle together i learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. when i hit a wall, i figured out how to climb it. read something i barely understood. took things apart. asked someone for help. started over. when i began my career, i kept doing things i [ 25 oct 2026 ](https://x.com/ryolu%5F/status/2114187405251219954?s=12&t=1VvMgKp9KkvCReJhIZNjFg) [oct 24](https://colindismuke.com/stream/2026-10-24-cloudflare-238702) · 5:30 pm [ ![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tX3DkdxAe5c/hqdefault.jpg) Play Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Nous CEO Dillon Rollnick on who owns the internet in the age of AI ](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tX3DkdxAe5c&si=qFKyNNWRznjHRK-v) USV [Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Nous CEO Dillon Rollnick on who owns the internet in the age of AI](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tX3DkdxAe5c&si=qFKyNNWRznjHRK-v)youtube.com Cloudflare's Matthew Prince and Nous's Dillon Rollnick discuss who controls internet infrastructure as AI crawlers and agents reshape traffic, arguing content creators and publishers need new mechanisms to get paid when bots scrape their work instead of sending visitors. ## Training [training log](https://colindismuke.com/training) week runs km time [ 26 oct – 01 nov 2026 5 65.6 5h 46m ](https://colindismuke.com/training/2026-11-01)[ 19 oct – 25 oct 2026 3 37.8 3h 32m ](https://colindismuke.com/training/2026-10-25)[ 12 oct – 18 oct 2026 4 61.9 5h 01m ](https://colindismuke.com/training/2026-10-18) ## Writing [all essays](https://colindismuke.com/writing) [ What is Freehold? oct 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/writing/freehold-transcript)[ Kings jun 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/writing/kings)[ Quick Install Tailwind CSS may 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/writing/quick-install-tailwind) ## Research [full log](https://colindismuke.com/research) [ d.001 13 aug 2026 Only a House: A Side Piece Deli dossier A Swanbourne cafe, a Supreme Court writ, twelve jasmine plants, and the zoning question beneath 93 Shenton Road. #swanbourne#planning#law ](https://colindismuke.com/dossier/side-piece-deli) ## Bookshelf [full library](https://colindismuke.com/reading) ◇ Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On & Eyal Naveh ◇ The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander ◇ The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien ## Projects 03 things [ Fact Lab 2026 A native iOS and iPad app for multiplication fluency, with no accounts, ads, or subscriptions. SwiftSwiftUIiOS 17+ live ](https://colindismuke.com/build/fact-lab)[ Sydney Marathon 2026 A native iPhone app for eight days in Sydney, a 2:50:37 marathon, and a public guide to our favourite stops. SwiftSwiftUICloudKitSwiftDataReactCloudflare Pages live ](https://colindismuke.com/build/sydney-marathon)[ Splits 2026 A workout-decoding engine that breaks down how pro runners actually train. Next.jsReactSanityTypeScriptTailwind wip ](https://colindismuke.com/build/splits) ## Of Note [archive](https://colindismuke.com/newsletter) A periodic, slower digest of things worth your attention — no algorithm involved. [ № 18 Week of July 27, 2020 31 jul 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/newsletter/18)[ № 17 Week of July 20, 2020 24 jul 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/newsletter/17)[ № 16 Week of June 1, 2020 05 jun 2020 ](https://colindismuke.com/newsletter/16)