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Title: Harper's Blog Website: harper.blog RSS Feed: harper.blog/index.xml The blog of entrepreneur and hacker Harper Reed. Talking about technology, politics, and life in the city. Posting posts, books read, shared links, and photos. RSS...
The Interface Segregation Principle is about designing thin, cruft-free interfaces which results in reduced coupling.
Two months ago, I deleted my YouTube subscriptions. I now follow YouTube channels in my feed reader instead (I use the NetNewsWire app). How does that work? Is it better? How to follow a channel On desktop, or on the mobile site, copy...
You should be familiar enough with your tools to be able list critical things about them, even though they’re what you still choose to use every day. The title Hate What You Know is admittedly vague, I know! There are a handful of...
I was really fucking good at my job this week, in ways specifically related to my talents and the ways in which I do my work, and it feels incredible. I realize...
Good morning and welcome to the eight-year anniversary of the Weekly Thing — Wow! 😲 Thank you for inviting me to your inbox! In the last couple of weeks I've been able to attend some technology events in town and I was struck by how many...
A reminder that digital independence is an illusion if we can’t even get online.
I visited Kummacon today and it was fun! Saw a lot of cool art and trinkets on display, bought myself a tiny skeleton dinosaur necklace. I spent the whole time there in my cosplay, it wasn't luckily too hot but inside the con area I was...
Reply to: https://journal.robbi.my/notes/250518114259/ Yes, that's what I did! Fun fact: since that Pi also runs my TV with Kodi, it turned out port 8080 was being taken up by Kodi's web interface so I had to fix that, but after that, it...
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers
May 17, 2025 I've always done Time Machine backups every Friday, which is fine for most things. But when it comes to the 11ty project for this blog, I wanted something more frequent. I make changes throughout the week, and if I break...
I just finished my first fully custom sewing project: a porteur bag for bike trips. This is a bag designed to fit on a front rack, in my case a rack called Jack The Bike Rack. On multi-day trips, I want to bring a change of clothes, and...
Surprisingly, Ghost has started working better in the last few weeks. I had talked about how it was freezing, and I was thinking about finding a different platform, but now that it’s working, I think I’ll stick around for a bit. With...