Coyote Tracks
Coyote Tracks
Watts Martin
I’m a science fiction/fantasy author and a technical writer. A few years ago I was known for being a technical blogger on Tumblr; now I blog right here. I left Twitter a while ago, but you can find me posting on Mastodon and Bluesky now. My pronouns are he/they.
Latest Posts
(This will have spoilers for previously-aired episodes. Avert your eyes if you care.) “Everyone hates this final season!” I’ve noticed. Entitled nerd rage has been a thing over the last few years. “Oh, come on. Benioff & Weiss [the...
There’s a lot of reasons people are down on Medium, Ev Williams’ ongoing whatever-the-hell-it-is. It’s a platform! It’s a publication! It’s a platform for publications! It’s a clean, clutter-free reading experience, except for all the...
So, Dan Olson has an interesting thread (note: requires Twitter login, thanks, Twitter!) on Patreon’s realization that they’re going to have to make a lot more money to make back their VC investment. Dan’s reading of Patreon CEO Jack...
Around this time last year, I was contacted by a recruiter from Facebook wanting me to apply for a technical writing position there. We talked for a little bit, I got the job information; it sounded pretty interesting, and the folks I...
Did you hear Tumblr’s getting rid of all the adult sites? Yes, the news is going around. Man, if only Apple wasn’t so prudish! Come again? This is all because Apple pulled the Tumblr app in mid-November after they found child porn on the...
So I bought a new iPad yesterday. After a lot of waffling, I made some seemingly counter-intuitive choices: The 12.9″ model (up from my original 9.7″) Only 64G of storage WiFi only, not cellular The rationale for the first one is simple...
Hey, did you know I used to be a blogger? Okay, it’s not quite fair to say that I’m no longer a blogger; I’ve made about a half-dozen posts this year. But that’s way down from the original Tumblr-hosted Coyote Tracks: in the earlier...
I started thinking about this yesterday, and originally was going to say crazy, as in irrationally expensive. William Schuth expresses this well: My strategy had been to buy the mid-tier spec of the best iPhone offered. My iPhone 6S Plus...
Right now I’m sitting in front of a 27″ iMac. It’s the best computer I’ve ever owned, with a 5K display, high color gamut, 24 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of SSD storage. It’s beautiful and minimalist, just like every iMac they’ve released...
Deep stories and ugly truths in American politics When I went to high school in Florida, I was in one of the last years that had to take a class called “Americanism vs. Communism.” I had the dumb luck to get a teacher named Bob Marsh, an...
“Don’t write a text editor; you’re reinventing fire.” — Ben Straub As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a TextMate user for the last few years, albeit increasingly reluctantly. TM has always been a mix of sheer brilliance and stone...