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As I have been saying for quite some time, even before Apple announced its recent price increases, Apple is, according to Bloomberg, getting ready to announce what amounts to a subscripton service for some Apple devices. There have been...
From The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2026), Kindle pp. 93-96: George was a gifted linguist, quick to learn Māori names and words as he pointed at plants,...
Here's an entry from The Biographical Dictionary of Film in which David Thomson rehearses some of the concerns about "movie" addressed in the new book:Fortuitously - but purely accidentally - timed for the tenacious Madonna's return to...
DIY Festivals, Coast to Coast :: Ghost Canyon, Fly Around Fest & Open MelodyWhen we think of music festivals these days, it’s often the big ones that come to mind — your Coachellas, Lollapaloozas or Bonnaroos. Sweltering heat, fields...
I saw another inexpensive ESP32 device on Aliexpress and decided to see if it would work well as a smart home controller like Tessera. The ESP32 display has wifi and Bluetooth, is about 1 3/4 inches in diameter, and has a roughly 240×240...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Image by Tumisufrom PixabayA famous advertising campaign once claimed that it's good to talk.And that may be true.But what's...
Garmin has joined the likes of Fitbit and Whoop, and is now offering a screen-free fitness tracker, named the Cirqa. Andrew Liszewski at The Verge: The smart band can track more than 80 different activities such as running or yoga that...
Implementing ephemeral per-PR preview urls on Google Cloud Run with GitHub Actions.
This is a loosely-based sequel to my May 16 blog post Mac App Store: What’s in a name? inspired by an app named App for YouTube ℠ with a symbol at the end. This blog post is inspired by an app named Chrome Browser Default. Released less...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
As the clock approached half past one on July 20th, an excavator did what it never expected to do: hit an electricity cable. On that instant, hundreds of houses were haunted with the lack of electricity. Minutes passed, still nothing....
Is it possible to tame the A.I. beast in higher ed? I am a college professor who sees the handwriting on the wall: it’s only a matter of time before university administrators begin using “A.I. tools” to replace costly faculty. Although...
Hello, loves! If there was a feature I wanted, I’d do that. There isn’t, so we’ll look for some more small but significant improvements. Fiddling while Rome burns? Why not? In a Mastodon exchange involving flying monkeys ( my pretties!)...
When I started an independent editorial studio, most of my business came from referrals. I continued this as I rebooted my business writing practice several months ago. I also wrote thoughtful cold emails to companies I very...