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22:34 - Cleaned out one of my desk drawers: threw stuff away, rearranged, put some items in the donate pile. Office still looks as messy as ever.
ENDORSED: Daring Fireball: John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope: In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim...
Kakimori Frost and TRAVELER’S Brass Rollerball pens are fully stocked. Boxes of new notebooks showed up this week from Kakimori, as well as a fresh batch of our leather OnionBrand covers in the coveted Green Dragon and Tanner’s Claret...
Last month I had learned that the starting issues on Yagi, my TW200, boiled down to a bad battery not providing enough power to start the motorcycle. I had wasted too much time thinking it was a starter relay, or starter switch issue...
Best quote I’ve read in a long while about our current global economy:
In the west today, we are very interested in what consciousness (our field of awareness) can reveal when focused on the external world. For instance, if we focus our awareness on plants we can build a system of botany, and if we focus it...
I have a bit less than a week to go until my summer holiday starts, and I already feel very much in holiday mode. In sync with soon turning off the alarm for a couple of weeks, trying to not feel like I need to do too much during the...
NanoClip is a menu-bar app combining clipboard history, text-expansion snippets, and clipboard automation "flows." Free/demo tier; Pro is $9.99 one-time ($5 with code EARLYBIRD through Jul 31). macOS 14+, local-first, optional iCloud...
NanoClip is a menu-bar app combining clipboard history, text-expansion snippets, and clipboard automation "flows." Free/demo tier; Pro is $9.99 one-time ($5 with code EARLYBIRD through Jul 31). macOS 14+, local-first, optional iCloud...
A few years ago I've released Birdfeeder, my (back then) Twitter bookmark manager. The problem it solved was that I constantly bookmarked interesting places or ideas on Twitter and then never looked at them again. It was initially not...
Having seen discourse on bubbles.town about bloggers using week notes and it being seen as positive and negative (can we have better titles) so thought I would document the origins of the week notes term and my WeakNotes alternative....
My friend Megan Frampton has a new book coming out in August, and author Felicia Davin and I will be in Cambridge to help celebrate. This is a rather early invitation because space is limited, and these events tend to sell out...
I saw these stories going viral, all within the span of a few weeks: I’m a professor at Berkeley. Bring back this requirement for entry. and Students are doing worse than you think College Students Are Losing the Ability to Read There...
In the good old days before GenAI, anxieties about student plagiarism sometimes focused on essay mills, where one could buy bespoke essays on whatever topic was needed, complete with references and bibliography, TOTALLY UNDETECTABLE by...