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Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very...
Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very...
In late 2021, my partner and I moved to Hong Kong. Several months in, I chatted with a friend I went to high school with in Canada. He couldn’t believe I had moved there. The music I listened to in high school, the language I spoke, my...
Part of the TheranasAI arc within Big Tech's War on Users Thought I was done talking about OpenAI and Sam Altman for a while, right? They didn't get the memo. The trial ended Monday. The jury took less than two hours. While everyone was...
Plex sends a message to the self-hosting community with a massive upcharge targeted at the very people who hate monthly fees.
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum...
In 2024, I announced that I was quitting my high paying tech job to become a high school computer science teacher. This Big Scary Thing™, as I called it, was a huge leap of faith; I had no formal experience in education, but I had spent...
Steve Roud’s Folk Song in England is monumental, in that if I hit someone with it they’d definitely be knocked out. Joking aside, though, it’s quite the survey of the history of […]
Out this week from Belt Publishing: Boston in 50 Maps by Andy Woodruff. From the publisher: Covering four distinct categories (“The Making of Boston,” “The Lay of the Land,” “Getting Around,” and “People and Culture”… More
A classic investigation board (of conjoined twins) appears in Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021).
In today's rant I complain that I now sound like every other YouTuber.
JR, Jene-René, photographer and street artist, has created a cavern on the Pont-Neuf Bridge in Paris, and is, yes, a homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Pont Neuf Wrapped of 40 years ago. JR’s ‘Caverne’ is a temporary...