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I learnt touch typing about two decades ago when I was still at university. Although I took some typewriter lessons as a child, those lessons did not stick with me. It was at university, when I found a Java applet-based touch typing...
Image: Art Bicnick, Reykjavík Grapevine Discovering and being part of the pool culture in Iceland has been one of the great joys of my life. Here are some impressions from various times I’ve enjoyed it over the last twenty-one years: &
Today’s selection shows the NCI modular layout. This was a German-Italian cooperation, with our friends from Stuttgart providing the German section. Some of the modules look familiar from Stuttgart! The fiddle yard for the system. The...
I built an AI app that scans your chats to find all the restaurants, trips, and activities you talked about. It works with chat exports from WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and LINE.You can try it out at:...
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PMF gets sold as a milestone. It's actually a gauntlet that bends founders, breaks teams, and quietly poisons technical decisions. Most of the damage isn't from missing PMF — it's from how you behave while looking for it.
“First of May” being of course Jonathan Coulton’s immortal celebration of spring, love, and outdoor recreation, possibly the most gentle song ever to drop multiple f-bombs. I thought, what if “First of May,” but with lots of drums and...
I mentioned last week that I was asked whether I could identify the author behind a certain byline as one of their books is about to be reprinted. The byline was the house name Jeff Bogar, known to have been used by more than one author,...
Three months ago, I launched the Visible Zorker Patreon with a promise: fund me and I will create a new Visible Infocom game every month. You did! And now the tree bears fruit. I decided to put the games on a two-month delay, so that...