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Life I spent most of this week watching the original Avatar: The Last Airbender show, after watching Drew Gooden’s very eloquent and passionate rant about how the live action remake gets literally everything wrong. I had forgotten a lot...
I’ve seen a number of people creating curated lists of Substack photography newsletters lately. Some are just blunt lists that are hard to use, others have categories, but all are missing some of the newsletters I subscribe to. Also a...
TL;DR: AutoShelf ($19.99 one-time) ships an embedded MCP server that works, but do you actually need that? An AI model can write a launchd LaunchAgent and a shell script once and it runs forever, no app, no daemon, no purchase. The MCP's...
TL;DR: AutoShelf ($19.99 one-time) ships an embedded MCP server that works, but do you actually need that? An AI model can write a launchd LaunchAgent and a shell script once and it runs forever, no app, no daemon, no purchase. The MCP's...
214/365 Heron flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
After a lovely June, July felt like pissing into the wind and I’m glad it’s done. The wheels fell off at the start of the month from a combination of stress, bad food and sickness – and never really got running again. Work commitments...
The internet didn’t just accidentally become shit. Yes, the #dotcons are responsible for plenty of it: surveillance, advertising, addictive algorithms, platform lock-in, spam, fake reviews and the endless extraction of human attention....
This 2-hour interview made me reconsider what a good story is. I don’t know how, but I ended up watching an interview with Matthew Dicks on storytelling. Here’s what I learned: #1. A story is about change over time. It’s about a...
Two days without showing up was very unlike her. In fact, just the sound of the door to the garden sliding open every morning would be enough for her to come running. Suspicious, I decided to go look for her up and down the street, but I...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
We have spent most of the week electrifying our boundaries against unwanted intruders in varying colours and coats. It's hard...
The new CSS scroll-axis-lock property allows you to disable the browser’s default scroll axis-locking behavior (aka “railing”), allowing users to immediately perform a diagonal scroll. ~ Scroll Axis Locking? By default, a browser often...
For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved word and character counting. (Note that this ends today.)
“Emily Cherkin, M.Ed., is a nationally recognized consultant who takes a tech-intentional approach to addressing screentime challenges. A former middle school teacher, she has been featured for her work in the New York Times, the...