Scribing Along
I've gone through a few phases with my Kindle Scribe I started using it several months ago, but it didn't stick at first, and I even stopped using it for a while, thinking "my paperwhite…
I've gone through a few phases with my Kindle Scribe I started using it several months ago, but it didn't stick at first, and I even stopped using it for a while, thinking "my paperwhite…
Major Update Short but memorable trip to San Diego * Really the best place (city + beach + lots of things nearby) * Torrey Pines beach * La Jolla beach park * Lots of family fun Minor update (…
(clearing out old posts, this one is from three years ago ...) I'm enjoying Wesley Yang's Substack these days -- it's well-written, comprehensive, and inspiring. How did this come about?…
Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly so. Most apps are either harmful, neutral, distracting, or just offer minor conveniences. But there's a special categor…
… is the one showing the extent of US Debt (You should remind yourself that all those numbers are in the unit of millions of millions)…
… are broken. I understand that we’re moving away from Markdown, all good. There’s no good way to quickly add a code block I would have liked to be able to quickly enter backticks and start writing…
A comment in a recent NYT article, that sums up the current moment: When I was a much younger man, the party of "progress" and "the future" and "youth" was the Democrati…
Major update Yosemite trip with parents * Tenaya lodge * Park reservations made a big difference this year Minor update(s) * Jury duty (showed up, postponed to September) * Monter…
An engineering blog-post with a title like “the death of the junior developer”? Written by Steve Yegge? Gotta read it, right? Sourcegraph has their own chat assistant, Cody, but the point is more gen…
One surprising aspect of "political polarization" is the ways it's correlated with men vs women. From this NYT article about a post-debate poll: In the pre-debate poll, Mr. Trump had l…
The only reason I bother trawling through HN is for the occasional gem like this: (Source) Hacker News is just a part of the larger web. It's the same reason you see so many people arguing over…