Why u no have footnotes, Medium?
Yuck, footnotes simply don’t render in Medium the way they do in Wordpress. I have no clue why this is so — it seems a terrible limitation in my opinion. There are notes, which are a poor substitute…
My history with computers, Part 1: “Early 90s”
Context As hinted at in a previous post, I thought I’d go over a history of my interaction with computers. This was … harder than I thought, mostly because I barely remember anything. If only I had p…
Thoughts on Wordpress and Medium
I had tried out Medium earlier, perhaps three years ago. At the time, I found it redundant for what I had started doing, which is sharing the curated monthly links. Wordpress was a better fit for that…
Some thoughts on notes, with DevonThink
I should write about my opinions on “artisanal software” separately, but I have mentioned some of the tools I use, and DevonThink is pretty central to a lot of ways I “augment myself”. So, here’s a s…
History with Computers, redux
I stumbled across an old post of mine1 where I talked about my initial experiences with a computer. Continuing this2, adding more detail, and bringing it up to the present day, should be both fun and…
Monthly Recap (Jul 2020)
Major updates * Tara “graduated” from pre-school * Bunch of day trips (Rockaway beach, Sanborn county park, Waddell beach, Seascape beach) * I became a year older :-| Minor updates * Assembled…
So much beauty in the world
https://youtu.be/Qssvnjj5Moo Realized it’s been two decades since I first saw this scene.…
MLP: Collecting the anomalies
I realized, after writing my earlier post, that merely talking about this doesn't quite convey my point, so (as I read through these with my daughter) I'll take a few pics when I remember, of…
Generally Interesting Links - July 2020
* Folks have been living in the American continents about a … couple dozen millennia … longer than you thought. * This was just so … dunno, poetic? romantic? … on “birds who never come down” * The…
On the appealing strangeness of My Little Pony
I’ll confess I had no impression about “My little pony” (I’ll abbreviate as “MLP” to save keystrokes) until about a year ago, when I first sat down with my daughter and watched the first episode1 of “…
Cave generation
I came across this brief overview1 of generating ASCII representations of dungeons, and decided to take a stab at a Scala version of the same. The basic idea is (1) generate some random walls, and th…
Notebook rollover time
My Cafe Note B6 Slim from Nanami Paper filled up (second in a row!), and I recently switched to a different, larger notebook — the Seven Seas “MicroDot” A5 — from the same company (and so, the same p…