Writing with constraints
This might be an extreme example of a maxim. I was dimly aware of a novel written without the letter “E”. Recently saw a mention of it and looked it up. "Gadsby" is a novel written by Erne…
Tools
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Copilots on the cheap
Didn’t realize just what it takes to start out with a programming assistant — expect prices to go up a lot later! Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this yea…
Roam and Raycast
“Quick capture” is important, especially if you have too much of a “monkey mind”. I use Roam as a combination of bullet-journal, and thinking playground, but there can be friction in using it when no…
A tale of three agents
I had an experience that I feel encapsulates the tradeoff between a few different products that each claim to replace part of the “general search experience”. I asked the following question: How can…
Link curation re-evaluation
Some random thoughts here, on the topic of “sharing bits of what I come across”. I’ve had this Wordpress blog for over 12 years (including items that started here, and other sources ingested here ove…
De-Googl-ifying
It has been 10 days now since I last used Google Search. It feels crazy to say that, but it’s true. I don’t make these changes lightly. A quarter ago , I was musing on whether I should pay for one…
Pen & Paper
Getting back to more use of pen and paper this year — or rather, continuing my use in a different way, learning from my own use over the last few years. This is one of them, a place for “daily dumps…
Funnel
I’m writing this within the text capture portion of an app called Funnel. I’ve always valued a sort of “universal entry point” for things. It’s what I used Drafts for, initially. This is simpler, of…
Thoughts on Micro.blog
I annually review the places I write at -- whether long pieces, or short pieces, or a few words, or just images. One of these was a foray with Micro.blog, and I was wondering whether it might replace…
iOS progress
I don’t normally get pleasantly surprised by improvements to the mobile computing experience, but this is good stuff:…
The time of VS Code
After a decade of Vim, Emacs and SublimeText, I think it's time to switch to a text editing environment that is both powerful, customizable, and shared with the vast majority of everyone I'm g…
Choosing an e-reader
I shared this recently, so more on this below I had the “keyboard kindle” 12 years ago, and used it a lot At that time, all that existed was the Kindle (and a Sony model, which is a separate note…