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…
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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…
Random Note #987346
(reviving an old draft) A blog shouldn't be a series of posts. What if I want to change an older post? A blog should be a graph of posts, and the "chronology" should be a series of dif…
Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
Nix is (still) unusable
I first tried out Nix in 2018. The second round -- I went through "Nix Pills", which helped get a better idea of what was going on -- was in 2020. I heard NixOS getting some popularity (yo…
Keyboard Maestro FTW
I have recently -- belatedly! -- been adding more "focus time" slots in my calendar. This is also part of an experiment to use the calendar more ... but that's a whole separate topic.…
Chat-enabled Wolfram Notebooks
If you have a slight hobbyist interest in Math or "computational thinking", Wolfram Mathematica is an excellent investment. They recently added an LLM input layer to their already-very-prof…