Extension Languages
Found this old post by Jon Skinner on why SublimeText went with Python. If you're building an application, then your users will get much more out of it if you given them a plugin API. For Sublime…
Tools
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Use an outliner
* I'd say pick one of Workflowy or Roam * I'm biased towards Roam because * I already use it * It works for me * It has a lot of "power features" that go beyond jotting do…
Wherever I may Roam
Poetic license on the title aside, I'm doubling down on Roam. "Sometimes you have to let things go..." and so on, but that's what I did earlier. I spent a year trying out all kinds…
On to-do apps
History I have been using OmniFocus for over five years now. I started with version 2, moved on to version 3 and have even beta-tested the new version 4 on my phone for a while. A lot of cruft has…
Roam stays
Much as I tried to quit Roam previously, I've been back to using it the last quarter. It's good enough, and "doesn't suck". It is more fluid and immediate than the alternatives…
Posting flow
I made the previous post using my phone. It's annoying that I can't use the Wordpress app with self-hosted sites (which is what this is), but the "mobile web" experience for the sam…
Tiling managers
Switched to Rectangle on my macbook. It's a "tiling window manager", and I hadn't used one for over six years now, ever since I stopped using a Linux laptop for personal/office use…
Notebook requirements
Here's what I want from a paper notebook: * Tomoe River Paper (with an exception for Midori MD) * Grid (i.e. not plain pages, not lined pages) * Page numbers (a new addition) * Size (A5 or A6…
An old television
Saw this "for pickup" on the sidewalk recently. I can't imagine who would use something like this, but it was pretty high-end in its time! This is as old as me! The style then was to &…
Tools for thought
A quote from "Tools for Thought" by Howard Rheingold, from the chapter titled "The loneliness of the long-distance thinker" * Harry Truman was President and Sputnik was a word th…
Tomoe River Paper
A few years ago, when I first came across it, it was hard to find a notebook that I liked that contained Tomoe River paper. It's thinner than any other paper, it's strong, and it doesn't…
On old software
George R. R. Martin, when asked by Conan O' Brien, on why he wrote on on an old PC, running MS-DOS, not connected to the internet, in Wordstar 4.0. I actually like it, it does everything I want a…