Blackberry finale
All good things must come to an end, a personal technology lesson that’s hard to learn.…
Tools
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Yes, "stable diffusion" can be addictive
Decided to spend 15 minutes with this, and wow, I see what the big deal is. All of these were made at this web interface.…
Of analog “anti-nets” and slip-boxes
Came across this series of “emails” or “letters” about someone embarking on an analog thinking system. An Antinet is for those who wish to read more effectively, take valuable notes from readings, an…
Obsolescence
My Powerbeats headphones broke apart today. I wanted to get a replacement, but I found it isn't made any more. I looked for the closest equivalent and didn't find one 1. I found this compar…
The making of a friendly robot
Learnt more about the "origin story" of Roomba from an article in the WSJ this weekend. * First sold as a product 20 years ago * Joe Jones joined the AI pan 20 years before that * Variou…
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…
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…