Cory Doctorow
The availability of a deep, digital, searchable, published and public archive of my thoughts turns habits that would otherwise be time-wasters — or even harmful — into something valuable.
What a great piece
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Things have been stagnating around here. I haven’t felt like doing any capital-B Blogging. Rather, I’ve been pouring stuff into
rudimentarylathe.wiki. It’s just easier to have the daily notes
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But just because we always come back to the barn with “results” doesn’t mean we got anything. When we get nothing, we have to have the discipline to know we got nothing,
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I take all my notes in
TiddlyWiki now, and publish most of them to rudimentarylathe.wiki.
For the past few years, I’ve published my wiki using TiddlyWiki. I write daily, publicly sharable
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Software-wise, this incredibly powerful iPad is as capable as a 2014 iPad Air 2 (the oldest iPad model that can run iPadOS 14). There is still, in my opinion, a substantial software design
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It’s 2021; structured data and ~transclusion~ are still the sidewalk around the quad, while screenshots are the diagonal desire path, worn to bare dirt
https://twitter.com/robinsloan/status/1388325221514432514
It’s
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I’m exhausted. I think it’s because I haven’t been working in more than a month and my brain has had too much free time to “figure stuff out.” (Yes, I
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I’ve been using the
reMarkable 2 tablet for almost three months now. I’m often asked what I think of it. The short answer is this:
I use the reMarkable tablet every
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Here’s my star rating system for everything:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was good
⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was OK
⭐️⭐️ I didn’t like it
⭐️ Hated it
With me, everything gets 3 stars by default. Books, movies,
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…skip any definitive conclusions, as we know you might change those at any time. ????
@ron on micro.blog
Ron was referring to my still-forming opinions about the reMarkable tablet, but he could be
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TL;DR: I’m sticking with
HEY for my email, but there’s a surprise twist: I’m also sticking with Fastmail. Hear me out.
I was initially disappointed with the implementation of
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(Updated with notes about the custom domain discount)
Other than having a couple of nits to pick, I really like using HEY! for my email.
After considering the pros and cons and waffling
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A New Guild System | THR Blog | Blogs | The Hedgehog Review:
At a time when, as Levin points out, people tend to see participation even in such august institutions as the United States Congress
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Dante Stella, The Machine Planet:
Spot meters help you sort out the various tones in a scene so that you can spend 1000x the effort to get a picture that is 10% better
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I
got my first Kindle in 2007. I had given up on Amazon letting me do the Most Obvious Thing, which is to use the current book’s cover on the lock screen.
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Writers spend way too much time and money seeking out their “grail” pen and paper combo — the tools that will make their work so much “smoother.” It’s a pattern we’ve seen
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