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Jamberoo Fox Path - second angle

Drew Truslove uses a dip pen and ink to create intricate portraits and landscape drawings. I don't understand how the mind of someone who can do this works. It's amazing.

(via Dense Discovery #385)

Penumbra Print Shop | Shop

Magic Postcard allows you, the sender, to attach a piece of media — photo or video — that your recipient can view immediately upon delivery. It works with any phone that can scan a QR code; it requires no special app or account.

Robin Sloan is kind of my hero.

Matcha:

A beautiful and functional email client for your terminal, built with Go and the charming Bubble Tea TUI library. Never leave your command line to check your inbox or send an email again!

I'm a sucker for anything TUI. Matcha was easy enough to install and configure, but it doesn't feel ready quite yet. Something to keep an eye on if you're looking for a terminal-based email client. I'll stick with Mutt or Aerc for now, though.

Inviting the Aliens, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)

I’ve been vibe-coding proofs of concepts at work to help things along. I’ve never thought harder or more densely and to less effect.

I also have been vibe-coding a bunch of little utilites and whatnot. It can be exhilerating or exhausting, depending on the day. Most days it's both.

mike: "Installing Linux on an old Thi…" - social.lol:

Installing Linux on an old Thinkpad is “middle aged dad decides to get fit by doing toe touches in his boxers” except you don’t get disgusted & give up. Instead you blog about how awesome it is until it’s not and then you stop blogging for six months in hopes everyone forgets.

That's not me. At all. Nope.

SilverBullet+: The Programmable Personal Knowledge Management Platform

SilverBullet+ is a knowledge management platform (fancy term for a “notes app on steroids”) built on markdown files. It combines a live-preview editor with wiki-style linking, a built-in database and query language, and a fully integrated Lua scripting environment — turning your notes into a programmable system that grows with you. It is private by default: your data lives on your machine as plain markdown files, always portable, always yours.

SilverBullet is cool, and turning it into an app makes it more accessible to people who don't want to self-host a web app.

Ewen Bell about Davinci Resolve as a photo editor:

This little bit of news is going to be a huge moment in digital photography, and another blow to Adobe.

Davinci is powerful and complex to learn. I think this will make it unwieldy for MOST photographers.

Pretty cool, but if I wanted to use something complex and unwieldy to edit photos, I already have Darktable. What slice of the market would use this? I can't imagine it being more than a sliver. You know I'll try it anyway.

The thing that scares me about how good LLMs are getting is that before long, everything is going to look good, and sound good. Everything will be well-written. The world is gonna be boring as hell.

synapsmedia/ghost-theme-editor:

Edit theme files directly inside Ghost Admin with a completely client-side editor.

This solves a real problem with running a Ghost blog and just wanting to make a few little tweaks to the theme.

Alan Jacobs on the Iron Laws of the Comment Section:

  1. Those who have read and understood the post, whether they agree with it or not, will email you if they have something to say.

All of the rules sound right, but that last one nails it. It's one reason why I have a "Reply by email" link instead of comments.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White

The Ghost Effect:

That said, for $200 a month (or $20), you have a team of cybercriminals on tap that you can call at any time. You are now an absolute elite hacker, if you take time to learn some basics. Congratulations! Seeing state-level cyberweapons become a commodity is kind of a new thing, and I thought you should know about it.

It's a wild world out there. I'm a little nervous about it.

I think it's time to stop worrying about where I put notes or in what format. I record my weight in daily Denote files. It's a simple line like "Weight: 208.2". I asked claude code to help me generate reports based on it, and in 10 minutes I had a fancy HTML page with dynamic charts and stats as well as the emacs lisp function to update it on demand. Kind of wild. Seems like these days I could parse just about anything and put it just about anywhere.

Leica Camera AG appoints new CEO to succeed Matthias Harsch - Macfilos

He highlights the priorities of his tenure as:

  • Expansion of digital and connected imaging solutions
  • Further development of the premium product portfolio
  • Strengthening global sales and retail structures
  • Intensifying partnerships in the fields of mobile imaging and optics
  • Sustainable corporate governance and responsible manufacturing.

I don't know the guy, so he's probably great, but what do these even mean? Of course you want to sell more stuff, who doesn't? Anyway, I hope he does all of the above, I guess.