Thinking of starting a routine of "Unsocial Sundays" during which I avoid all social media. Today is Sunday, it's 05:52 AM, and I'm already twitchy about it. Worth a try, though.
Notes
Quick notes, links, photos, quotes, etc.
Ascetic Computing - ratfactor by Dave Gauer resonated with me. I have been unable to "Reduce & Simplify" or "Use What I Have", even after years of trying. My definition of what "simple" means changes daily. Still working on it.
FAQ: How do you use your typewriters? | Chris Aldrich
Below are some various recent uses I’ve made of my typewriter collection
I have a handful of nice typewriters that sit unused. I would really like to change that. Chris' list gives me a few ideas.
taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV
You opened this page. It already knows the following.
I already knew most of this, but it's still alarming to see it all at once.
Grove.el is "An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs". I'm already overloaded with note-taking tools, but Grove is an interesting take on the idea.
It's from Jonathan Chu. Here's the introductory post.
There's currently another internet pile-on happening. "Everyone" is leaving Github because someone else said, "Everyone's leaving Github". I'm no fan of Github, but a handful of people will actually leave, and we'll forget about it in a week, because it's the internet.
"I refuse to use anything that has touched A.I. in any way!"
...later...
::rubs sticks together to make fire::
"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* - YouTube
Paul Ford is always so impressive and smart and sensible. I love reading and listening to him.
my hunch is that we should prepare ourselves for way, way too many apps.
It's already happening, and that's just the ones I make for myself.
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)
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.
Uh oh:
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.