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It’s bananas that I must have a LinkedIn profile to apply for a job.
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This little corner of my website is where I collect things from the everyday goings-on in my life. It’s a chronicle, exhibit, and junk-drawer all at once. I have not had a social media profile in quite a few years now, so this part of my website fills a similiar purpose to what those places did for me in years past.
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Sad that the AI companies landed on an aesthetic so close to my own: earthtones, serif fonts, em-dashes. First they took my job, then they took my sense of self.
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Canon’s pitch for the Cat. Two keys under the space bar instead of a mouse: hold one, type where you want to be, let go. Most of what I want out of owl was worked out in 1987 and then discontinued.
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Hacking at five in the morning.
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When my mind starts bouncing around on syncing issues and distributing data, I probably need to be thinking about a notebook instead of computers.
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I’m doing some writing on an old netbook like it’s 2009.
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Getting old is wanting to redesign your website because the text you yourself wrote a week ago is too small to read in the early hours of the morning.
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I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write
It’s easy to lose sight of why we’re doing something when the thing we’re doing is complex.
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Oskar Wickström applying Bringhurst to the web: rem proportions, justified text with actual hyphenation, one typeface doing all the work. I tried the vertical-rhythm half on my own site and backed it out; the per-element discipline cost more than it returned.
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justif - publication-grade text justification for the web
This is a neat project that brings Knuth-Plass justification to the web.
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Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Alexander Obenauer on rebuilding the Canon Cat’s document interface. The bit I keep coming back to is from the Cat’s own How-To Guide:
When our designers created the Cat they threw out all the junk that makes computers clunky and held onto the personality and immediacy of a typewriter.
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Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won)
I’ve been feeling the time burden lately with all of the services I’ve been hosting. I hate renting everything, but I’m also feeling an intense need to get some of my time back.
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Sometimes trying to run Linux feels like being one of those historical reenactors who pretend to live as life used to be, all while living a life that in no way meshes with the real world.
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I have a stack of floppy disks at home that I’ve always wanted to try and pull data off of.
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It’s interesting to think of computing within limits as having societal benefits.
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Sometimes I do get nostalgic for things, but you know what…? Old software is just as buggy and unusable as all of these here-today-gone-tomorrow web apps.
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An unease about where I fit into things is a thread you can follow throughout my entire time of making a living by doing things with computers. But I’m not sure I’ve ever had more questions about where I fit into all of it than I do now.
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I like to watch this video every once in a while to remind myself that there was once a time when we thought about how humans interact with computers. We used to put a lot of thought into how computers exist to support a human’s interests. Now it often feels like computers exist to make money for everyone other than the human using the computer.