Of tools and apps
There’s a bit of snow…
My mom has started to watch Doctor Who regularly. She hasn’t been a regular viewer since the 80s (Baker/Davidson).
I still do a lot of the same sort of writing as the kind that I used to post on my blog. Now they usually end up as verbose analytical notes in the office’s Google Drive, much to the consternation of my coworkers.
“Daring Fireball: Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack”
As I’ve said in the past, whenever a company wants to update its brand identity to be more flexible they will inevitably become more generic because that’s what flexible means for a brand identity
“Turning Type Sideways - News, Notes & Observations - Hoefler & Co.”
“Not Everyone Can Skip That Missing Stair - K. Tempest Bradford”
For work web dev I’ve switched from the Pixelbook back to the four(ish) year old, slightly water-damaged, MacBook Pro. The 2015 MacBook Pro really is a great machine.
Spending a few weeks primarily with ChromeOS has given me a newfound appreciation for MacOS, Gnome and Windows.
“Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era”
Lots of good advice.
“The Online Photographer: The Biggest Flaw I See in Pictures*”
My entire history as an amateur photographer has centred on this struggle to find a photo’s “punctum”
“HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? — Smashing Magazine”
‘Asking the Wrong Questions: The Illusion of Free Will: On “Bandersnatch” and Interactive Fiction’
“Not only does it revel in some of Black Mirror’s worst excesses, it’s also an extremely bad example of interactive fiction”
“Creating distraction-free reading experiences — Adrian Zumbrunnen”
“Use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector for language-specific styles”
“The kids are alright – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
“Automatic preview image based on screenshot – Terence Eden’s Blog”
I’ve been using a Google Pixelbook (with Linux apps) as my main work device for a few weeks and I have two things to say:
- The hardware is really nice
- The OS is the single most unpleasant to use OS I’ve tried ever, and I used to run Slackware as my primary OS during my PhD