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Newton Protest in “Make Something Wonderful”
Thoughts on the mention of the Newton Protest in Steve Jobs’ “Make Something Wonderful.”
The transformation of the word geek
pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p
Is Twitter finally dying?
Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
Why using a keyboard phone in 2023 kind of rules
The $300 Unihertz Titan Pocket is an imperfect phone that just might be worth it.
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.
Kia EV6 GT review: the attainable, guilt-free supercar
Kia made a fun, attainable supercar but forgot to pump up the battery.
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…
Is Substack Notes a “Twitter clone”? We asked CEO Chris Best
Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?
NPR becomes first major news organization to leave Twitter
The decision comes a week after the social media platform began labeling the network as “US state-affiliated media.”
I don't identify as anxious
Here are some things that have been bothering me
3 interesting ways to use the Linux cowsay command
Most of the time, a terminal is a productivity powerhouse. But there's more to the terminal than commands and configurations.
Winamp is back, but not like you remember
The classic music player Winamp's revamp is part streaming aggregator, part Patreon alternative.
Migrating Mastodon lists
My original Mastodon account was on mastodon.social. I chose it because it’s the largest instance, it’s operated by the developers of the service, and it runs the reference implementati…
Filters, Content Warnings, and Improving Your Mastodon Feed
This article gained traction over the past couple weeks, and it mentioned something that I feel like I keep seeing casual Mastodon users complain about:
People relentlessly calling Twitter the “birdsite”
Do they???? I got heckled once of twice for calling "Twitter" by it's name like once or twice back
Hashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home?
The next best thing to search.
What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies
Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role.
Are there any modern closed-source programming languages? – Terence Eden’s Blog
Regular blogging by Terence Eden.
The Voice of a Generation Was Forged In Houston
Jia Tolentino's first essay collection, Trick Mirror, contains startling insights arrived upon through the New Yorker staff writer's own bizarre life experiences, many of which took place right here in Houston.
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston
Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
What’s next?
The sudden death and rebirth of Tweetbot
When Twitter shut off API access, third-party apps were left high and dry. One app chose to pivot to become a Mastodon app.
[Opinion] The 'Fediverse' — an old key to a new internet?
It's high time we escaped the barbed-wire-fenced private domains of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. You don't need to search long for a key — at least if you know where to look.
Introducing Segment Anything
We're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation — and the SA-1B dataset.
Scrivener for academic writing with Zotero
Scrivener for academic writing with Zotero : A robust setup for academic writing in Scrivener including references and bibliography, output to PDF and docx, and live preview.
Twitter archiver
A simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets
365 RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive
by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an...
Filling the Gaps in Email Automation with Utility Apps
Apple’s New Classical Music App Is a Ton of Fun
It’s an exciting moment for classical music, and Apple’s new dedicated music streaming app is the perfect way to experience it.