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Writer Clare Sestanovich discusses distrusting triumph, writing during stolen hours, and the wisdom in abandoning a project.

For anyone who follows me on this blog or anywhere else, you are probably familiar with the fact that I enjoy automating things. Having my devices do things for me. This has numerous benefits including saving me time and effort in the future, reducing the opportunity for human error, teaching me new skills, etc. But the fact is, when you start building up a large toolbox of automations it can be hard to keep track of the details. Some automations lend themselves to inline documentation, but what if you want to do something more? In this post I am going to describe some of my set up around documenting automations using two tools on the Mac - Hook and Obsidian.

What comes next.

What comes next.

The Goggles feature remixes Brave’s search ranking system.

Projects that seek to create new communities of marginalized people to draw them in to risky speculative markets rife with scams and fraud are demonstrating

There are new betas, new chargers and new versions of iWork apps out this week. Beyond covering those items, the guys talk about WeatherKit and calculate updated Hackett Numbers.

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

The memory of learning to type on a keyboard is fuzzy. I don't even recall how it feels not to use a keyboard. It shows my age more than...

Asking for pronouns has become a social standard. Who is it serving?

Despite evidence that says otherwise

One of the cornerstone features coming to macOS Ventura this fall is Stage Manager, which lets you create sets of multiple apps, decluttering your desktop without a lot of fiddling. In my limited use so far, I’m optimistic about Stage Manager’s future as a way to manage apps, but it’s not for everyone, which is

Warning: publishing business book neepery ahead, as I try to figure out a problem. It includes a bunch of tedious ground-laying. I also round many prices to the nearest dollar. I am specifically ta…

My suggestions for a better banner.

The M2 is as good as everyone expected it to be.

The flagship podcast of twice-a-week podcasts.

Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.

In what could be one of Twitter’s more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the direct publishing of long-form content on its platform. With Twitter Notes, as the upcoming feature…

Is this the end of short-form Twitter?

Privacy rights protect personal autonomy and shield survivors of abuse. They also conceal abuse and safeguard the powerful. Is the concept coherent?

Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

I am excited to introduce RoutineHub's new owner, Chris Mendez.

What to expect based on your sign.