Category: Links of Interest
One Reason I Write
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From Ness Labs: Anytime you struggle to write about something you just read, watched, or listen, make sure to take the time to understand properly. The fact that you’re struggling to express it in your own words often means you haven’t completely grasped the new idea. This is one reason I write, because I’m not…
I Predict RSS is Coming Back
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Matt pointed this article out to me, which basically says that RSS is “coming back”. All of these articles strike me the same as “blogging returns” articles. It seems that the author stopped using RSS or stopped blogging. They’ve now got some interest in it for some reason (currently RSS because Twitter is a pile…
My “new” AppleTV Remote is Terrible
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Say what you want about the “old” remote, it worked. My kid dropped it and broke the glass on it…and it work for years. Despite going through the reset and repair instructions from Apple, I still have to stand almost in touching the AppleTV for my remote to work. I love the new AppleTV 4k…
You Should Have Your Own Website
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I entirely agree that you should have your own website. As Treyton says, you should own your content. I started saying back in 2018 that I thought Twitter threads were bad. Then only a few weeks before Elon bought Twitter I said that every thread should be a blog post. Even as I’m now on…
Greg On Why We Keep Watching Twitter
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From Greg: I’ve had enough of reading and listening about Twitter as the next person. So much so I’ve muted the words on Mastodon, and it has removed almost all trace of it. However, I get it. I still can’t help myself reading every new post that crosses my attention, and I know why we…
An Emergency for You Doesn’t Mean a Panic for Me
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I find this good advice for life. When my kid doesn’t get ready fast (she’s 12) and then is in a panic about not getting to school on time, it doesn’t mean I have to panic, or care at all. She made the decision to sleep in and to sit on the couch for 20…
We Need Local News
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Interesting read about how local news is dying. I know the same thing is happening in Canada. The local paper in Prince George stopped printing just before I moved here a year ago. It does have a website though. I’ve read that much of this death is due to the hyper-targeted advertising that Facebook, Google,…
Like Marc Said…Writing is Magical
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I entirely agree with Marc, writing is magical. All of his reasons are excellent, but I use 4 and 5 regularly. At my programming gig if any issue in Github takes more than a quick fix then I document it in our work Obsidian system alongside the issue. Yes sometimes it shows failed paths that…
The School Christmas concert
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Yes my kids were cute but I wonder why we do it. It seems like some vestige of faith and celebrating the birth of a deity. No we didn’t have faith based songs or a faith based play, but I still wonder why we hang on to this traditional performance.