Category: Links of Interest
iPad for 2024
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Currently I use two iPads. I have a M1 12.9” iPad Pro 1TB and an iPad Mini 6 256GB. These iPads hold two different spaces in my computing life. My iPad Pro is where I do much of my writing and note-taking. It’s attached to an external monitor and a keyboard much of the time.…
Matt’s iPad Report Card
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The iPad Mini hasn’t been touched since 2021, and this is the one iPad I’m not super worried about camera placement. I would like to see it get a processor bump to the A16 or M1, as well as some reduced bezels if they can. I disagree with reduced bezels for the iPad Mini. I use my…
Would You Watch Your Own Videos?
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From Matt: Would you read the blog posts you write? Would you watch your own videos? Remember that making good shit is about making things people enjoy, so think about what you like and try to make things that you would be excited to see when you’re browsing the web. We’re all unique in our…
Slow your writing to match the speed of thinking
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Before I started using Day One in January last year, I watched every review and setup video available. Many emphasised the speed of typing over handwriting, and I agreed. My hand couldn’t match the pace of my thoughts, which I saw as a drawback. So, I decided to subscribe and type instead of writing by hand.…
Academic Publishing Oligopoly
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The academic publishing platform only mediates between the same group of people separated by time – squeezing them at both ends. This process can only be described as a highly lucrative scam. – Koen Hufkens – Burn the candle at both ends It’s insane that research is so locked up. The Ivy League Cartel has…
Ebooks aren’t killing print
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This article on CBC talks about the thriving independent bookstore industry in Canada where readers of printed material are younger. Ebooks had a surge, then have dropped back and print remains strong. This was also detailed at length in Book Wars. You can read my summary of Book Wars here.
Enshitification in Polish Trains?
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Yes the manufacturer of a train in Poland remotely bricked the train because they didn’t like who worked on it. Now that “hackers” who were hired by the train company to get the train rolling again have fixed it the train company is now threatening to sue the hackers that got a crucial piece of…
Louis Rossman – the Enshittification of Amazon
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Like Louis, I’ve had a harder and harder time finding anything of quality on Amazon. Worse, like many of the people commenting on the video, I’ve had my negative reviews of bad products taken down because they “weren’t relevant” to the product. I have no idea how saying “this product doesn’t work for its intended…
Crypto is a Scam – Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
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Years ago I remember being interested in Bitcoin, simply because it was new interesting tech. I even mined a few dozen of them back when it was possible to do that with an underpowered second hand computer you were willing to leave on for a few days. For the last 5+ years though crypto has…
