Amazon is bad for Canada Post
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Lots of good stuff in this article about how Amazon contracts with companies like Intelcom in Canada to deliver packages then enforces massive delivery quotas on non-union workers. It seems that many think that Canada Post needs to be more competitive by doing similar things like paying workers less for more work. I like the…
The Ultimate ThinkPad?
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Great video on upgrading an older ThinkPad to something highly usable today. Also props to this guy for keeping that older MacBook Pro running for so long. Goes to show you that with a bit of effort you can take “old” tech and make it very useful today. We don’t need to chase the newest…
Revisiting my task management workflow and all about blogging – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members, become one to get access to my courses and book notes. Revisiting Task Management This week a post I wrote on task management from 4 years ago came back across my radar and I’m in a position to comment on it. Do I still use TickTick? No I…
WordPress does feel bloated for blogging
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I know I do a bit more than blogging here now, but WordPress does feel bloated so this post about moving to Pika does sound nice. In fact I did move to Statamic once and then came back to WordPress though I’m not sure why now with the drama going on and the ad crap…
Koillection – self hosted collection tracking
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Maybe it’s books, DVDs, or dolls, we all often have something we collect. If you’re looking for a way to track those things without giving your information to some corporation check out koillection.
AI and Python are winning
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So AI has lead Python to be the top programming language but I wonder how long this will continue? It’s easy to spin up some Python AI thing from a blog post and put it on GitHub, only to never look at it again. My GitHub repositories are full of projects like that, they seemed…
Matt on Professional Tools
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Matt contends that professional tools need 3 things: This is why I stick with Neovim. It just works the way it’s supposed to work all the time and doesn’t update with new tools (like some AI shit) because the company thinks it needs to get AI into its tools. Finally, I can create any workflow…
Tool Discography
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I listened through the Tool discography this week and my favourite album is Ænima. Next week I’ll do Guns N’ Roses.
Omnivore alternatives, actionable notes and friction – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members. To get access to my book notes and courses you should become one. Omnivore Alternatives Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs which the blog post plays as a positive thing, but you have till November 15th to export your information before they delete everything. This has left people upset and…
Blogging challenges for November
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Lou shared some blogging challenges for November. Could I write 9,000,000 or more words this month?
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