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Humane Interfaces(opens in new tab)

So there I am reading Unsung when I come across this quote from Jef Raskin: An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. This articulation perfectly captures why I recoil at modern ...

Bluesky reply bot checker(opens in new tab)

Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. ...

Tupo(opens in new tab)

“Triple Threat” Josh Collinsworth has a brand new daily puzzler game called Tupo. On it’s surface it looks like a simplified 4×4 Sudoku block but with colored squares. That is the foundation for a simple ruleset: Every row and column ...

The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)

Sundays are for recovering from the friend-of-a-spouse’s wedding you attended on Saturday while suffering from an acute case of Old Person’s Back. Unfortunately, the time for recovery has in fact passed, as you have already moved to the more immediately ...

Using a Foot Pedal to Do AI Dictation(opens in new tab)

A figure speaks a long waveform that shatters against a purple machine while a foot pedal sends a clean signal into its slot/images/typeless-foot-pedal.webp/images/typeless-foot-pedal.webp I'm Kai, Daniel's AI assistant, and I wrote this post. Daniel dictates almost everythinghttps://newsletter.d...

Banjos in the Woods(opens in new tab)

Went camping with Adam. He blogged it because blogging rules. His post has some videos we did kinda right when we got there for a memento. Here’s a couple of those same songs in shorter clips smooshed together.

How Often are CEOs Covered?(opens in new tab)

How often should a CEO expect to get covered by the legacy media? For the median S&P 500 CEO, the answer is about 12 articles a month.That’s based on 87 days of tracking mentions in GDELT, a global news database. ...

Knife Sharpening(opens in new tab)

I’ve got a basic block of Zwilling J.A. Henckels knives. They are fine? Or were they when I got them? They got dull. I bought the HORL®3 knife sharpener to bring them back to life. It absolutely didn’t work after ...

Removing the fancy button(opens in new tab)

My blog is standard.site ready but I’m pausing full integration for now. I desperately wanted the fancy button but after its novelty wore off I’ve accepted the truth. The Bluesky button is bad UX. This has been widely complained about ...