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Oh look. It’s me, an idiot:
Micro.blog will very likely be the last online community for which I create an account for something approaching personal use.
Patrick Rothfuss is back to blogging:
Just a little thing to remind me that not everything is covid. That there’s still joy to be had in the world.
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They do simple but helpful things, like adding open graph and Twitter cards for rich previews of content on various platforms, site search and footnote popups.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wiseman’s Fear 💬
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be … But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
— Patrick Rothfuss 💬
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J. R. R. Tolkien 💬
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens 💬
Moving from Windows + Google -> Apple involves a lot of manual work. Effectively transcribing.
I suppose Apple was lying when they said “Windows users LOVE iPad!”
No wonder they lean hard into “What’s a computer?”
I’m not one of those people.
Just @brentsimmons being classy as fuck again. 😎
But excuse me, I’m not going to write about it anymore. Instead I’m going to do my best to do what I love and care about, professionally. It’s good for my mental health to pursue what makes me happy. It’s more important now than ever.
– @vincent, Dealing with uncertain times
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The app is designed to be stable and fast.
– @brentsimmons, emphasising the most important feature of any app for the launch of NetNewsWire on iOS.
The NetNewsWire blog is a great model of development blogging, and there is a Micro.blog account: @NetNewsWire
Cocooning actually doesn’t help us acquire or retain the necessary skills for interacting with others (or even recognizing their innate humanity) outside our highly selective bubbles.
A young person doesn’t turn 18 and realise ‘oh, my voting location is here’… too many people assume that just because we have the internet, everything is obvious, and it’s not.
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
– Maurice Switzer; Mrs. Goose, her book
Face masks play a very important role in places like hospitals, but there is very little evidence of widespread benefit for members of the public.
– The NHS