Reminder: Calibre is the thing you want for e-books with less Amazon.
Turns out I’m still really into Micro.blog*.
* I could easily add more along the same lines of the last point.
Is there really no such thing as currently playing in Overcast? Trying to get Play Next to make sense and control my current listening session is quite difficult when compared to Pocket Casts.
Maybe it’s my SE? I know that Marco can’t wait to drop support for it.
I’m going to try something:
I will take all of the online shopping I do (it’s not that much, one of the virtures of being relatively poor) and find physical alternatives.
I like the idea of opting out of the vast majority of commerce websites entirely.
The problem isn’t that I want a dog.
The problem is that I want all of the dogs.
Home screen: January, 2020 (null)
Neither is it for the weak in Spirit. For, being Black in America oftentimes means living in and loving a country, that does not love us back. You may take exception to my premise but you cannot discount my experience.
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Super sad to see Omnibear missing from Firefox.
ProtonMail’s calendar is now in beta. This a piece of software for which I would be willing to drop Fantastical, and Fantastical is one of my favourite apps.
Days since last Facebook scandal
One for your bookmarks. A reminder that no amount of good things people get from Facebook should make us ignore the far-reaching damage it is doing to our species.
It’s like smoking cigarettes and pretending that’s a fine thing to do.
For 2020, I will embrace the power of sleep.
Developing your thoughts and a clear position in a written form that you are comfortable with people reading and using as the basis of a discussion is a terrific quality bar for those thoughts.
– Stephen Kuenzli, Key practices for achieving large professional goals
A quick New Years Eve note regarding TIL. Looking forward to doing more, and doing it better.
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Reddit is finally eating itself alive.
In the real world, free web services cannot be sustained without great compromise to the service itself.
Steve Jobs used to talk about Apple being uncomfortable working with orifices. I feel comfortable using this word as a label for the corporate web silos.
Slack’s composer really is terrible now, isn’t it.
I would very much like to upgrade to Flickr Pro but how can anyone trust this page?
One of the cruellest things the ambient culture can teach people is that criticism is bad and any sign of it must be immediately refuted.
The music you listen to when you fall in love… now that is magic.
This is my favourite week of the year.
Plain text > all of your proprietary faves
Just like with Today I Learned, I’m going to disappear for the holidays. Bye!