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I still use my Kindle 3 Keyboard ereader from 2010. It has physical buttons and a physical keyboard and no backlight and no ads and very good contrast. I have read hundreds of books on it. It lasts several weeks on a charge and the...
Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple announced this week that Brazilian developers can finally distribute apps through alternative marketplaces and offer payment options outside Apple's own system. Cue the fireworks. Cue the...
John Higgins / The Verge: Kaleidescape gets movie files directly from the studios, encodes them at reference quality, and makes them available for download to its high-end media players and servers. They offer 4K Blu-ray quality, or...
I am back from Chennai. It was fun meeting lots of students, hearing what they think, etc. This time I met some old-time friends, which was a bonus. Conducting the workshop was also fun. I hope to build on that workshop to demystify LLMs...
I probably don’t keep up with things properly, but the last thing I expected to see today was a new single by Queen’s Roger Taylor. And featured on Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) is none other than the Ndlovu Youth Choir from South...
We have been undergoing a consuming and distracting Edward Medical Situation (Crohn’s-related) this past week, and things are finally improving: procedure done, fever gone, color restored, eating and drinking normally. Edward is...
We drove our truck about five hours from our home base to Oregon Motorcoach Center in Eugene to pick up our coach after its annual service, repairs, and improvements, then just 47 miles, about an hour of driving, from OMC to Blue Ox RV...
I was just looking through Hunter S’s video on the holiday glitches of Gamecube Animal Crossing (11 minutes). By “holiday,” it means the winter holiday, and the various weird things that are possible during this season, like using...
I'm been chewing on the idea of getting a new laptop. My current MacBook Pro is not exactly sluggish – it has 32GB RAM and the M1 Max processor – but it does chug a little with Lightroom, has 2TB storage which isn't quite enough, plus it...
Zachary Kai runs a series on his site called Shelf Source featuring “readers who share books they love on their sites.” He reached out about me completing the questionnaire, and as I am all too eager to talking about books and reading I...
I did a lot of little projects when I started programming. Small websites that explored a concept. They were simple, they were meaningless, and most importantly, they were fun. I miss that. I need to start this again. Pattern is a first...
Over in the VIP Lounge, I published a small ebook of readers’ favorite quotes from 20+ years of publishing. I started it last month because I thought it would be the easiest project ever — a nice extra for paid members, filtering my...