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I have written about pdf-tools quite a few times – it’s a fantastic Emacs package for viewing and annotating pdfs without leaving the comfort of Emacs. It is not ideal, though – or at least, not ideal for me. One feature of Emacs I often...
Federico Viticci: Perhaps it’s not the most poetic image, me having a deep realization about my career and the company I write about as I’m staring at the back of two men’s heads. Whenever you’re lucky enough to find it, you have to...
June's Mid-month Feature: Cyberrats in Space, crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
Perhaps the weirdest song and video we've ever made.
On Friday evening the United States Government has forced Anthropic to take down all access to Fable and Mythos. It’s been a rough weekend. Dean W. Ball: One thing about AI regulation being haphazardly imposed on just-released, highly...
While I’m still curating a score/soundtrack version of The List, I decided to go ahead and share an edition with artists I’ve never covered before. It can get synthy and… French Inhaler — “TV LOVE” This song caught my attention for a few...
Marcin Wichary: I’ve been emulating the Apple Lisa recently, and I was struck by how many of its UI strings were slightly or wholly different than what we’re used to. It makes sense. Lisa came out in 1983 as Mac’s predecessor and really...
Anatoly Liberman, the Oxford etymologist, takes off on spelling after reading of the winner of the latest Spelling Bee contest. Spelling gymnastics be damned; he confides “I have been dealing with students most of my life. Among the...
Today's links AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Makers v dog with LED collar; Microsoft buys...
Another new week, and thus a new Fantasy with Friends post: the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the […]
The Quantel Paintbox was one of the first computer systems designed to create and manipulate digital graphics in a manner that was much closer to painting and drawing than computer programming. The technology was launched in 1981, and...
The World Cup is here and I am loving the wall-to-wall football. The scheduling of the matches isn't ideal for our timezone, but I'm enjoying waking up to video highlights. And although the politics and grubby monetisation are awful, the...