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✈️ It's great to see that one of my favourite iOS focus apps FocusFlight got an update to version 2. And just like before, it offers an excellent (onboarding) experience! Unpacking my membership card How far I've travelled My flight log...
Matt Birchler: Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and your device, lots of which is available without requesting elevated permissions. It’s a fun app, but what I love about it is...
Q: Why is the present tense, not the past, used in this sentence: “I hear you’re leaving the country”? And why are “see” and “hear” now dynamic, not stative, on TV news? Grammar books say you can’t use progressive tenses with stative...
When it comes to AI, there are 1) lots of people doing practical things with AI and 2) lots of people writing about AI. They rarely overlap. 🙂 But overlap they do in this post! For those of you not doing practical things with AI, skip to...
In my last post on Obsidian I talked about the problem of getting an inbox to obsidian on mobile. What I haven't covered is processing and writing those captures. While the reason to use Drafts.app is the quick capture, an...
Trafiłem na fascynujący film na YouTube oraz zestaw badań naukowych, które tylko pogłębiają moją niechęć do cardio. Jako grubas który jednocześnie nie lubi spędzać godzin na ćwiczeniach, zwłaszcza monotonnych, z nieukrywaną przyjemnością...
In All Things Must Pass, the bittersweet post-mortem of Tower Records, they eventually come to the part of the story when the wheels really started to fall off. The part where the banks come in and decide they know what’s best — that...
a widely circulated fanfiction-cum-copypasta entitled “Purple Eyes and Other Interesting Anomalies”, written in 1998
The Royal Navy has spent the past 14 weeks gearing up a mine countermeasures response to send to the Persian Gulf region. That mission will be the 16,000-ton civilian-manned Bay-class auxiliary RFA Lyme Bay (L3007), loaded up with lots...
Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s “Tell It To the Marines,” an interbellum silent film featuring the great Lon Chaney, began filming in the summer of 1926, specifically running from 7 June to 3 August, for a Christmas weekend release. The first film...
On the eve of a large international tactical expo, FN Herstal raised the curtain on a new rifle for its 2026 catalog, the ARKA. Blending elements of the famed FN SCAR series with familiar AR ergonomics in a short-stroke piston system...
Ooops. I didn’t mean to let this much of a gap go between newsletters. The first week was an accident. We were busy and I forgot to write one. Then we were busy and I just didn’t write another one. … Continue reading → The post As Of...