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Dr. Johnson in The Adventurer on August 28, 1753: “. . . I shall, therefore, venture to inculcate to my ingenious contemporaries, the necessity of reading, the fitness of consulting other understandings than their own, and of considering...
Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re...
Devotion is more than just belief. It is a distinction I make with my religious characters, the witches in particular. Take Stephanie and Faye; they are witches in every sense of practice. They put in the work, they learn their craft,...
Notice what the last three weeks had in common. (Week 1, Week 2, Week 3)Listing your options. Making a timelines of your constraints. Working out what you're actually good at. Every one of those can be done alone, at a kitchen table, in...
Last Saturday, I thought that I could do with time out. So I joined the Dawes van for a trip to Tenterden. They had a small model railway exhibition at the station, and we thought that we’d have a train ride too. So we headed east, and...
A long, long time ago, I tried out on bass for a local country artist. He still plays around some, and there's no way, even if I prompted him, he would remember the audition. But I was a "punk rock-style player" and thought country was...
Actually, a fungi. After some showers a bunch of mushrooms suddenly appeared in a planter that is currently just soil. How do they even appear so quickly? Sorcery! Shot with a Samsung Galaxy S26 and with me crouching way down.
Run classic HyperCard stacks on modern macOS
Hello friends, It has been a long time between dispatches. Sickness and the stress of getting a game shipped this year has kept me busy. Who knew game development could be hard? I actually haven't been doing any gaming for the past few...
And of course the same thing on Micro.blog.
A feature in Feedbin that I have never used. Maybe I remove it at some point, but it’s a start.
An un-bylined Canadian Press report: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as tensions with Canada worsen. Elect stupid people and get stupid policies. This...
I have officially reached peak 🍊. I will no longer watch anything related to this 80-year-old-man-baby-with-a-sharpie. Begone.
The best time to sell a convertible is in the summer. No one wants to buy a car with no roof in the snow, or when rain is hammering down. Conversely, the best time to buy a convertible is in the winter. You'll stand a better chance of a...
If there was a progress bar attached to the latest Bear Alley books, it would take a little jump forward for the work that has been completed this week. I finally managed to get through all the artwork for what will be two volumes and...