A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
"Apart From Code"
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"The Original Sin of Free Software"
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"“But I’m not a lawyer. I’m an agent.”"
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"Take my wife, please !"
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"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
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"After the perfect picture, what?"
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"Adactio: Journal—Food and music"
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"Going Paper-Free for $220 / Steve Losh"
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"Brexit is Suez 2.0 | Memex 1.1"
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"Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner) | CultureBy – Grant McCracken"
Just as desktop publishing didn't turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of "radio" doesn't turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.
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Sometimes, it’s the data you’re missing that’s the key to understanding something
Illuminating anecdote from WW2.
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On Cash, in which a busker prompts Tim Bray to reassess his priorities
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with a really good voice: When I’m sad, she comes to me… plenty room between the notes and lots of soul in them. He looked a little hard-pressed; I put my hand in my pocket for some coin but there was no coin there because I live on plastic these days and that busker went unpaid that morning. Another reason for a thing I’m thinking of: Going back to cash.
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"Geohashing expedition 2018-08-23 50 -1"
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"Owning Your Content - Blottings"
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