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Why I left Mastodon
It’s technically not click bait (but it’s kind of clickbait).
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Tech is better when it kinda sucks
On the joy of tinkering and figuring things out.
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Rest is the most underappreciated productivity tool
Science shows rest makes you more productive (but that’s not why you should rest).
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Google is strip mining the web. Publishers might leave.
USA Today may pull their articles from search results to avoid feeding the AI machine. Other publications could follow.
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Zork and the social impact of design choices
A bad game from 1993 taught me that humanity isn’t necessarily doomed.
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I built a WisprFlow alternative in five minutes
I call it WisprFree and you can download it if you want (you shouldn’t)
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I turned my website into a personal social network that connects to Bluesky and the Fediverse—here’s how.
I’m tired of posting on so many different social networks, so I built my own. All it took was a WordPress website, two plugins, and a lot of fiddling.
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How to use AI without stagnating
Are you metaphorically driving a car while pretending to run a marathon?
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Our devices are exhausting us
I’m no longer working with Lifehacker, which is disappointing. But I’m grateful I got to spend two years doing one of my favorite things: finding great indie and open source tools and sharing them with readers. I couldn’t be happier that Current, a different sort of RSS reader, is the last app I wrote about over […]
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Pips and the art of feeling good about being wrong
In the short term, being confidently wrong about something feels just as good as actually being correct.