: ‘Thusly’ is not a word. ‘Thus’ is already an adverb. That is all.
: Maybe I can still appear on a Top 70 Under 70 list.
: Hans Christian Andersen is said to have feared being buried alive and to have left a note on his …
: “A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with …
: Author says “Having that information is like wearing a neon sign that says ‘this is a very wise …
: ‘Thrival’ should be a word, analogous to ‘survival’.
: Freudian slip i just heard in a businesss podcast: “murders and acquisitions”
: Just realized I had a full Genuine Joe loyalty card and now I may never get my free coffee. :-(
: I missed this back in October: 100th anniversary of the first transatlantic passenger zeppelin …
: Still can’t believe he does all that crazy stuff for the International Monetary Fund. …
: If you can say “pizza” you can learn to pronounce “Zettelkasten” correctly.
: TIL that “graft” is apparently UK slang for diligent effort. I was a bit surprised to read an …
: Good insight from Bill Seitz’s Hack Your Life With a Private Wiki Notebook: the very few tasks in …
: Starting to think texting STOP to political text spam is up there with “unsubscribing” from email …
: The trick is to build a black box… with a lid you can open.
: Drinking Turkish-style coffee is all about it sipping that last little bit of liquid without getting …
: Nobody names their kids Vannevar any more.
: Suspect all these guys trying to shoot Trump are time travelers from the future.
: Thinking I might just hold off till next year to get a new iPhone so I can set up a new Apple ID in …
: Text untouched by human hands: “highbrow belongings” as synonym for “intellectual …
: Taxi driver just now: “I am Vladimir. But no Putin!!!”
: I swear overzealous “security” in macOS has caused way more disruptions in my workflows than actual …
: Obsidian, like emacs back in the day, is not so much an application as an operating system
: Until this week the Harris campaign has been no policy, just vibes, and maybe that’s exactly …
: Why are there multiple English translations of Luhmann’s Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen available …
: Everyone should know that 1964 is a most excellent year to be born in.
: Potentially unpopular opinion: B2B spam is still spam.
: Do not approach local wildlife.
: Trying again: my view for the next few weeks
: My view for the next few weeks
: How is it possible that in 37 years I have never noticed these stairs?!
: ERA now! It’s time! eracoalition.org
: I’m on a boat! OK, it’s just a ferry boat. Still.
: The Parkinson’s story is Project Veritas–level BS. And the doctor’s name is Cannard?! Come on, …
: Cleaning tip I just at discovered: hand-wash dish detergent is great for removing bathtub soap scum.
: I want to live in a house with an observatory.
: Lab; much of the equipment in the photo was actually found here at the site.
: The four elements (original to the site but restored, according to the guide)
: Stairway to the underground alchemical laboratory
: A few pics from on this evening’s stroll.
: May have found the place for Coffee Shop Office Hours in Prague. Stately Viennese-style hi-society …
: Classic sausage company logo. Some men like sausages and there’s nothing wrong with that.
: Wore a sleep mask so the very early light this time of year wouldn’t wake me up. It didn’t work.
: What happens if he’s in prison and he’s elected? He was convicted by the state of New York, can’t …
: Not sure how to pronounce this. (The food is pretty good actually.)
: Still figuring out how multiple Micro.blog blogs work. Right now I have two and I’m considering a …
: Finally got around to setting up cross-posting from Micro.blog to Mastodon and Bluesky. Greetings, …
: Dammit, bought a little portable scanner after reading a review that said it supports two-sided …
: Any non-US native English speakers here? Is “How do you do?” something people actually still say in …
: Czech habits: never make eye contact with strangers on the sidewalk, but always greet the staff when …
: Worrying trend of beer being sold in 0.4 l. glasses.
: Well hell, seems I slept through the aurora.
: Coffee shop life (Coffee Corner Bakery, Prague)
: No Boeings today. Just might make it to the other side alive.
: Just read a reference to Constellation and discovered that I remember watching it, but have …
: I think I already posted this photo shortly after I took it, but since the photo challenge prompt …
: My electric company just informed me that I’m at risk of losing my $50 credit for not wasting enough …
: Half of the supposed differences between US and British English taught to foreign English learners …
: I haven’t seen anyone point out that Dune is basically Lawrence of Arabia in spaaace. Just too …
: You can always tell when someone has served time in the helium mines. The voice… it never completely …
: Only one prisoner has ever escaped the helium mines of Saturn.
: Love this line from Patrick Rothfuss: “But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of …
: Also great for fighting xenomorph queens. www.globaltrademag.com/enter-the…
: At Port Aransas. Not exactly beach weather yet this time of year, but the fresh air and seafood are …
: It’s a well-deserved honor, and I hope it will expose more people to his work, but …
: Happy International Mother Language Day! Taken literally, my “mother language” is Low German — …
: Another gorgeous day for Coffee Shop Office Hours at Mozart’s on Lake Austin. Come by and say howdy …
: There’s got to be a better way to run an election campaign than constantly spamming your own …
: Congratulations to the Cherokee Nation on securing a $900,000 language preservation grant from the …
: Applications are open for the 2024 Texas State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant program, which …
: It’s a gorgeous springlike day on Lake Austin, where I’m holding Coffee Shop Office …
: I can’t really call it Office Hours today since I’ll only be here about half an hour, but I’m …
: Tuesday Coffee Shop Office Hours on foggy Lake Austin at Mozart’s today. I’ll only be here for about …
: Not all Michelin star restaurants offer free tire rotations but you can usually get gas.
: ☞ This season is about launching!
: Is anyone else noticing their iPhone duplicating text they just typed? For exampleample — well, I …
: There’s the Big Deadline (emphasis on “dead”). But now that I’ve booked my flight for a five-month …
: Holding Coffee Shop Office Hours at Merit Coffee in the Triangle today. Come by andd say hello if …
: It’s not just the diversity of languages themselves, but also that of the writing systems that …
: This is a remarkable sentence: “In the wilds of Rajasthan a naked army of shaven-headed Hindu sadhus …
: On a day like today, putting on jeans straight out of the dryer feels really good!
: Holding Thursdays Coffee Office Hours at Genuine Joe as usual. Drop by and say howdy if you’re in …
: Wordle 927 6/6 ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
: Thursday Coffee Office Hours at Genuine Joe. Come drop by and say howdy if you’re in the …
: I am horrified by yesterday’s mass shooting in my beloved once-and-future “third …
: Thursday Coffee Office Hours at Genuine Joe on Anderson Lane, Austin. Come say hi if you’re in the …
: Starting Office Hours a little late today, but if you’re anywhere near Genuine Joe on Anderson Lane …
: Somehow entered the same destination in both Google Maps and Apple Maps this afternoon and ended up …
: I’m in Dallasas today so no Genuine Joe office hours this weekk.
: Thursday office hours at Genuine Joe on Anderson Ln. Come by and say hi if you’re in the area and …
: Back to basics? I’m starting to ask myself just how many of the yaks from this herd wandering around in my …
: Austinitas and Austineros, I’ll be holding “office hours” tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at Genuine …
: I’m starting a habit of holding “office hours” at Genuine Joe on Anderson Lane on Thursday …
: Swift Passage 2.0 will support language revitalization groups As I reboot my business (more on that in a later post), I’m committed to making a positive …
: ☞ The coming week is about finding the groove.
: Yay fall, high today only 98.
: Actually blimp is an irregular verb meaning to travel by dirigible. I blamp from Dallas to Austin; I …
: Finder alias bug in Ventura 13.5.1 macOS Ventura 13.5.1 seems to have introduced an interesting bug in my system. After updating the OS …
: Doc Searls et all, doing the Lord’s work on “wide” local news in Bloomington, IN.
: Never trust automation that you didn’t build yourself.
: Guys, I guarantee you no planet and its moon “share an atmosphere” anywhere in the far-flung worlds …
: Got it in three, but not convinced today’s Wordle is a real word.
: Tried to post this last week while I was still in NM/CO but I don’t think it went through. This is …
: Osier, CO on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
: Locomotive on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama, NM
: I can’t be the only one to have noticed that Hunter Biden is an identical lab-grown clone twin of …
: Mission San Jose, San Antonio
: Another of San Juan. Clouds moving in.
: Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio
: Espada Aqueduct, San Antonio
: The Espada Mission, San Antonio
: To dreep, perchance to sleam.
: Look what just landed in the tree behind my apartment.
: Given that I can get a URL link to pretty much any digital object I may be interested in, and can …
: Hey @manton , you seem to do a lot of train travel. I’m thinking of heading out to the Big Bend for …
: Any Canadians reading this? What do you put in your cars, “gasoline”/“gas” or “petrol”? (This is …
: Barry Olsen in *MultiLingual* on the impact of artificial intellence An insightful article about the current state of machine translation and what it suggests about the …
: I’d rather be writing the software that will replace my job.
: Trying to trim a 1.6 million TU translation memory down to 75,000 or so, to leave some room for …
: ☞ This season is about spinning the flywheel.
: Kourosh Dini asks an important question: “What differentiates perfectionism from mastery?
: Watching season 11 of The Walking Dead. Starting to root for the zombies.
: I find myself trying to spin up three different mostly unrelated businesses plus hit fitness goals …
: ☞ Next week is about agency.
: ☞ Next week is about engineering.
: ☞ This week is about momentum.
: ☞ Next week is about unarchiving SPT.
: None of my old Safari web archives from a few years ago will open any more.
: ☞ Next week is about making it click.
: Working with the garage door up: MetaboLog A few weeks ago I finished Paul Hudson’s excellent 100 Days of SwiftUI course. The next step …
: In Big Bend Ranch State Park last week
: SwiftUI class notes 2022-01-29 For now at least, weekends (and holidays) are the only times I really have the opportunity to focus …
: Why do Markdown unordered lists in my micro.blog posts look fine in the Mac app preview but display …
: SwiftUI class notes 2022-01-23 Still working on getting my head wrapped around UIViewRepresentable and …
: Excellent explanation by @twostraws of using UIViewControllerRepresentable and Coordinator to …
: SwiftUI class notes 2022-01-02 Just like it says in the title, Peter Friese’s Building a To-Do List App with SwiftUI, …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-12-12 Friese’s Task model: enum TaskPriority { case high case medium case low } struct Task: …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-12-05 Not following a tutorial today, just going to see if I can wrangle control of EventKit. On weekends …
: Alternative Christmas movies for people who hate holiday sentimentality: OK, I’ll give you …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-12-02 macOS custom menu command https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/creating-a-macos-app …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-11-28 Apple tutorial: Interfacing with UIKit Completely lost on this coordinator stuff. import SwiftUI …
: What do y’all think: update MailSuite and stick with Mail.app for another year, or drop a few …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-11-25 Yes, even on Thanksgiving. (I suppose I should write something about how grateful I am to have the …
: SwiftUI class notes 2021-11-24 Still in the Apple SwiftUI tutorial. I don’t like that the tutorial is having me drag in …
: An experiment: blogging my "class notes" 2021-11-23 Should I track down the source of the “snag” or just go on with the tutorial? I …
: Other than manually disabling and later reenabling cross-posting, is there a way to post to …
: Back to (micro-) blogging, in the spirit of Andy Matuschak’s concept of “Working with …
: Mission San Jose, San Antonio, 2020-12-25
: Hi folks — I’m trying to decide whether I want to drop $300+ on an external Thunderbolt SSD. …
: Once again our Black sisters and brothers have shouldered the burden of saving this nation’s soul. …
: Emergence I’ve been thinking a lot about “emergence” lately, since with luck we’ll all …
: My sister in Germany just sent this:
: What are we building after the plague? Because the world is never going back to “normal”. It’ll be …
: Zettelkasten A Zettel is a slip of paper; a Zettelkasten is a “slip box”. Since that phrase …
: US distillers have been hard-hit by EU tariffs, but other high-growth export markets remain. Learn …
: Swift Passage is offering free assistance with 2020 State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant …
: Sometimes the value of reading a book is as much in the ideas it shakes loose in one’s own …
: Unless it’s just a short underground section of a longer line, I’m having a hard time …
: My old Toastmasters friend Lukáš Liebich is becoming quite a storyteller. …
: Seems AccountEdge is giving up on ever building a 64-bit (Catalina-compatible) version. Can anyone …
: Testing Testing post from MarsEdit 2020-01-10 12:34
: TAP TAP! Zis thing work? (Testing cross-posting from micro.blog to Twitter and LinkedIn)
: It seems “Death to America!” isn’t actually as bad as it sounds in …