This Shortcut—which automagically works on both MacOS and iOS—receives a URL from the “Share Sheet” and sends it to to a URL, ...

My friend (and prototypical blogger) Catherine gave me her Olympia Monica electric typewriter many years ago. After a flurry ...

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of posts, an RSS feed of comments, or a podcast RSS feed that just contains audio posts. You ...

Last week, [Jamelle] Bouie published a 14 minute video on YouTube called Everything is Gender which is “a look at the gender politics of, and gender anxieties behind, MAGA foreign policy in the second ...

But Zoom changed the world. As a low-barrier-to-entry, cross-platform, free (for 40 minutes) videoconferencing app that, ...

Another book I read this month, found, in this case, not by Parnassus, by by Lisa, who noticed it’s been filmed for release later this year, is The Salt Path by Raynor Winn.

Longtime readers may recall that I first encountered Gregory nine years ago, courtesy of an advertorial reference from the ...

CatCamp is halfway between regular everyday life and suspended animation, and I will be happy to sleep in my own bed tonight.

Here’s the result, people-and-blogs.opml, an OPML file that you can import into your feedreader to automagically subscribe to all of the blogs. 1. For the record, here was the prompt to Google Gemini ...

WES: Yes! The pilot light is always on. SUSAN: In a foreign country, even just going into a hardware store can be like going to a museum. WES: Buying a light bulb.

More generally, Kelly is right that we are not practiced nor particulary good, as a rule, at being kindees. “Not being a burden” is held as a high virtue. “I don’t want to put you out,” is a frequent ...

A year ago, Ton launched a project to stop buying ebooks from Amazon; a few weeks ago he provided an update . I thought of Ton’s efforts when, in How to fix a Kit Kat clock from Mike Monteiro, I read ...