I’d like an AirTable-like app that works locally on the desktop and saves files to my filesystem. I have Excel and Numbers but they’re not right, exactly. What would you recommend?
Pretty excited for this iteration of White Rich Guy Wears a Mask to Beat Up Poor People in the Rain.
Some days - like today - I feel like the luckiest person on earth.
My dad on Only Murders in the Building: “it’s no Squid Game.”
AI-based copywriting platforms can never replace human writers. Tell me why I'm wrong.
Pretty subtle critique of capitalism you’ve got there, Squid Game.
Who are the most successful publicly very left-aligned (i.e., not just liberal) people in the tech industry?
"Undo send" doesn't always save my neck, but when it does, it really does.
I still can’t believe Nick Clegg is a Facebook exec. It’s almost - almost! - as if the man has no shame and can be bought by any cause.
Drinking wine and watching Bill and Ted Face the Music with my dad. No judgment plz.
Once again I’ve cooked more food than three people can reasonably eat. Woe is me.
So, I’ve started to write small flash fiction pieces and post them on Medium regularly. I don’t want to put them on my blog, but I’m beginning to think Medium isn’t the place. Should I keep them to myself? Post them elsewhere? Make a new site?
Cursed thought: what if I built a new community platform, written in Node or Go, that could import data from Known and which supported ActivityPub and web3 natively.
Sometimes, I think I’ve decided, it’s better to take your losses.
Podcasts aren’t podcasts if you can’t choose which software you use to subscribe and play them. They’re just proprietary streaming media.
In the midst of all the criticism of critical race theory and its proponents, it seems to me that the people advancing this thinking are some of the best we have. They’re the only people pushing for true equity and a fairer society: something better than the broken status quo.
I didn’t live up to my expectations for myself and lost my temper at the end of hour two of a one hour meeting today. I almost never lose it, particularly at work. A sign that I need to step back, relax, and be human.
When people have computers embedded in their bodies retro computing fans will install Windows XP on them and draw in MS Paint with their minds
Things I'm not interested in explaining to non-technical people: why Facebook went down.
Things I am interested in explaining: how we all became so dependent on a multinational corporation and how we can reform anti-trust to make sure nothing becomes this powerful again.
Fun thing about interviewing: lots of people have tried to guess my accent, but not one single person has ever gotten it right.
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