Much to my own disappointment, I'm not a journal-in-a-notebook-with-a-fountain-pen kind of guy There’s something aesthetically appealing about notebooks and fountain pens. I love the feeling of resting my hands on real paper, of my pen effortlessly gliding over it. The paper in my notebooks is great for the ink I’m using. My fountain pen fits my hand just right, never dries out prematurely, and was a gift from my partner for my birthday. I’d love to be the kind of guy who journals, has a s...

I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do things like check notes and emails, listen to music, etc. I reached over to grab something on the other side of my desk and managed to knock an entire fucking cup of coffee all over my beloved laptop. It immediately died, I assume because of some kind of safety net built into the device. I cleaned my desk up, and headed straight home to strip it down, clean it u...

Show Bubbles Votes on Your Own Blog A small thing I've been wanting for a while: you can now drop a snippet on your blog that shows the live Bubbles vote count for each post. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see it in action. The full guide lives at https://bubbles.town/embed but here's the short version: It's one line of HTML and a script tag: ``` <div class="bubbles-vote"></div> <script src="https://bubbles.town/vote.js" defer></script> ``` That's everything you need. The widget figu...

If you have not discovered Bubbles yet, then I suggest you go and have a look.

Yesterday, Sveriges Radio (the state-run Swedish Radio) released an exposé1 of the biggest digital-healthcare providers in Sweden. They focused on Kry, but they also investigated Doktor.se and MinDoktor.se2. I listened to their two-part podcast series yesterday. Part one3 revealed a lot of information, for example: Kry earn 500 Swedish crowns (50 USD) per digital doctor visit; this money is taken from the Swedish state The tests performed by Swedish Radio reporters averaged 2.5-visits with ...

Just another post with links and things that caught my interest lately.

People are always talking about “finding joy in the little things.” Which sounds lovely, until you realize the “little things” are doing most of the heavy lifting. I mean, no one’s out here being sustained by life’s grand moments. Those happen, what, twice a year? If you’re lucky and someone else planned them. The rest […]

In the early pandemic, I decided to pick up the hobby of reading cookbooks. Fortunately, I had already gone through the phase of baking bread a couple of years earlier, so all of that was out of my system. I was pretty obsessed back then, to the point where the sourdough starter reminded me of […]

It’s spring, I think it’s spring, yes really, it’s spring, and I have to stop myself from writing about juiced-up kids and hormonal robins and the flourishing minor bulbs, all sproinging all over the place like little fireworks. It’s true that they’re the incarnation of spring but I’ve written and written about them and you […] The post I Don’t Know What the Crows Are Saying appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing.

Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead

Proposal for an EU platform that funds open-source projects using measurable criteria, benefiting developers, the EU, and society.

February 18 At Melanie’s request Wednesday morning started with pancakes. Ed is known for his buttermilk pancakes so we drove over to Kevin and Linda’s (where Ed was staying) to let him cook us breakfast. On our way to breakfast we stopped at Staples and picked up the completed print job from the day before, […]