Reposted Markdown Web - Yes, you read that right. by Dirk Primbs I love seeing people finding ways to add markdown support to their websites. My Markdown Browser has been an amazing tool to highlight the good and bad in the Web of Markdown. My website should also be serving better Markdown now.

I’ve been more interested in exploring how to simultaneously enjoy Greek yoghurt, orange marmalade and the glorious golden-hour light that pervades my living room than, well, most other things, so this week was a bit of a bust as far as personal projects go. Part of that is because I have finally swapped the Surface loaner I was using for a brand new machine (more on that later) and am also returning the Lenovo Chromebook I recently reviewed, so I had to spend a little while making sure nothing…

This week’s release of games for Playdate’s Season 3 includes my game Sound Mind, my second finished game for the platform. It’s a two-player pass-and-play game where you’re one of two siblings locked inside your recently-deceased father’s haunted study, trying to get the most of his cursed fortune for yourself while hiding it from the other. Inside the room, there are various hiding places as well as traps you can set for the other player, to hinder them and slow them down. Most importantly,…

A couple of weeks ago, I went to update my VPS. Usually, I do this once a week, sometimes more frequently depending on any security news I see. I should probably have the AI agents I use do this, but I do it myself for now. I find infrastructure interesting and "boring" in a good way most of the time. While updating one of my VPSes, I got a message saying I needed to pay for access to Caddy because the repository had reached its bandwidth limit. This was from a company called Cloudsmith. I…

A couple of weeks ago, I went to update my VPS. Usually, I do this once a week, sometimes more frequently depending on any security news I see. I should probably have the AI agents I use do this, but I do it myself for now. I find infrastructure interesting and "boring" in a good way most of the time. While updating one of my VPSes, I got a message saying I needed to pay for access to Caddy because the repository had reached its bandwidth limit. This was from a company called Cloudsmith. I…

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I was way too #SERIOUSFACE with Monday’s review, so I had to lighten the mood with one of the products that has brought me the most joy this year. This uniball One P is one of my favorites, but I still don’t fully comprehend what uniball is doing here with the Zento cross-marketing. Regardless, this is the perfect giveaway item, and the winner is: Congrats Eric! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here’s what I want to talk about today. For all where can actually be counted, But in 1914, Littlewood shocked the world by sketching a proof that changes sign infinitely often! Littlewood’s proof didn’t say when first exceeds He gave his student…

Today I uncovered a nice hack for building a product demo. I had a bunch of Cleanshot screenshots I wanted to present in a Keynote slideshow. If you select all your screenshots and drop them into the left-hand slide navbar on Mac Keynote, each one becomes its own slide in the deck. This let me create a polished presentation in about five total minutes of work, including collecting the screenshots.

The weather has been most unpleasant today, so we stayed inside, enjoying being bored. So much so, that Uno came out.29 words · 1 image

“Nobody becomes an icon without help.” That was part of Ruben Blades’ speech when receiving the 2026 Billboard Icon Award. Sorry, I found out by doomscrolling on Instagram. In my defense, sometimes it gives me inspiration for ideas—like this one. After that line, he started to mentioned a list of singers, producers, and orchestras who bet on him. I’m not an icon, but I’ve received help from lots of people to get to where I’m at in my career. One day, someone made an introduction for my first…

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Miller HighlifeI've been sober since the day after March 14th of this year. The last sip of beer I had was harrowing; I just had to corral my black-out drunk dad out of a sushi restaurant, into a car, and get him home safe. He's hard of hearing, and at this time didn't have his hearing aids, so he was speaking at a level that a normal person would describe as "yelling". He wanted some sports game on, so he was drunkenly trying to explain to the chef that he wanted that on the TV. The TV in…

Mac nerds love two things: RSS readers and outliners. I spent well over a year using Windows 11, and a lot of that time searching for native RSS readers and outliners for the OS. The Mac is an embarrassment of riches in these two categories. OmniOutliner for iPadOS OmniOutliner is the GOAT of macOS outliners, and it remains one of the best apps I use, full stop. I love Bike, too, and use it all the time. And I’ve tried (but not purchased) Kosshi. Zavala, of course, is another great (and free)…

Favorited Bunkering Down by Matt Webb After 26 years Matt Webb quits hosting his stuff on his own hardware. Because he feels an extreme asymmetry is coming between automated exploits, such as the one in PHP this week (and others that got less attention) and time needed to counter it when you run your own machines. I quit hosting this blog on my own hardware a long time ago, 2007, when maintaining a box underneath the desk in the home office became too much of a chore. But I have always…

There’s an old saying in the theatre biz. No show is ever really ready on opening night. It’s a cliché that has seen it’s time pass in the big money commercial circuit because so many producers run lengthy preview weeks, charging essentially, but not quite, full price to avoid reviewers publishing their criticisms until the show is officially open. The preview process began lengthing after the days of out-of-town tryouts came to an end, although we see that still happening occasionally as…

Last week I stood on a stage in La Punta, in the province of San Luis, Argentina, and gave a keynote in English to an audience that heard almost none of my English. What they heard, through the speakers in the hall, was the voice of a Spanish interpreter working a fraction of a second […] Source

Heard about your website from the great Fun For All Ages Podcast, so I’m wondering if anyone remembers a Japanese cartoon that I saw on local NY television when I was around 5 or 6 years old, black and white (which I’m assuming was just because my TV set was a black and white model!) in which I specifically recall a female character who resembled a classic Japanese “geisha” who ends up drowning and reincarnating into a mermaid…? Is this merely a false memory? Also, I seem to recall another…

It make me irrationally annoyed when the junk drawer has toothpicks all over the place. Printed this little box and problem solved!

I mentioned that I want to avoid the “Claude aesthetic” in this blog’s design. It’s not that I have anything against it, really, or against AI-built websites as a concept. My hope, though, is that this AI frenzy provokes a renewed appreciation for handcrafted things, and I want this site to be a vote for that in some small way. And so, with a heaping megadose of irony, I used an LLM to help me make this blog look less LLM-generated. The choices, for now First, I went for the paper-on-desk look.…

For quite a while now I’ve been hoping that OmniFocus would add support for landscape mode on the iPhone, and with the most recent update they finally have. I almost never use my iPhone in landscape mode (unless I’m watching a video) as I don’t find it all that useful for most apps, but with OmniFocus I can definitely see myself getting into the habit of turning my phone around when I open the app.I’ve just barely had the time to play around with the feature, but so far it seems like exactly…

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I'm a practising Quaker, and the Quaker testimonies are an important part of how I try to live my life. They're often summarised by the acronym SPICES: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship. These are values I believe in deeply. Yet believing in something and consistently putting it into practice are two different things. It's surprisingly easy to get caught up in everyday routines, react impatiently to something online, make a convenient decision without thinking…

Jeff Johnson: The Safari web browser has a longstanding annoying misfeature: it announces “Reader Available” and “Translation Available” in the address bar, whether you like it or not, with no way I know of to stop that madness. This behavior is bad on Mac, worse on iPhone. Below is a screen recording of Safari on Mac. Yes, and it gets worse. The worst part of this behaviour is, for me, the translation icon in Safari on MacOS. When “Translation Available” is displayed, the icon is grey and…

In their walknotes last week, DW ended with: Post, before you become a person that doesn’t post. …and, I realised I have once again become a "person that doesn't post". Future-me always gets really annoyed with past-me when that happens, so current-me is going to try and fix that. Thanks for the kick DW So, in no particular order, this is some stuff that's been happening: I moved off 1Password because of their whole supporting fascists thing. Currently looking to move off Digital Ocean, again…

Autograph Hound Saturday yet again! Today Paul Dobish provides the eye candy for John Hancock fans with a couple of books from his collection signed by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. — otherwise known as E. E. “Doc” Smith. Hugely popular in his day, one of the pioneers of pulp science fiction, an avatar for the likes of Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov to follow, his achievement currently represented by the cinematic oeuvre of George Lucas — in short, he did space opera. And how. Top image, Smith’s…

Ghost Rider (detail, 1973) by Bruce Pennington. • Steven Heller’s font of the month is Dez Bollardian. My own font of the month is Nosferatu, a design by Sarah Salome Deletain and Jules Durand loosely inspired by the lettering on the German intertitle cards from FW Murnau’s Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens. • The week in photography: Winners of the Nikon 2026 Microphotography Competition; Winners and finalists of the American Meteorological Society 2026 Photo Contest; The Lion Nebula as…

My comment on Is Teams really all that bad? – LinkedIn “When async chat tools work, they’re like a conference room where the dev team works through an outage. There’s a history of what’s been said. Specialists and management can step in and observe, without interrupting. Teams takes a more DM-like approach that silos communication. In high-stakes situations, it feels like you’re fighting the issue and the tool.” I’d caveat that my Teams experience all relates to fully-remote work.