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tw93/Mole 🐹 Deep clean and optimize your Mac. It's like a CLI version of CleanMyMac (h/t Issue #216 — The Hulry Newsletter) ✍️ Reply by email

The Virtual OS Museum Want to see the earliest resident monitors? The ancestor of all modern OSes (CTSS)? The earliest versions of Unix? The first OS with a desktop metaphor GUI (Xerox Star Pilot/ViewPoint)? Early versions of mainstream OSes? If you want to explore historical OSes and platforms without having to worry about configuring/installing emulators and OSes or corrupting emulated installations, you’ve come to the right place. Amazed that this exists. I'm not an OS nerd, but maybe I will…

The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome If you look at /r/emacs, it’s 0% Product Hunt, 100% show-and-tell. ✍️ Reply by email

Thinking of starting a routine of "Unsocial Sundays" during which I avoid all social media. Today is Sunday, it's 05:52 AM, and I'm already twitchy about it. Worth a try, though. ✍️ Reply by email

A link from an earlier note lead me to: you can stick with it | ava's blog Trying out new tools and things is generally cool and I love reading the hands-on experiences, but in this case, I just see people running through things anxiously with no direction seeming stressed and sad. The behavior Ava describes fits me, but only to a point. I'll tell you why. Sure, I try new tools and things all the time, but my motivation is different. I don't try them because I'm unhappy and looking for the…

Ascetic Computing - ratfactor by Dave Gauer resonated with me. I have been unable to "Reduce & Simplify" or "Use What I Have", even after years of trying. My definition of what "simple" means changes daily. Still working on it. ✍️ Reply by email

Dave wrote about his Captain's Log, into which he logs information "too trivial to remember, but too important to forget." It's a Tinderbox document. A later post from Jacob Evans described his own "LifeBox" kept in Tinderbox. These two posts resonated with me, as I've used Tinderbox for the same thing since 2008. See my post, Tinderbox as a Daybook, from that year. Last year I revamped the Daybook and went all in. I now call it my "LifeBook" and it's awesome. My Tinderbox "LifeBook"…

FAQ: How do you use your typewriters? | Chris Aldrich Below are some various recent uses I’ve made of my typewriter collection I have a handful of nice typewriters that sit unused. I would really like to change that. Chris' list gives me a few ideas. ✍️ Reply by email

taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV You opened this page. It already knows the following. I already knew most of this, but it's still alarming to see it all at once. ✍️ Reply by email

Grove.el is "An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs". I'm already overloaded with note-taking tools, but Grove is an interesting take on the idea. It's from Jonathan Chu. Here's the introductory post. ✍️ Reply by email

Sample PDF outputRather than using a normal-person's "Read Later" service, I print long-form web articles for reading later. I print them, pile them up, and read them all when I have some time away from the computer. It's the only way I can truly pay attention to them. The process took some work to dial in, but I've gotten it close to how I like it. It goes like this: Save the page as Markdown using the Obsidian Web Clipper Convert the Markdown to PDF using Pandoc Print! First, the Obsidian Web…

There's currently another internet pile-on happening. "Everyone" is leaving Github because someone else said, "Everyone's leaving Github". I'm no fan of Github, but a handful of people will actually leave, and we'll forget about it in a week, because it's the internet. ✍️ Reply by email

"I refuse to use anything that has touched A.I. in any way!" ...later... ::rubs sticks together to make fire:: ✍️ Reply by email

Do you know why have trouble finding things? Here's why... Ghostty. TUIs and CLI tools never get old. And I still like using Vim as $EDITOR Obsidian. My resistance to using Obsidian is sometimes overcome by its utility, ubiquity, and ease of use. Emacs. My everything tool for the past decade. It's sometimes a problem for me. BBEdit. The venerable text editor that remains unmatched in utility and stability. It indeed doesn't suck. Tinderbox. Deep, powerful outlining, visual mapping, and general…

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"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* - YouTube Paul Ford is always so impressive and smart and sensible. I love reading and listening to him. ✍️ Reply by email

Paul Ford, Aboard Newsletter my hunch is that we should prepare ourselves for way, way too many apps. It's already happening, and that's just the ones I make for myself. ✍️ Reply by email

Jamberoo Fox Path - second angle Drew Truslove uses a dip pen and ink to create intricate portraits and landscape drawings. I don't understand how the mind of someone who can do this works. It's amazing. (via Dense Discovery #385) ✍️ Reply by email

I tend to use Fish Shell for a while, then stop because of weird "non-POSIX" errors or something. After a while I forget that I had problems with Fish and decide to bring it back. I did that today, after ending up neck-deep in my .oh-my-zsh configuration. Fish does nearly everything I need right out of the box: really good completion, directory jumping (via cdh), abbreviations, etc. No plugins necessary. One issue I've had is that I'd change my login shell to Fish and that can cause trouble.…

Penumbra Print Shop | Shop Magic Postcard allows you, the sender, to attach a piece of media — photo or video — that your recipient can view immediately upon delivery. It works with any phone that can scan a QR code; it requires no special app or account. Robin Sloan is kind of my hero. ✍️ Reply by email