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October 1, 2023

  • Created Email forwarding services to research this category to replace Namecheap email forwarding
  • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names by Patrick McKenzie came across my reading again today. Important to have at hand for #naming
    • Related Awesome Falsehoods Programmers Believe
  • Supernote, an #e-ink tablet
    • Made in #France, 420EU for the A5 size
    • Can’t really find details on software that it runs
  • Robin Berjon
    • Community is a resource. Maybe we should stop mining it. One reason I’m here is because I believe that well-architected, user-centric social media can be regenerative of community instead of extractive.

    • Comment on this article Americans are choosing to be alone. Here’s why we should reverse that. Washington Post on BlueSky #community
    • Robin Sloan, on the singer Lorde’s unique email newsletter
      • When a message arrives, it feels like (and this requires real precision and control) you have just received a long rambly email from a (very smart, hugely successful) friend.

        Lorde’s messages do not belong to the internet of Twitter or Instagram; they don’t belong to the internet of Substack, either. You can’t link to them! So they aren’t even part of the World Wide Web — not really. They constitute their own special thing.

      • I won’t quote Sloan quoting Lorde, but it’s excellent
  • Yanko Design Onyx BOOX Palma EReader Review #BOOX #e-ink
    • Smartphone shaped and sized ereader from BOOX that runs Android, but Wi-Fi / Bluetooth only. Currently $280USD.
    • BOOX Palma

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