Tip: Pastebin Alternative Built Into Warp, One-Click Command Sharing

I found Warp a while back on a Hacker News thread and fell in love with its simple AI integration (just type in # and any text prompt to get an instant command ready prompt). Now I have another reason to love the app: built-in sharing! Like a built-in Pastebin, you can right click on […]

Ghandi’s remarkably prescient words on civilization’s greatest tests

Om Malik shared on his blog this powerful excerpt of Mahatma Ghandi from 1909 (the full piece is available in Lapham’s Quarterly). He speaks of the true tests of civilization induced by ever-growing ease and creature comforts. The writing foreshadows what we are living in today: absolute luxury with lacquered thin-sheeted morality. This excerpt especially […]

The sound has a name: Shave and a Haircut

I’ve heard this all my life, hummed it myself, and consider it the original ear worm. And now I know the name of it (via Hacker News): “Shave and a Haircut” and the associated response “two bits” is a seven-note musical call-and-response couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, […]

Don’t pull apart the petals, enjoy the flower as is

This Vox article (via Kottke) is an excellent look at the power of art interpretation from your vantage point. I particularly connected with this quote: “There’s an effort to create work that you don’t have to spend a lot of time thinking about,” the multidisciplinary artist Gregg Deal told me. Yet he believes that critical […]

“Write because ideas matter, not authorship”

James Shelley paints the perfect portrait on why writing still matters, where the fun truly lies: So, what’s the fun of writing on the internet anymore? Well, if your aim is to be respected as an author, there’s probably not much fun to be had here at all. Don’t write online for fame and glory. […]

I feel like a spreadsheet superstar with GPT-4 as my sidekick

I remember hearing once that smart folks are lazy, always seeking shortcuts to do less. It was (and still is) a validating quote for me. Case in point, I was asked to take some survey data and turn them into pie charts. Not too difficult, right? Here is what the original data looks like: Well, […]

Paying for search? Yes, yes I do. Kagi changed my mind.

As an experiment, I started a trial of Kagi, a homebrew search engine from Palo Alto, in October 2023. But I told myself, for me to really feel the effects of Kagi, to see if it has staying power, I had to make sure I could run Kagi searches everywhere. So I enabled the browser […]