@jsonbecker Oh, I love this topic. 🤓 And I don't think they've even "gotten" same-y, either (though I could be wrong!) — cover design definitely follows trends. Same with film posters. I love looking at, say, a dozen movies released in 2017 and compare their posters with each other than with movies released this year. I'd bet book covers, especially bestsellers from the big publishers, do likewise!
@manton Oh no! You've revealed your True Name and are now vulnerable to spells cast against you. 😬😂
@canion Nice shout-out to NNW! You also mentioned DEVONThink, and I've just started using that as my RSS reader. We'll see how it goes, but DT is such a cool app I'm inclined to squeeze as much value from it as I can. 😋 If it can be a one-stop shop for all web reading — and perhaps the notes taken from such reading — that'd be the ultimate. (Right now, of course, it mostly contains 400 PDFs/bookmarks I mean to read...)
@Archimage Gotcha! Thanks for the elaboration. And I think that's my preferred idea, too: Post things on my site, then be able to push them to both Micro and Masto.
@Archimage Just saw you're on writing.exchange, as well as here. May I ask if there's one you prefer, between M.b and Mastodon, or why you've decided to post on both?
I'm trying to make up my mind whether to be here, or on Mastodon, or on both, or etc. 😊
@devilgate Perhaps! It certainly sounds like it opened up new frontiers for him:
The process of answering your questions taught me how to write about certain things. Your questions became exercises in how to be and what to believe. I was able to construct a world view based on intimacy, vulnerability, uncertainty and commonality.
@manton The Micro.blog web interface is pretty great in mobile Safari — but any idea why post/reply composition text boxes don't support autocorrect? Typing this out is forcing me to recognize how fat-fingered I am. 😜
@hjalm @patrickrhone Antony knows his tunes. And, in case the coincidence I'm pointing out isn't obvious, he wrote the graphic novel The Coldest City, of which Atomic Blonde is an adaptation!
@jean Good call! Get the whole story… and then enjoy all the other interpretations of the story.
I came at it the other way, and spent the whole runtime of Villeneuve’s Dune going “oh, so that’s how they’re doing scene X”, and still loved every minute. 🤓
@timbray I consider myself pretty shell-savvy and I still don’t understand xargs. 😓
@devilgate I looked up the distinction a month ago and I’ve already forgotten it. 😂
@HobbieJ I recommend Kobo! Their e-readers are comparable to Kindles (I recently switched from a Paperwhite to a Clara 2E), if you’re into that, and their subscription service (akin to Kindle Unlimited) does NOT require authors to go exclusive to participate.
@gruber I think this is dead on:
I’ll go to the mat arguing that Slack is better-designed and better-implemented than Microsoft Teams. But to make a very broad analogy, I think Slack is to Teams today where Mac OS was to Windows in the mid-1990s: better designed, for sure, but not in a way that makes a difference to the corporate IT decision makers and bean counters who are making the call on which platform to use.
Having recently worked for a startup that used Slack, and now working for an enterprise that uses Teams: Teams sucks in comparison, but it doesn’t matter; it integrates easily with all the other, more important platform choices we already made.
It’s hard to imagine already-successful Salesforce getting $28bn of value from Slack… like, surely it works the other way around: your co uses Salesforce, so Slack is your chat software, not “let’s buy and integrate this gigantic and expensive do-everything system because chatting in Slack is cool.”
@jean That’s fun! By the way, I just listened to The Incomparable 2022 faves show, and your mention of Dune reminded sent me down the pleasant rabbit hole of re-listening to the Dune episode, plus Joe and Dan’s discussion of it on Defocused.
As a bit of a Dune nerd, it’s fun to hear others’ impressions!
@cheribaker Very cool! Are you narrating your own fiction?
@benwerd I love Maggie’s writing and her website. 😍
@manton I’ve meant to get into Sanderson for ages, and at this point his library is practically intimidating! 😂
Where would you recommend an epic fantasy fan start? Way of Kings?
@benwerd Ben, this is such a great essay, and many of the things you shared — especially around “helplessness” — resonate with me.
I was going to pull a quotation, then realized I’d have to highlight ⅔ of the essay!
Thanks for sharing, and I hope you’ve got a wonderful year ahead of you.
@patrickrhone Finding a lovingly-crafted app made by a small team (or a solo dev) is such a treat.
If anything, I wish I had to pay for it!
@jsonbecker Nope, I don’t have Apple News set up; that link just redirects to biz insider. But thank you! I appreciate the effort.
@jsonbecker Alas, that site doorslams so hard I can’t even read the entire headline of that article before getting told to subscribe. 🙃
@cheribaker Hear, hear! I’ve started using Libro.fm to buy audiobooks — they let you direct part of your payment to a physical book store of your choice!
@jsonbecker What sort are you after? Fiction? Non-fiction? Genre? 🤓
@antonyjohnston Oh man, did John step down as CEO already? 😔
@timbray I love the winter wonderland out here… though if you require a car to get around, it’s a terror. 🥶