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@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@hachyderm.io 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@mastodon.social 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@mastodon.social 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@writing.exchange 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@writing.exchange 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@mastodon.social Oh man, did John step down as CEO already? 😔

@timbray@hachyderm.io I love the winter wonderland out here… though if you require a car to get around, it’s a terror. 🥶

@jasonekratz @pimoore It’s always nice to get a more positive perspective on something I take for granted, cheers. 😁

I’ll say this: when I was kicking around doing nothing after graduating university and one of my best friends would get off their security-guard shift at 1 AM, Tim’s did provide an important staging ground for many a “What the hell are we doing with our lives?” conversation.

@marcoarment@mastodon.social Bring the inanity! 👏🏼🤩

@chipotle Hey, it was good enough for Twitt—oh. 🫢

@Miraz @jsonbecker I feel like this word is on the tip of my Dad’s tongue. 😄

@bsag That keyboard is so cool! Between your blog and @mattgemmell’s, I am getting dangerously close to trying to build my own tiny keyboard. 😋🤓

@jasonekratz @pimoore It’s less that Tim’s coffee is designed to go with their doughnuts as that both of them are designed to go with the experience of being a long-haul trucker or EMT who desperately needs a cheap source of sugar and caffeine at 11:45 PM. 😂