So I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use a program called newsboat as my primary way to access the internet. I use it to: Subscribe to all the blogs I love to read Subscribe to all the Subreddits that I like to see Subscribe to all the podcasts that I like to listen to (although Castero is good for this too) Subscribe to all the Youtube channels I love to view ...
The Old web was better I hear a persistent complaint levied by people who have been using computers since Dial-up was a thing. (psssst… kids… Dial-up was an old technology where you gave your computer a phone and it would scream at another computer over the phone in some weird machine language. If you picked up the phone, you could hear them talking.) You can see this argument on: Reddit ...
What’s the Deal with Data? If you read my post on the best tech video ever, you will know that I will always prefer plaintext files over pretty much every other format. In that article I explain how the simplicity of plaintext and the flexibility of unix tools make text not only easier to work with, but remarkably powerful, and un-killable if you know how to use git. The problem with text is that there is a kind of limit to what it can be used for without adding more abstraction to it. Let’s say you want structured data, similar to the kind you might find in a spreadsheet. You’ll run into an issue with plaintext because it doesn’t force a structure itself. It’s freedom becomes a vice in that context. You’ll have the freedom to mess up the data. ...