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The Big Dig and Scratch & Win

A few of this year's highlights for me and my notes on the books, where available. Fiction - Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/2ab2…

I’m a little bit embarrassed to share it at this point, but I’m developing an application, called Biblish, that is meant to offer small utilities that augment the process of readin…

Vercel after moving away from Docker containers running on AWS.

I’ve been working on a note taking app specifically for literature where the idea is that small groups of writers will come across one another’s notes while they’re reading the sam…

It would be great if you could find the machine that is closest to 2 or more different locations, like if I want to challenge several friends across the country to post our high sc…

Can you recommend any books on this subject specifically?

I've been doing research into the high-rise housing projects in Chicago. One of the things I'm curious about when it comes to advocacy for more housing and to have that housing be …

Maybe we should mandate that plastics are manufactured with an off taste, similar to the way gas has a sulfur smell added to it.

Yeah, I wish not only self-publishing one’s own work, it also creating a small journal for publishing other writers was the first instinct of young writers, especially young writer…

A reading habit, past a certain point, is self-propagating, in my experience. Based on conversation, explicit reference in other texts, and a general sixth-sense of what books to r…

Papertrail is a service for taking digital notes for books you read in print in a way that is accessible, sharable, and optionally public-facing. It operates a smidgen like a forum…

I can’t understand this perspective. Why? What’s one guy being fired going to mean in the grand scheme of ai’s development?

These estimates seem weighted toward the reality that books are simply not read, and it is a meta-rationale, like the book's relevance to some theme that is perpetually bandied abo…

Hopefully I find this again in my bookmarks when I am 50+, looks like an awesome thing to try one's hand at.

I'm opening a coffeeshop in Chicago and do not plan on accepting cash, just seems easier and safer to me.

I have the same negative perception of AirBnBs in New York. I think the city also encourages hustler types, or people that are plugged in with local polls, who get away with everyt…

One of the reasons literary fiction is becoming a lost art, I think, is due to how difficult it is to write about fiction. That difficulty extends to the discussion of fiction. I'm…

The unrealistic character, running an illogical operation, comes to an obvious ending; point Shakespeare. I didn't realize Michael Lewis also wrote The Blind Side, which seems like…