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is it weird they're running TV commercial with Jony Ive even though the product doesn't exist yet?

We have some old devices laying around: iPod, digital camera, CD player... My young daughter loves them. I think we forget how magical an ipod can be. Also, a number of families ha…

Check out https://ocapn.org/ https://www.spritely.institute/ https://files.spritely.institute/papers/spritely-core.html

I like utility classes, but not tailwind. It's predecessor, Tachyons is small, simple, and all I've ever needed. https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/

Maybe an acquired taste, but I'm fond of Intel One Mono ... https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono designed for low-vision developers.

Just want to plug: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann I taught my daughter to read at 3. Amazing book.

Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" is a ridiculously fun book. Very short, and stuffed with melodrama. My copy has an excellent introduction to Gothic architecture, literatur…

Affinity is amazing. It's like the old Photoshop you remember, before it became totally over-bloated.

She was 5. Most kids in the US start first grade about 6.

"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is an amazing book. I taught my daughter to read before kindergarten. It works.

I write F# on Linux with both Emacs and VS Code. Works really well. LSP, Iodine, Fantomas greatly improve the IDE experience.

I have Thucydides and Herodotus, both are amazing. I don't know how I would read Thucydides any other way. There are so many place names and directions, you really need the maps th…

Learn Elisp the Easy Way: M-x info "Emacs Lisp Intro"

With the rise of online streaming and satellite radio, plus the demise of physical record shops, magazines, MTV, and local radio, everything is way more fragmented. The 80s & 90s w…

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs taught us the importance of Slack years ago.

When I was a teenager, my music teacher always had a copy of the Real Book around. I went to a local music store and was looking through their music books when one of the employees…

I'm not sure the circus ring finale works on its own. It's the denouement of the whole film that has been building to this point. Mastroianni is struggling with all his relationshi…

Check out Wilson "snowflake" Bentley, he was photographing snowflakes at the turn of the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley

If you're already doing C#, then it's easy to start using F#. You probably are using VS Studio/Code, you already know the standard .NET libraries. etc.. F# is a little weird becaus…