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Yes but going really far down that path has given us sterilized UIs that have no character and no personality. Every website and app looks more or less the same. I, for one, enjoy …

That physical books age and retain pieces of their history is one of my favourite things about them. I found a used book that was given to someone when he graduated top of his clas…

Mortimer Adler (of how to read a book fame) has notes on this https://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/rcunningham/2022-23... MAny a times, the books I read don't have enough place…

This reminded me of an old DOS game I used to play called Castle Adventure. I'd almost forgotten about it. Apparently, the original programmer was just 14 when he made it and the s…

Can't argue there. The first time I visited the US, I bought expensive calligraphy paper. I brought it back home to India and saved it for when I would be "Good enough" and practic…

You remind me of Nigel Tufnel of the Spinal Tap rockumentary fame and his guitar collection. The clip on Youtube is a must watch if you're not seen it.

I'm probably missing something here but if I have to worry about getting an expensive watch that calls it "Submariner" wet of all things, at the very least, it's badly named.

I did this with my first (and only Macbook) in 2014. Did it with a pocket file. I never thought about blogging about it though. Perhaps something to consider.

I was building an in-house infra management platform (including a self hosted AI agent) for companies in a segment that's very careful about its internal IP. I spoke to the CTO of …

Surely I can't be the only one who misread the heading and clicked expecting to see DOOM implemented using just HTML DOM. :-/

A lisp interpreter with text editing primitives.

There are many things you can do to get it out of your family's life. No phones in the bedroom, No phones after X O'clock, Open conversations about social media with your kids, Uni…

Ah. This is something I'm not familiar with. This is the Pen Hospital I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2a_yKeCS7M

I don't know if that's the same. There's another here called Kim and Co. which makes ebonite pens without fillers. They became popular via. social media and a lot of people ordered…

That's an exaggeration. Things are not as repairable as they used to be and people are not as thrifty as they used to be. However, I do think the culture of repairing things is str…

I'm glad fountain pens came up here. There's a shop a few hours away from where I stay in an old town in India called the "Pen Hospital". It was a thriving business in the 60s when…

Probably not but it's hard to really pin this down. On the one hand, China's rise has in the recent past has been phenomenal but that kind of rapid cleanup has always been accompan…

I wonder how much of this is informed opinion vs. reflexive kickback due to a threat to ones livelihood.

I've had success with Aider from October of 2025 (from my git logs). I have to differ from the general sentiment over here. The tools and models are good enough to make a change in…

I was creating a scene by scene remake of a cutscene from an old DOS game. The sprite sheet had several sprites which were cycled (e.g. a horse with it's head down and up). The eng…

Yes I know but it's not always that straightforward and my muscle memory from western hands interferes.

Yup. I practice western calligraphy but haven't been able to make much inroads into Arabic. Partly because of the lack of high quality instruction material (which is available as b…

In a certain way, moving from "Free Software" to "Open Source" started this transition and it's not slowing down.

I was just going to say the same thing. I couldn't afford the rigs needed to run any of these games and never really played them. Now, it's running inside a browser on a laptop.