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Hey, so tomorrow my aortic valve is being replaced. I’m excited! The odds are very low anything will go wrong. However, I do want to say how much I have appreciated getting to know so many of you, and how it’s enriched my life. Thank you. Stating it means that I’ll be around to be embarassed later.

Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons. First, I am so grateful for the friendships and collegial connections formed here. In the unlikely event that something goes wrong, I wanted to say thank you. Second, of course, is the sad issue of money and American healthcare and disability support.

My convoluted path to streaming Jeopardy! to my child in London.

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Solution to a “Jeopardy!” streaming conundrum: What is Tailscale?

It is perhaps not surprising that my spouse and I raised a Jeopardy! fan. Our older child, halfway through college, not only loves the show but has...

@npub1kyyr...8sng Really, an excuse to talk about Jeopardy! streaming rights, NAT traversal, and Tailscale, my favorite new company/product of the last few years for solving a particularly irritating problem with such aplomb and elan.

AOL is shutting down dial-up. I wrote an article for The Economist, “The slow death of dial-up”—in 2007! 📄.pdf I think the “slow” part was correct.

Fresh from the press, my new book, Six Centuries of Type & Printing: a brisk and thorough history of how we put ink on paper! It’s a cloth-bound hardcover and comes with an expanded ebook. You can add letterpress bookmarks or an audiobook, or just buy the ebook or audiobook!

Six Centuries of Type & Printing: Book, Ebook, and Audiobook

Apple doesn’t let you access iCloud storage using third-party sync or backup tools. How do you handle creating your own backup of iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos? Some thoughts @npub1kyyr...8sng in my “Help Me, Glenn!” column:

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How to back up iCloud Drive and Photos

Cloud synchronization makes it easy to have a copy of your stuff everywhere, and, through optimization, to avoid filling your local storage with yo...

Women typesetting in Germany in 1894 (illustration). Caption reads (translated from German): “A modern profession for women—typesetter. Original drawing by Colanus.” Just acquired an original printed version of this after seeing various lower-res versions online.

My book Six Centuries of Type & Printing is on track to ship late this month. You can still pledge and get all the stretch-goal extras for a few days longer: an audiobook, an extra ebook, and (for print books) letterpress-printed bookmarks! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-of-type-and-printing After that, a la carte.