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A 2-pixel tall pixel font. (!)

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak. You can read it here:

The primitive tortureboard

Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

What was the worst connector ever made? I know some people hate on the Apple 30-pin connector, but I always had a soft spot for it. SCART, on the other hand – what a nightmare. I still sometimes remember how utterly unpleasant it was just to put it in or disconnect it. The sound and the feel were all dentist-office-grade. Absolutely dreadful.

@npub1gvje...3r2z More of a permanent link:

Hypertalking Mac collection

A photo essay of checking out a cool Apple Macintosh collection

Hope the move went okay!

It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have any idea why an app is asking, what should I say, what is the penalty for choosing Don’t Allow, etc. What a frustrating experience. (Edit: I’m showing Chrome here but I am getting them for so many other apps without seemingly any rhyme or reason.)

Art from the just-opened new L stations in Chicago.

This is good writing.

Techdirt

Fascism For First Time Founders

Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to b...

A few people reminded me recently how ten years ago I translated into English a short (sci-fi-ish) 1976 story from my favourite writer, Stanisław Lem. Lem’s stuff continues to be wildly prescient, and I feel like that story has even more relevance today than it did in 2015. I just moved the story from Medium to my site for a nicer reading experience, if you want to give it a shot!

One hundred and thirty-seven seconds

A translation of Stanisław Lem’s 1976 story