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    Copy down verbatim quotes, when you feel like it… I’ve shifted away from the dogma that “real” engagement means you must always summarise or restate things in your own words. If copying was good enough for history’s countless keepers of commonplace books, it’s sometimes good enough for me.

    The Imperfectionist

    There are exactly three potential outcomes for That Technology Thing You Like:

    1. It will be changed in ways that you don’t like by the person or company that owns or runs it.
    2. It will be sold to someone else and they will change it in ways that you don’t like.
    3. It will be discontinued. There are no other options. Prepare accordingly.

    Pete Brown, Exploding Comma

    On link management

    Oh boy, what a rabbit hole we could go down here. Right now, my read-later links go to Pocket. My watch-later links go to Play. My listen-later links go to MusicBox. My reference-later links go to Raindrop. My write-later links go to Drafts. And my ‘Take a Chance’ links go to GoodLinks.

    John Voorhees

    On Friday, it’s National Pizza Day. Or, as some bosses call it around the office, Please Don’t Unionize Day.

    Morning Brew Newsletter

    I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the Sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

    • Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant

    Google just killed cached pages

    Whenever Google crawled a web page, the company would take and store a snapshot, giving users an archived view. The feature acted as backup, allowing you to load a website in the event it was down. In addition, it made it easy to compare and see if any changes had been made to a web page.

    PC Mag

    Something big is being announced by the Browser Company today #Arc = just got an email full of promises:

    • Our belief in a new category of software
    • 4 new features that hint at the next chapter for Arc
    • And what we mean by a browser that browses for you

    To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them.

    THE RISE OF TECHNO-AUTHORITARIANISM, The Atlantic

    If you don’t harbour a deep-seated, conflicted, fundamental resentment for tech, well… you’re probably not a very dedicated geek.

    Matt Gemmell

    Maybe your picture of a sunset looks basically (or even exactly) the same as a thousand other peoples' photos of sunsets, but the journey you took to get to the place where you took that photo is not the same as that taken by all those other photographers. You met different people along the way, you felt different emotions, you learned different things. That is what makes you unique.

    Pete Brown Exploding Comma

    We build these crazy contraptions using fifty different sets of mismatched tools, connect them all together with chewing gum and twine, and then pile billions of bits of junk on top of them. Of course, none of it is going to work properly. TBH most of the time I’m surprised any of it even works at all.

    Pete Brown in Exploding Comma

    32-Bit Cafe - Website Ideas You’ve just made a website, but now you’re unsure where to go from here. Here are some ideas for things to add and techniques to earn. It’s a good list.

    Courtey of Jack Baty.

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