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Manuel Moreale thinking about the differences between hobbies and side projects: > A hobby is something one does for themselves. This blog is a hobby. I write on it because I find it enjoyable and the primary user is myself. And since it’s a hobby, money is not taken

Matt Birchler is an expert on payments, so when he writes about them, you listen: > I can’t see the future, and I don’t work directly in card issuance, but this is my very strong instinct. They want to win the payment volume game, and you don’t

Jared Henderson in a recent ParkNotes video on Commonplace Books (cleaned up by me): > I think that people found it refreshing to just be like oh I could just do this in a notebook and there's not like a system .. basically just a repository where I just

Colin Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic about why they Why I Hate Instagram Now Meta, Instagram’s parent company, still says its mission is giving people “the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” As it thwarts my efforts to see all the photos posted by people

Kev Quirk writing in Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air > Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version

Zach Seward being clear that AI is not like you and me: > Aristotle, who had a few things to say about human nature, once declared, "The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor," but academics studying the personification of tech have long observed

Karissa Bell for Engadget: > Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of that is particularly new, as the Meta founder has been feuding with Apple for years. But then Zuckerberg, who is usually quite controlled in his

John Gruber joining two unconnected things together and predictably developing from it a pro apple stance (via Birchtree): > But the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption. The only new messaging platforms that should gain any traction are those that not only support

Jason Kratz <a href="https://notebook.jasonkratz.me/photos-should-be-whatever-you-want/" class="u-in-reply-to">replying to</a> my earlier post on <a href="https://gregmorris.co.uk/2024/07/01/instagram-ruined-all.html">Instagram and photography</a>: > The implication

Reysu in the video How to absorb books like a sponge and read 2x faster: > One of the most valuable things you can do with your free time is reading books. They not only contain a huge depth of information, but just a single idea in a book has