🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco

But the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year.

For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’.

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.

Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal

Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.

Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs

Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.

“I dunno” - wrote Alan

With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com

I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.

Never heard of it until now.

Subscribed.

Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.

Spending more time looking at Feedland as I seek to work towards a better way of managing my canonical OPML for all feeds …

I know that I am definitely not the only reader of people like Gruber and Ben … but according to Feedland .. nobody else is subscribed to them.I wonder what gives❓

Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.

I notice that it’s the women who he’s firing first.