Have added Craft to my other writing apps that are (in no particular order)
- Drafts
- Bear
- iAWriter
- Ulysses
- TextMate
- Notes
- Pages
Two more and I’ll be in double figures.
It’s official. I am diseased.
The Difference Between What You Have And What You Dream.
Writing show notes for a podcast, this advice popped up;
”Show notes will get indexed … but like all copy … HOW you write those notes will be what really affects the SEO.”
So I have to write my notes so some algorithm can decide where I fit in the rankings.
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
It seems that ‘audio watermarking’ is a thing.
The End of Private Equity Is Coming.
I know not the truth of this claim - but couldn’t be better news for humanity.
”The platform uses artificial intelligence to scan millions of job ads, collecting and crunching ‘language performance data’ so that users ‘can stop guessing at what makes good writing.’”
… so users can stop guessing at what makes good writing.
users? guessing?
”The problem is not that testing is the bottleneck. The problem is that you don’t know what’s in the bottle. That’s a problem that testing addresses.”
Michael Bolton, author, “Rapid Software Testing.”
Performance Testing with K6 (Gigaom).
”The word ‘ageing’ does not mean ‘old’ or older. It is an adjective which refers to time passing, and the effect of that time passing on the noun it describes for the duration of that noun remaining in existence.
”The last couple of years has seen a slight resurgence in the personal blog and I hope 2021 continues that trend!”
Chris Bowler
Amen
“We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino can.”
Gelsinger - new CEO of Intel
via @gruber and may not be exactly what he said - and there is no context - but still funny.
”Here we stand looking out in the great mall where Dr. King spoke of his dream. Here we stand, where 108 years ago, at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we marked the swearing in of the first woman in American history elected to national office: Vice President Kamala Harris. Don’t tell me things can’t change.”
Biden
Well … yes … but seriously one hundred and eight years!
How Lithuanians Conquered the World: The Case for a Migration Museum
… now there’s an interesting read.
I think that a ‘few’ ‘giant’ ‘free’ services are at the tail end of life .. opening up to ‘many’ ‘focussed’ ‘paid’ services …
The guy that built the Google Ad business over google search thinks so.
How about you?
A Newsletter On And About Substack - It’s The End Of An Era.
What do you think?
Historically been lots of back and forth as to whether you own your work on Micro Blog. I am in the camp that I can pull my stuff anytime i like in a way that easily allows me to use it somewhere else if i so choose, so yes - I own it …. others see it different …. in a lot of way - semantics …
Interesting to read this from Craft today …
”With the work around Craft Connect, our goal is to ensure you have full, practical ownership of your data and support you in connecting your thoughts and work across multiple products. While we have many file-based export options available, file-based workflows still make it challenging to easily port data between apps - meaning that while you do have technical ownership, this doesn’t always translate to practical ownership.
‘Technical’ v ‘Practical’ ownership.
Which side do you fall on?
#thenandnow #differences #peoplefirst #debate #dialogue
Medium … I have been using it so little that last years announcements brushed right past me :
Has anybody frilled into all of this properly? Gone back? Stayed away?
What’s the consensus?
Always helps to have a daddy in high places
”New York man charged in Capitol riot bails out as attorney says he was ‘not part of the mob’”
Repeat after me ….
‘They’ are
NOT
‘elites’.