Although I am not by any stretch of the imagination a developer, there are bits of what developers do that I appreciate. One of those is version control. On texts, at least, I no longer keep interminable backup versions of different states. I've been using Git to keep track of versions for me, and s...

There’s more ➢

I've been spending a little time (after a very busy period) bringing some more of the old stuff over here to the new shiny. Looking at posts from 12 years ago -- how time flies -- is bittersweet, but I'm not here to dwell. I'm here to point to a glorious piece from Paul Ford, which I'm very happy...

There’s more ➢

My online friend Jason roped me into doing a two white dudes chatting podcast (with a difference) and I'm really enjoying it. ¹ The show is called Why Can't We ... ? and, as I say, I'm enjoying doing it immensely.

Now, you may consider that first paragraph marketing. The funny thing is, it also plays directly into our third episode: Podcast Directories. Why can't we get better recommendations of new (to us) podcasts to listen to?

There’s more ➢

Instapaper has been a life saver for me. ¹ It offers me several pleasures. I don't have to wade through horrible, garish web pages to get to words I am interested in. There is almost always something to read on my phone in the event of an emergency. It stores what I've saved and makes it easy to annotate and share.

As I say, a life saver.

There’s more ➢

Publishing to this site from more than one machine had been a bit daunting. Not so.¹ All I had to do was add MAMP and the Github desktop client to this here MBA and everything seems to be hunky dory. I'm going to backdate this post, though, so it doesn't linger on the home page.

So, no excuses ....

There’s more ➢