When I say, oh you can’t use this, I’ve specifically tailored this to my needs, what I mean, is that this is a giant pile of hacks, most pretty insecure, that I dare not let loose in the wild.
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How to support your favourite authors—even if you can’t buy their books, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
https://suyidavies.com/essays/support-authors
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Tried the new #Reeder for #RSS. It’s definitely not for me.
It does not work with my #Miniflux instance and does too much “magic”
Been a happy user for more than a decade and a half now and I’m a bit saddened that Silvio’s vision for how an RSS app should be, has diverged from mine.
Wished Silvio had just enabled subscriptions in #ReederClassic, so I could continue to pay him, annually.
So where does that leave me, now that one of my core reading experiences is undergoing upheaval? With a certain sense of unease for now, that is all.
#ReederClassic still exists and I hope there will be enough people like me, who’d love to pay @rizzi to keep working on ye olde classic.
I worry about an amazing app like this vanishing.
None of this is to say that the new app is bad. It’s classic Silvio.
I’m assuming an enormous amount of time and effort must have gone into accomplishing all that he has done.
It’s beautiful, polished and amazing. Just sadly not for me :)
Go try it 1 and if it fits your mental model, then there can be no better app, than a Silvio Rizzi creation
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#reeder, #rss, #miniflux, #ReederClassic
is there any Indian site online, that has signed copies of the new William Dalrymple book, The Golden Road? Shipping it in from abroad is prohibitively expensive for me.
Please boost for reach.
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When Cabanel finally graduated and returned to Paris as a professional painter, he had already received nearly *sixteen years* of focused, intense education on art and art alone.
I’d kill for that. Or, at least sacrifice a goat for it.
You can graduate from medical school and be operating on patients in less time than that artist studied how to paint that angel.
— @ColleenDoran
( in her latest, The Education of an Artist
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-education-of-an-artist )
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#TIL about --inplace with #rsync. (I’m copying close to a tb of data disk to disk on a local machine)
Goodness gracious what a difference in speed!
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and Bengal’s never looked prettier!
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imagine a fantastic #SherlockHolmes adaption in my own backyard!
#ShekharHome is a fantastically rooted, fun, ride.
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saw #LaalKaptaan. again. nothing will ever capture the Indian Hinterland like this movie did.
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RIP Mike! Thanks to you, I was able to see the clusterfuck that was the CPQ/HP merger and realise that I was for the chopping block, much before others could. I could then leave on my own terms and then had the margin to go set up my own consultancy.
Thank you for all the news you broke, but even more for being such a joyful, wonderful wordsmith.
One good example of the clout Mike had was summed up in a conversation I had with him and an Intel VP who shall remain nameless during an IDF in China. He casually mentioned that The Inq was the first thing he read when he woke up. With a good degree of snark I asked, “Before or after you take a leak?”. “Before”. He was serious.
Those days are unlikely to return but they were pretty amazing to live through and it is all because of what Mike Magee created. Much to the relief of many execs in the industry, there will never be another like him.
— Charlie Demerjian
https://semiaccurate.com/2024/08/12/industry-pioneer-mike-magee-has-passed-away/
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