[Batman transition]
Hours later…

@jsatk just now getting around to the rest of the 1996 record; thank you again for the rec!

I’ll stop, I’ll stop. Look, you can read.

“In a world of Web-based applications, there is no automatic place for Microsoft. They may succeed in making themselves a place, but I don't think they'll dominate this new world as they did the world of desktop applications.

“It's not so much that a competitor will trip them up as that they […]

“My guess is that Microsoft will develop some kind of server/desktop hybrid, where the operating system works together with servers they control. At a minimum, files will be centrally available for users who want that. I don't expect Microsoft to go all the way to the extreme of doing the […]

Plus ça change, etc.

(Ben is, in fact, very smart, and his blog is worth reading.)

It’s sort of fun, for me, to hear Microsoft veterans assure everyone that *of course* they knew they were shipping lower-quality product. *Of course*, it was a *strategy* you guys. https://benbob.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-operating-systems-8f3ffd4f972e

Anyway, so until I resume and finish this project, currently the only way to heat my home involves picking up a telephone extension and yelling “Siri, turn on the FIRE.” Which is asinine, but I did this to myself.

All fun and games ’til you come home and it’s 61° inside and you’re frantically trying to remember why you wrote an automation the way you did a year in the past, and didn’t document it anywhere, stupid stupid stupid.

Last winter, I got carried away with Apple Home and devised too-clever ways to control the baseboard heaters and fireplace—China will sell you some extremely dodgy PLCs, cheap! But then I had an attack of sanity, concluded I didn’t want “IOT” and “open flame” appearing in the same paragraph, and […]

Safer, though. Android phones are safer. https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-phone-thieves-prefer-android-iphone-l

@jsatk 🥰

@jsatk Oh wow, I love this

With houseplants, almost every problem stands exactly 50–50 probability that it’s being
• underwatered
• overwatered

It seems to be similar with running injuries, where the two possible remedies are
• stop running immediately or you’ll hurt yourself
• run on it—active recovery, bro!

Choose wisely!

@skinnylatte I love the shit out of this story, omg

Give me liberty, or give it to me, daddy.

Also, show me the backstory of Patrick Henry’s portraitist. Like, did they bang before his sitting or after?, or both?