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John Brownlow
@johnbrownlow.bsky.social
Screenwriter, author, knowitall, dilettante. AGENT SEVENTEEN won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of 2022, soon to be a major movie. ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN out now. Tech, math, photography, music. Fan of bicycles and guillotines.
ps thank you for including the option to disable Fade In access, that's a huge one for me!
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
ps on Mac upgrading from 5.0.0 beta in the app doesn't work. It downloads but doesn't install. I had to go to the download page.
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Does the solve the problem that when you have multiple unsaved document you get stacked dialogs and no indication of which document is being saved?
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
(I have a longstanding cloud solution for all my writing projects and apps so the Fade In feature is not relevant to me... when I press cmd-O I just want to see (and expect to see) the Finder dialog)
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A big one for me is that fact that opening a document now takes an extra very irritating click to specify that it's 'on my mac' when I don't use anything else. Otherwise, great work!
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by John Brownlow
My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."
June 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The panopticon.

I will be selling panopticon hammers.
May 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
That was Claude. And ChatGPT...

chatgpt.com/share/681a61...
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May 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There are three things at minimum that would need to change IMO

- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected
April 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
And the second-order problem is that even if the next admin is relatively sane (deus volens) the US system has shown that it's vulnerable to capture. This is a huge systemic constitutional problem which it's bafflingly hard to see how the three branches / states could go about solving.
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Applications to Canadian universities are through the roof (but there's also a big foreign student scandal at the moment so that's friction). But you're exactly right -- why would anyone make new investments in the US at the moment when there's no way to plan ahead?
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So, for example, capital has somewhere else to flow in search of returns, which it didn't the last time.
April 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Plus unlike the last time where it was a global phenomenon, this time it's, if not exactly local, then epicentred on the US. The extrinsic supply lines outside the US are working fine.
April 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
- someone still wearing a straw hat, shorts and flip-flops when it's snowing outside
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
oh shit that one's real
April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM