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 thank you for including the option to disable Fade In access, that's a huge one for me!
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
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.
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
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?
(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
(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)
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
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!
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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
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."
The panopticon.
I will be selling panopticon hammers.
I will be selling panopticon hammers.
May 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The panopticon.
I will be selling panopticon hammers.
I will be selling panopticon hammers.
There are three things at minimum that would need to change IMO
- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected
- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected
April 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There are three things at minimum that would need to change IMO
- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected
- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected
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
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.
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
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?
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
So, for example, capital has somewhere else to flow in search of returns, which it didn't the last time.
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
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.
- someone still wearing a straw hat, shorts and flip-flops when it's snowing outside
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
- someone still wearing a straw hat, shorts and flip-flops when it's snowing outside
oh shit that one's real
April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
oh shit that one's real