Marcin Wichary

These look great.

Thanks!!!

Yeah, exactly. It’s somewhere down on my list! The work never ends.

The author seems like a nice guy! We exchanged a few notes.

BTW I intentionally started with Montaigne even though its styling is pretty minimal – wanted to develop a habit of posting for a few months and seeing how it feels before I “launch” and develop custom tooling. This was another 180 from how I usually do things.

I am on DreamHost now, but I wonder if I should branch out. I see it struggle weirdly sometimes.

Trying to pick one battle at a time haha

Yeah, that’s more or less what I’m doing now. I am wondering if it might be interesting to synthesize an animated GIF/AVIF thumbnail with a few frames, but I understand it’s not possible to embed it in the email.

I love chaining little tools like curl, ffmpeg, imagemagick etc. to do image thumbnails, grab data, etc.

How can I play

Whoa! That’s really cool. So the data is there actually!!!!!

Videos have been a big pain so far. I don’t know how to output them well in the weekly newsletter (ran via Buttondown), and even on the web they seem to burn some browsers. But I really wanted to try not to add too much JavaScript to Unsung – another self-imposed constraint.

The whole thing is very retro in many ways (intentionally or not).

I mostly wanted to try something different after like ~30 years of authoring in raw HTML.

That’s the same author as Montaigne, so probably related!

And I literally sync static files to the server (in a very dumb way right now).

Inside Notes, now I also have my own little silly markup on top, like:
[images side by side]
[use next image as thumbnail]
[next video is retina]

etc.

I just keep improving it bit by bit over time.

↑ Yep, thanks! Also explored Quotion in between, which is similar to Montaigne (also syncs from Apple Notes using a shared folder), but its style was too corporate to me.

Also, I realized that I actually don’t need to do complex sync via shared notes, so my Notes are all just processed locally.

You just know he’s jerking off at home practicing these lines.

Internecine.
Diegetic.
Vis-à-vis (in preposition form).

I haven’t heard of them until last month! But Apple II basically didn’t exist in Poland.

“Our programs are fun to use.” – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

little post about Beagle Bros, perhaps the most fun 1980s software company. unsung.aresluna.org/our-programs...

Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further. The 1999 Toyota Corolla. Let's talk about features. Bluetooth: nope Sunroof: nope Fancy wheels: nope Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn. Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End. You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up. This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children. Things this car is old enough to do: Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes Rent a car: it IS a car This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would. Interesting facts: This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey. In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional." When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey. Favorite food: spaghetti Favorite tv show: Alf Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine." Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla. Google map of cars location

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

This is so good.

Yeah, I think this is fair, especially as Karabiner messes up function keys by default, I think.

Making your external keyboard support Fn key Mapping any key except Fn (e.g. Caps Lock) on your external keyboard to be the Fn/Globe key Install Karabiner Elements. Add an entry to Simple Modifications, from: Modifier keys > caps_lock to: Modi...

I just wrote this quick doc. Does this help? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If not, I’d be curious what makes it tricky in your case.

A very good use of Gorton.

I’m writing an essay about Fn (and Globe) keys on the keyboard. If there’s anything on your mind: any questions you have, or any trivia/interesting things you know of, or any personal experiences, please let me know! 🙏

(I mean I probably do it, but I’m funny! And most people are not.)

Oh my god, this

Also, a valid political response could also be “the person who championed it left Apple.”

Even if so, doesn’t feel necessary to do it in advance?