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Review: I Write Like I recently stumbled across a writing tool, which has somewhat changed the way I write — for the better. I Write Like is a web based app, describing itself...

This informative and captivating review of I Write Like came as a surprise.

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Link: calcish.com

Calcish screenshot

I've released Calcish 1.5 (JavaScript-based programmable calculator + notebook). Here's what's new:

- Updated remote modes to latest GPTs, Geminis, added DeepSeek, Claude via OpenRouter
- Updated Calcish Mono.
- Fixed bugs

I've decided to ignore Liquid Glass for now, so it continues to look nice.

A vintage Italian advertisement poster for Olivetti typewriters. The central figure is a stern-looking man dressed in a traditional red medieval scholar's robe and a matching chaperon hat, bearing a strong resemblance to the poet Dante Alighieri. He stands behind a large, black mechanical typewriter resting on a yellow surface, pointing his index finger downward toward the machine. Behind him is a stylized landscape featuring jagged grey mountain peaks under a pale blue sky with white, flowing cloud formations. At the bottom, bold black text on a cream background reads: "PRIMA FABBRICA ITALIANA MACCHINE PER SCRIVERE ING. C. OLIVETTI E C. IVREA." The artist's signature, "Teodoro Wolf Ferrari," is visible in the lower right of the illustration.

A poster for Olivetti typewriters from 1912.

Original objectives and non-objectives of the WWW.

"data will be either readable by the world (literally), or will be readable only on one file system, in which case the file system's protection system will be used for privacy. All network traffic will be public"

www.w3.org/Proposal.html

.roboto-flex-univers { font-family: "Roboto Flex", sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: none; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.5; /* adjust to your taste */ font-variation-settings: "slnt" 0, "wdth" 108, "GRAD" -23, "XTRA" 450, "XOPQ" 105, "YOPQ" 73, "YTDE" -200, "YTFI" 710, "YTLC" 501, "YTUC" 712, "YTAS" 700 }

Poor man's Univers

A post on how I implemented typewriter sounds.

This is such an awesome new feature on I Write Like! I hate rewriting my numbers, and quotes used to be a separate stalling distraction. Not anymore!
Try it here: iwl.me/transform

#editing #writing #text

A four-panel image showcasing a writing app called "A Case of Identity" available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Panel 1: Smarter writing - Focus on writing, then analyze, polish & perfect. Shows the app's main tools: Style analyzer, Markdown preview, Word count, Readability, and Edit with AI. Panel 2: Analyze your writing - Check which famous writer you write like with the iconic "I Write Like" style analyzer. Shows a screen where the analysis suggests the user writes like "Arthur Conan Doyle." Panel 3: Writer's Toolbox - The only writing app that gives you insight into your writing. Lists features like Keywords, Style analyzer, Sentence rank, Word frequency, Word count, Read aloud, Dictionary, Goals, Readability, Edit with AI, Preview, Links, Outline, Comments, and Export. Panel 4: Go all-in on Markdown - Live preview with themes. Export to Word, PDF or HTML. Shows a document titled "The Role of Urban Parks in Modern City Planning" with key insights and options for Markdown preview, Themes (Serif, Sans, Mono), and Synchronize scrolling.

New versions of our I Write Like for Mac, iPhone and iPad are now available on the App Store.
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Touching a CRT TV felt good, warm and fuzzy!

Ad for bicycle tires featuring a cartoon line drawing of a man riding a bicycle; within the lines are people of all shapes and sizes, in the colors purple, green, blue, yellow, orange, and brown.

Pirelli
"for all bicycle tires"
1960
Artist: Riccardo Manzi

BTW, everyone should design interfaces in TextEdit, not Figma.

Horizontal buttons/links are superior to vertical: they use less space (if they fit on one line) because they don't need padding between them for clickability.

Closest Named Color

Link: dchest.github.io/named-colors/

This is a game changer in the named color technology! 🌈

With CSS5 color-mix() function, you can get a closer match to any sRGB color you want using only named colors.

Compare this beauty:
DarkSalmon 50%, BlanchedAlmond

to this modern horror:
oklch(0.8052 0.0723 48.25)

I still don't get why web devs use custom JS-based tooltips. Stick title="Tooltip text" into any element and it will show the native tooltip, after a proper timeout.

Let's see what happens when your writing goal is reached in I Write Like.

#WritingCommunity #WriteLife #Writing

A screenshot of I Write Like text editor showing the text of the message edited via one of the tools of the editor that make all adverbs look like they are oozing red paint on the screen.

I Write Like is the place to write with no distractions. Or to distract yourself in a creative way, by comparing your writing to famous authors, or by cutting adverbs out, quite literally.

The Web is the platform you are looking for. Pass it on.

We've been using Ed25519 in browsers for over 10 years now (every identity and writer is an Ed25519 pair in Peergos), so we really appreciate this and how much work it has been. The size of nacl.js is 30KB so not a significant benefit, but the web-crypto version is 10x faster!

GitHub - dchest/mlkem-wasm: ML-KEM in WebAssembly ML-KEM in WebAssembly. Contribute to dchest/mlkem-wasm development by creating an account on GitHub.

WebCrypto API doesn't have ML-KEM yet, but I already want to use it because scary ⚛️ quantum computers are coming and will break everrrrrything ☠️! So I made a small one-file WASM-based implementation with an API from the future that I can switch later to crypto.subtle. github.com/dchest/mlkem...

Fun fact:

Shift+Cmd+D is a shortcut to send email in Apple Mail.
It's also a shortcut to discard email in Gmail 🤦‍♂️

Don't ask how I know.

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of the journey.

Here’s to the next chapter!

As we celebrate 15 years, I’m more excited than ever about what’s ahead.

With new features coming and a growing community, I Write Like is becoming a home for writers — a place to grow, improve, and still enjoy the surprise of being told you write like Jane Austen.

This year we released native apps for 🍎 macOS, iOS, and iPadOS — IWL: Smarter Writing — making it easier than ever to edit and analyze files on your devices without losing privacy and control over your work to cloud services. Privacy is the core of I Write Like.

As AI takes center stage in writing, I Write Like has embraced this change by incorporating large language models as another helpful tool for authors, ensuring the human element remains central.

Last year, I Write Like evolved. It’s now a smart workspace for writers — a place to write, edit, and get insights into your writing.

From author comparisons to tools that help refine your voice, it’s become a creative companion — not just a curiosity.

It hit a nerve — part game, part curiosity, part validation. Over the years, it’s been featured in the media, discussed in classrooms, and used by authors searching for their literary twin.

I’m grateful to everyone who tried it, shared it, or built something inspired by it.