You'll be happy. It gets fussy with damp or really tall...
@artificialnix You'll be happy. It gets fussy with damp or really tall grass (we did no-mow May) so you have to go a little slow but otherwise it zips along. (My favorite Ego product is the snowblower which chomps through batteries but shoots snow 35 feet in the air.)
Excellent. I have a ton of their stuff, not the leafblower,...
@artificialnix Excellent. I have a ton of their stuff, not the leafblower, but I really love the lawnmower which is a suprisingly good leaf and small stick mulcher and very pleasant overall.
Once again, and in violation of all decency, Businessweek...
Once again, and in violation of all decency, Businessweek has locked some poor writer (@matt_levine) inside the Bloomberg building and refused to let him out until he thoroughly explains an exhausting technology subject. (It’s useful and great.) bloomberg.com/...
Diana’s death was a moment where the web was suddenly...
@vgr Diana’s death was a moment where the web was suddenly vital. washingtonpost.com/... still exists for example. Elizabeth’s death was vast but utterly without novelty or surprise. The forms are rigid now. This version is done evolving.
My son is 11 and got an Apple Watch, but can never close...
My son is 11 and got an Apple Watch, but can never close his rings because he put his height in as 5’9” and thus the watch doesn’t believe he ever stands up. We can’t figure out how to change it. Genuine tragedy.
This project—creating an offline @StackOverflow that can...
This project—creating an offline @StackOverflow that can be used for prisoner education and low-bandwidth environments—has been a @benpopper effort for years and it's VERY good to see it in the world. stackoverflow.blog/...
you're a good man josh i'm releasing your family from the...
@jgee you're a good man josh i'm releasing your family from the undisclosed location now
(octonauts is an undersea james bond show with aquatic sea defending animals with strong ecological commitment for pre-schoolers that you end up begging your children to watch)
Post-pandemic event planning is wild. There are a goodly...
Post-pandemic event planning is wild. There are a goodly number of cool people coming now, THANK GOD, but people keep saying they don't have sitters. @richziade and I say bring the kids. We'll pirate some Octonauts and project it on a wall. eventbrite.com/...
Oh also! I should mention! We are always recruiting—design,...
Oh also! I should mention! We are always recruiting—design, eng, product—and glad to meet if you want to come out. I mean what the hell, even if it doesn't work out you can have a treat and I'll intro you to someone nice. eventbrite.com/...
I know no one leaves the house any more, and I respect...
I know no one leaves the house any more, and I respect that, but if you're in NYC next Wednesday and still enjoy bearing witness to other human beings/free food, come to an old-fashioned software release party and let us buy your attention! eventbrite.com/...
Hello! @richziade and I (+ many others) have been building...
Hello! @richziade and I (+ many others) have been building software to help teams manage their DATA—it's a mix of chat, low-code, and data management. We're having a launch party Oct 26 in NYC. Food, drink, we'll hang, demo, and give you access. Let's go! eventbrite.com/...
It’s middle-class audio which is absolutely perfect for me...
@capndesign It’s middle-class audio which is absolutely perfect for me tbh. The kids have them in their rooms. I also have two 5s in the living room and an Arc in the basement. Utter surrender. Pretty compatible with streaming family plans I.e. people can have their own music.
Then PARC down the street (interacting w/SAIL) creates a...
@kjhealy Then PARC down the street (interacting w/SAIL) creates a genuine populist vision of that community (which Jobs licenses, and off the races), but Knuth keeps going with his vision. Last gasp of protestant utopianism/scholarship in the midst of a libertarian economic supernova.
He's continuing that tradition (incl. protestantism). But...
@kjhealy He's continuing that tradition (incl. protestantism). But by the 70s the computer can do the work you needed craftspeople to do, and Stanford/grad students can provide labor, so you don't need a big planned utopian community.
One of my little things that is of absolutely no interest...
@kjhealy One of my little things that is of absolutely no interest to anyone is to compare William Morris/Kelmscott to Elbert Hubbard/Roycrofters to Knuth/TeX as communitarian projects focused on restoring the concept of craft as the foundation of the arts (also unifying art + science).