Note No. 62

IndieWeb Carnival Jan ’25 round-up

Note No. 67

Footnotes on the web

Essay No. 110

A quick guide to self-hosting Actual Budget

Note No. 66

The website as a book

Note No. 65

Statamic Webmentions v2.0

Note No. 64

Moving from iA Writer to BBEdit

Note No. 63

The Contrarians

Essay No. 109

An exercise in restraint

Note No. 61

One-a-month club

Essay No. 108

Blogs did not break the web

Note No. 60

Webmentions add-on for Statamic

Note No. 59

Website v app

Note No. 58

Drama at WordPress

Newsletter No. 24

The self-help industry

Essay No. 107

Relics of the future

Essay No. 106

Tracking broad data

Note No. 57

That picture

Essay No. 105

On the importance of friction

Note No. 56

IndieWeb Carnival Jan ’25

Newsletter No. 23

The meaning of ‘knowing’

Note No. 55

AI-generated images on the web

Essay No. 104

What is your belief system?

Note No. 54

On coffee and Satan

Note No. 53

The disappearance of literary men

Note No. 52

Robert Paxton: Fascism renewed

Note No. 51

Will the US elect a woman?

Essay No. 103

Emacs and mu4e e-mail on macOS

Essay No. 102

Effort and return in technology

Newsletter No. 22

Is preservation tantamount to celebration?

Essay No. 101

A stroll through Bristol

Note No. 50

Carl Hoffman on Michael Rockefeller’s disappearance

Essay No. 100

Outdoor smoking areas

Essay No. 99

Assorted rituals

Note No. 49

A note on my absence

Newsletter No. 21

How to use AI to ensure a more human society

Note No. 48

Erik Hoel on AI ‘garbage’

Essay No. 98

Music as a creative environment

Essay No. 97

Why I write

Note No. 47

Guinea pigs and trailblazers

Essay No. 96

When web accessibility felt restrictive

Bookshelf No. 21

Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins

Note No. 46

Emacs packages

Note No. 45

Formulating backlashes

Note No. 44

Getting into the world of emacs

Essay No. 95

We should use markdown more

Newsletter No. 20

The dark side of philanthropy

Essay No. 94

Zettelkasten redux

Note No. 43

Default apps (2024)

Note No. 42

The theme switcher conundrum

Note No. 41

Bill chill

Note No. 40

All academic disciplines should should use LaTeX

Essay No. 93

New design

Note No. 39

Nolan v Reeves

Newsletter No. 19

Digital relationships

Essay No. 92

Scraping the web for AI development is theft

Essay No. 91

Digital relationships

Note No. 38

I will read it

Note No. 37

Rock music from 1984

Note No. 36

Religious intolerance in India

Note No. 35

Peggy McIntosh on white privilege

Note No. 34

“Carrie” by VocalType

Newsletter No. 18

Form and content

Note No. 33

Rules for writing fiction

Note No. 32

It’s time AI crawlers are forced to accept terms of use on all websites

Note No. 31

NYT suing OpenAI is a good thing

Note No. 30

Are State-sponsored ride-hailing apps the answer? Maybe

Note No. 30

“Make 2024 the year of the personal website” —Matthias Ott

Essay No. 90

What makes a great camera?

Newsletter No. 17

Should you do your own research?

Bookshelf No. 20

How to take smart notes by Sönke Arhens

Essay No. 89

The table ranking system in football is flawed

Newsletter No. 16

The arctic permafrost has been mapped

Essay No. 88

How to build a zettelkasten system

Essay No. 87

Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina

Newsletter No. 15

How can we solve the popular science conundrum?

Essay No. 86

Good and bad things on the internet

Essay No. 85

Daylight saving time explained

Essay No. 84

Review: Trek Dual Sport 2 hybrid bike

Essay No. 83

How I organise and manage my e-mails

Essay No. 82

To complain is human

Bookshelf No. 19

Mythos by Stephen Fry

Newsletter No. 14

Stop calling it ‘Barbenheimer’

Essay No. 81

Barbie’s world should not be dreamland

Newsletter No. 13

How time could shift the world’s economic balance

Newsletter No. 12

Threads, Bluesky and the great race to monopolise ActivityPub

Essay No. 80

The perfect social network will not build itself

Essay No. 79

Against the NOTA vote

Essay No. 78

Why Silicon Valley Bank failed

Essay No. 77

Superhero fatigue or poor screenwriting?

Essay No. 76

On legality and morality

Essay No. 75

Choosing a body typeface

Essay No. 74

The White Lotus: Season 2

Essay No. 73

The White Lotus

Newsletter No. 11

Artificial Intelligence has finally learnt enough to end society as we know it

Essay No. 72

Where did our dreams go?

Newsletter No. 10

Countries have stepped into 2023 carrying their COVID-19 baggage with them

Newsletter No. 9

Why is tech starting to look right-wing?

Newsletter No. 8

Dispatch from Rhûn is now Confluence

Essay No. 71

The Twitter files: lessons in wading through nonsense

Essay No. 70

Mastodon: the future of the internet

Essay No. 69

Traffic in Mumbai

Bookshelf No. 18

Talking to strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Essay No. 68

Why some of us like true crime

Essay No. 67

Conscious eco-capitalism

Newsletter No. 7

Tune out of your default settings

Bookshelf No. 17

Status anxiety by Alain de Botton

Essay No. 66

Lessons in familiarity

Essay No. 66

Animal sports should be regulated or stopped

Essay No. 64

Euro 2020—the fantastic way

Essay No. 63

Mastering Focus on iOS 15

Bookshelf No. 16

Educated by Tara Westover

Essay No. 62

Birthday resolutions

Bookshelf No. 15

The psychology of money by Morgan Housel

Essay No. 61

Hunting down the real Aspasia

Newsletter No. 6

Getting artsy

Essay No. 60

The case against nihilism

Essay No. 59

Leaving home

Essay No. 58

Battling COVID-19

Newsletter No. 5

Let’s talk about the year 2040

Newsletter No. 4

Long-term investments

Essay No. 57

Jeep Compass

Bookshelf No. 14

Stop reading the news by Rolf Dobelli

Newsletter No. 3

Three people you should meet

Essay No. 56

Random acts of kindness

Essay No. 55

Star Trek: Picard

Newsletter No. 2

Balance is key

Newsletter No. 1

Dispatch from Rhûn

Essay No. 54

Dispatch from Rhûn—a new newsletter

Essay No. 53

Cloudscapes

Bookshelf No. 13

Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl

Essay No. 52

The future of our world—II

Essay No. 51

A call for sanity

Essay No. 50

The art of meditation

Essay No. 49

The future of our world—I

Essay No. 48

Incendies

Bookshelf No. 12

The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera

Essay No. 47

COVID-19 and the bright side of humanity's capacity for survival

Essay No. 46

The trouble with FIRE

Essay No. 45

Attention Management

Bookshelf No. 11

Outspoken by Veronica Rueckert

Essay No. 44

Star Trek: Discovery is an operatic nod to TOS and TNG

Essay No. 43

U and non-U english in the 21st century

Essay No. 42

It is time to bring back the wax seal

Essay No. 41

The subtle art of not giving a book

Essay No. 40

On the by-election in Karnataka in The Indian Express

Bookshelf No. 10

Atomic habits by James Clear

Essay No. 39

Tame your tech

Bookshelf No. 9

Indistractable by Nir Eyal

Essay No. 38

The iPad-only experiment, redux

Essay No. 37

Random approaches to better living

Essay No. 36

Dispatch From Kozhikode

Essay No. 35

On dynastic politics in India in The Indian Express

Essay No. 34

On the smoke monster and other elements of ‘Lost’

Essay No. 33

Google should turn off AMP

Essay No. 32

Karnataka crisis: This sham must stop in Deccan Herald

Bookshelf No. 8

All about Apple under Tim Cook by Leander Kahney

Note No. 28

A lesson in overpopulation and toilet-clogging

Note No. 27

Banksy on migration

Essay No. 31

Apple Watch Series 4

Bookshelf No. 7

The headspace guide to mindfulness and meditation by Andy Puddicombe

Essay No. 30

Lessons from building my first app ever

Essay No. 29

Secrets of staying motivated

Essay No. 28

The GitHub experience

Essay No. 27

A guide to living in the present

Essay No. 26

In random conversations with farmers

Note No. 26

Cyclists on city roads

Note No. 25

Chuck Close on inspiration

Bookshelf No. 6

A practical guide to always doing your best by Todd Henry

Essay No. 25

Gladstone

Bookshelf No. 5

The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson

Essay No. 24

What happens when our virtual selves take us over

Bookshelf No. 4

Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers

Note No. 24

Accusation should not prevent election participation

Note No. 23

Instagram co-founders to step down from the company

Note No. 22

India strikes down law against gay sex

Note No. 21

Cold turkey, part 2

Note No. 20

Prison should be for rehabilitation, not confinement

Note No. 19

Reading 50 books at once

Bookshelf No. 3

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Essay No. 23

Improving and expanding Dogme Teaching

Essay No. 22

The layman’s perspective

Essay No. 21

Vergangenheitsbewältigung is the need of the hour

Essay No. 20

macOS for physicists

Essay No. 19

The trouble with Google Search

Essay No. 18

On entropy, randomness and shuffling a playlist

Essay No. 17

The mathematics of a medical second opinion

Essay No. 16

How the far right became popular

Essay No. 16

A drive through China–Lanka

Essay No. 14

Installing gnuplot on macOS

Essay No. 13

A eulogy for my grandfather

Essay No. 12

A new LaTeX class for lecture notes

Essay No. 11

We must all sleep more

Essay No. 10

P. Chidambaram at Mysore Literature Festival

Bookshelf No. 2

A criminal defense by William L. Myers, Jr

Essay No. 9

Quiet reflections on unplugging from society

Essay No. 8

In praise of coursebooks

Essay No. 7

What does it mean to be educated?

Bookshelf No. 1

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Essay No. 6

Internet pollution

Essay No. 5

The purpose of a photograph

Essay No. 4

Neuschwanstein

Note No. 18

Pollution, by the people, against the people

Essay No. 3

Information overload and an overly social web

Note No. 17

Lying becomes easier with time

Note No. 16

On bias in Facebook trending topics

Essay No. 2

Making a case for the liberal arts

Note No. 15

Saying Julius Caesar

Note No. 14

Moving to Byword and eternal bliss

Note No. 13

Expectations from iOS 10 default apps

Note No. 12

US elections 2016: between a rock and a hard place

Note No. 11

Twitter is replacing favourite with heart

Note No. 10

Inbox zero: updates

Note No. 9

Greenpeace freeze

Note No. 8

Inbox zero, step one: unsubscribe

Note No. 7

Practise web introversion

Note No. 6

R. Flanagan, Merkel and refugees, and more

Note No. 5

The other face of oil

Note No. 4

Cold turkey

Note No. 3

How many social networks are you on? Why?

Note No. 2

We live in a pinball machine

Note No. 1

The internet is about differentiation

Essay No. 1

Our universe: marble or wood?