End User

A [just recovered, thought-to-be-lost!] conversation with DomanarK from Clueless Space Nerds – one of the most entertaining Eve Online podcasts around.We knew he was an authority on the game; turns out he’s one on life, too.

I plugged 50 of my latest posts on bilge.world into Google’s NotebookLM and told it to generate an audio overview. Here’s the result.

Just trying to be glad you’re finally willing to acknowledge Mastodon’s existence! This is the first audio production I’ve ever done entirely on a goddamned iPad - recording, editing, “mixing”, rendering, and “publishing.” Isn’t that interesting!?? If you haven’t already, look into Ferrite. In-Progress The (Twitter) Thread The (Mastodon) Thread The (Live-updated) Notes The GitHub Repository (Which I have literally done nothing with yet.) The Positives Joanna Stern’s Take Couldn’t find the video from that GitHub stream in a reasonable amount of time. If you’d really like to see it, though, let me know and I’ll keep looking. My previous work regarding Mastodon My 2017 Eugen Rochko interview My gargantuan Mastodon iOS app roundup My “review” of Mastodon for iOS Futureland Episode 26 My following list in Gist form

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A collection of Twitter Spaces recordings I’ve accumulated over the past few months, starting with my FIRST EVER direct conversation with employees of Twitter, Incorporated.

An audio programme about consumer technology… Recorded more than two thousand miles East of Silicon Valley…

(EDIT: Audio has truly been fixed now... Sorry about that.) On Saturday, September 4th, I scheduled a Twitter Space entitled "How to Explain iOS 15 to Your Mom" a few hours in advance, not necessarily expecting any speakers or guests to show up, but an old friend and two new ones did! They indulged me for a near-2 hour conversation about a whole lot and I really appreciate it. Guests @uploadspeed @ArsonAtDennys @AlisonBuki

My conversation with Bradley Varol - a London-based developer who loves Hardstyle, drives an imported Toyota Chaser, and has bigger aspirations for his two-month-old audio sharing service than Vocaroo, Clyp, and Instaudio, combined. Support Whyp via Ko-fi. WHYP.IT The Whyp Press Kit Discord Twitter Facebook We talked a lot about the future, but I think it'd be worth my time to thoroughly analyze Whyp's usefulness in the present, which you'll see soon on both Extratone and The Psalms. If you want to really go deep, you can follow and comment on its Issue in The Psalms' GitHub Repository. Once again, any thoughts of yours even remotely adjacent to the subject would make my day - do reach out!

I have returned to school! ...and commented on The Social Dilemma, bought a desktop, broke Windows, installed WordPress, used a Kindle (ew,) started a Digital Magazine Collection, browsed the web using Microsoft products, and read a wonderful book about the history of word processing. That sound you're hearing at the beginning is one I made exclusively using sounds from Windows 98. End User has made a total of $1.58 to date! Incredible. Reporting From the Digital Classrom of 2020 You've Just Watched 'The Social Dilemma'... Indulging Once More in Digital Excess and Revelations of Network Withdrawals (which is exactly two years old, today.) What The Fuck  (Yes, I've been tinkering with yet another WordPress installation. Sorry.) Digital Gardens Creative Wellness 💔Finally Broke Windows Varmilo VA108M Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing Microsoft Browsing Review If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback/petty insults, please do contact me via Email, Twitter, Mastodon, or Discord. (And hey! Here's my full social directory.)

Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips and an interesting new medium for interviews This episode, I discuss Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips - some of the software and lesser-known methodologies I've discovered over the years of Just Fucking Around. Interview with write.as Community Manager CJ Eller about Markdown, my tips post, Extratone, and all the stuff I've been doing on the web. Write.As Enpass CopyQ CopyQ Demo Windows 10 Basic Shortcuts "Microsoft’s new Spotlight-like launcher for Windows 10 will arrive in May" | The Verge Markdown Bear "Why I finally replaced Evernote with Bear" | The Verge Typora OBS Compact OS If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback/petty insults, please do contact me via Email, Twitter, Mastodon, or Discord.

After living and working with Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2 since its release, I've realized (intellectually) that it's more suited to my personal use than any other machine I've ever used, but my emotional brain has remained just far enough behind to stay out of the way of saying something useful.  Spare yourself and just read my full written review instead.  Resources/Further Reading The Vergecast on the release of the original Surface Laptop, last year. "There's not a whole huge gap between an iPad Pro and the new Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S." (Windows 10 S is an entirely different issue that we can thankfully leave in the past.) "The best computer is one you hate a little" - The Outline (I must find Windows 10's ignorance almost as charming as I found Windows XP's thoughtfulness.) "Microsoft offers up Windows 10 1809 to nervy seekers" - ComputerWorld  "Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 review: If it ain't broke" - by Dan Seifert for The Verge +Their review of the first model. "Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 is the best laptop of 2018" - Mashable +Microsoft's website page for the Surface Laptop 2 includes a quote from this review front and center. "Spec-Down: Apple MacBook Air vs. Microsoft Surface Laptop 2" - PCMag "The 2018 MacBook Air is good, but not great" - Mashable  "Microsoft Surface Review" - by Joshua Topolsky for The Verge back in October 2012. "Microsoft's Surface Laptop feels beautiful" - The Verge "The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV" - The Outline "With the Surface, Microsoft just started writing its next chapter" - by Joshua Topolsky for The Verge  "What OEMs desperately need to learn from Microsoft's Surface" - ZDNet

Though iOS 12 has technically been in consumers’ hands for half a year, its greatest implications seem to have gone relatively unnoticed.

A month without reliable home internet was less sabbaticle, more mild psychological self-torture, but at least I can vouch for Opera Turbo, Telegram X, and mobile.twitter.com.

What is "real" authority in technology? What happens when a hardcore Magic Realist spends every possible minute of his life browsing the Internet? How can our old terms possibly pertain to anything effectively in the now when most of them were formed pre-2011? These conversations were long overdue, and I'm delighted to bring them back. Thank you for accommodating me! I look forward to hearing from you.