blueridge

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   by blueridge 6y ago

   Thanks! There's nothing to show yet. No domain, no essays, no pages. Just an early work-in-progress.
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   You can always write in Markdown, say with iA Writer, then export to HTML. I typically write offline, then type and revise on the computer, then copy paragraphs over to Sublime. Code snippets and syntax highlighting done with CSS.
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   Yeah! I am with you on this. I've used nothing but HTML/CSS for all of my side projects for years. I manually create, update, and publish each page. Hell, I still drag and drop via FTP. It is indeed very fun. Here's a screens
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   Laughed out loud at this. Nailed it.
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   We sure do spend a lot of time brooding about how to generate, write about, and share ideas with an unknown online audience. What would happen if instead of spending hours and hours researching whether we should use WordPress or Ghost or Je
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   Excerpts from Neil Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985): “We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal dem
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr https://bookshop.org/books/solitude-a-return-to-the-self-rei... Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff https://bookshop.org/books/metaphors-we-live-by-rev
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   I've discovered the world of fountain pens! I purchased a TWSBY pen, Pilot ink, and a notebook with Tomoe River paper. I feel like I have been missing out on a truly wonderful handwriting experience for my entire adult life. I had no i
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   by blueridge 6y ago

   “Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the "adjustment" of the individual to his society, but, on the other hand, that it must be defined in terms of the society to the needs of man, of its role in furthering or hindering th
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    Great read. Reminds me of "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" by Daniel Boorstin.
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    Sunday morning follow-up reading: Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-th... Analog Anchors for the Online Adrift https://www.th
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    From Technopoly (1992) by Neil Postman: In the United States, we have 260,000 billboards; 11,250 newspapers; 11,556 periodicals; 27,000 video outlets for renting video tapes; more than 500 million radios; and more than 100 million computers
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    Ask HN: Do you ever feel that you’ve done “enough” work for a lifetime?

    1 points by blueridge 6y ago|2 comments
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    I am wondering what happened to paragraphs? This one line one sentence style seems to be popular on Medium. But there is no rhythm. There is no flow. Each sentence must have started on separate index cards. Why wouldn't you weave them
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    Many of us work with people whom we have never met in person, building products that are not real, to fill the needs of strangers whose jobs should unquestionably not exist. Furthermore, sometimes it feels impossible to do creative work on
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    by blueridge 6y ago

    I'm working on launching an online "journal" of sorts, focused on publishing short essays from people who don't ever publish if only because they don't have editorial support or a place for their writing to live. It