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by nicbou 3mo ago
What about really good information? Instructions? Guides?
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It's one level of abstraction below "enrichment"
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I see more simple blogs about the joys of having a blog. It’s still much better than the cottage industry around growth hacking your Substack. A personal website is whatever you want it to be. Mine is getting more personal with every passin
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Spanish Citroen C15 memes are my type of humour
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Great writeup, and welcome aboard! A few things I would add: - Make it a habit to share other blogs that you love. The IndieWeb relies on word of mouth and human curation. I love "what I enjoyed this month" posts. - Be lavish in y
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I maintain that a Renault Kangoo is the best car format ever.
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Where do you live? I believe that this will make a huge difference. Does the state ensure decent work-life balance and childcare?
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Regular 1.5GB updates are nuts, especially when WebOS is so terrible.
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How does it improve upon existing blogging platforms? It does not let me access any posts without creating an account. So far, every step seems heavily vibe coded or AI generated. Account requirement and AI slop are the two exact things I w
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Tinder for assembling ikea furniture. The service pays for itself by selling assembly services.
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Fancy notebooks are cheap enough to treat them like a drainage ditch. My no fucks given notebook is IMO the best Japan has to offer, and it’s just 10 euros. I have had more expensive sandwiches.
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Get a good notebook and a good pen, if only because the cost is almost irrelevant. I waste them just like the cheap crap because wasting pages is am essential part pf the creative process. Midori notebooks have set a higher bar for me. At 1
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I just use one notebook for everything. Midori A6. It keeps all my notes and sketches in one sequential set. Learning to waste pages has allowed me to sketch a lot more, which made me a better artist. There is no system. I use the paper to
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It might be worth a heads up, but your writing is excellent and you totally get to ask for payment.
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I meet everyone this way. I reach out to people and people reach out to me.
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I fully agree. I have experienced the same thing. It was hard not to take it personally, but I have come to accept that people are busy, tired, shy, and sometimes just not organisers of things. When I feel that way now, I remind myself that
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It's not much more of a free market when giant corporations do.
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There is a point where the things you took for granted start decaying. Your body, your things, your communities, your relationships. It's only when you start repairing or replacing them that you really value maintenance and the people
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It made me disconnect and live more in the moment after directly threatening my source of income, filling every interaction with spam, accelerating climate change and generally making the future a lot more uncertain.
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> Offspring: the pupniks
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It beats nonstop AI stuff
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Note: there is a paywall much later in the post, but even the free part is a wonderful read.
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The googly eyes are such a nice touch! Great writeup.
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I don't like this. I'm here to do a job for money. This just pressures me to present myself as whimsical and interesting in an HR-friendly way. I feel for the regular dudes who feel like they have to dance for HR people who spend
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Nice site! I think it will always be there, but the world is noisier and noisier, and it gets hard to hear human voices.
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> people loved them There's the thing. AI creates something that looks like quality, especially to an undiscerning audience. It ticks all the boxes of a professionally-made creation: composition, lighting, bokeh and so on. It takes
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For those missing context: we beat all-time heat records with ~42ºC, and it was quite difficult to manage for 3 days with our current infrastructure.
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This is good to hear. The German media has a lot more teeth than in other countries. A constellation of interests is protecting artists and publicists. I am surprised that they took so long to act.
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We had exams where the calculator was allowed, because we were tested on our ability to type in the right calculations. The calculator wouldn't save you.
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I disagree. I read books, but I also read essays, newsletters, blogs, Wikipedia articles, discussions and so on. These also contain important and useful information. It's not a dichotomy between books and slop. Hell, a lot of books sho

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