What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear the word “India”? What’s the second thing? And if you search for the stock images with the word, do the results reflect your thoughts? For many that I know of, the answer is always in negative.
Thoughts
I cringe when someone uses the phrase “normal people” while describing a section of a service’s users. Is that the best usage of the phrase? What does it make me, one who doesn’t use the service in the “normal” way? Abnormal? Why would you call your user that?
Who is Ghost targeted at? Why is everything around this service so pricey? I understand that it provides the self-hosted option - but that ain’t cheap either. When all such services charge anywhere bewteen $5-$10, why are most options for Ghost around $20? What’s so premium?
I’ve removed all the custom fonts, something that I’ve been extremely picky about, from my site now. This has drastically improved the load times across the pages, at times loading within a second. Sure it does lose the personality, but I’m ecstatic with the benefits.
Wow, there has been a deluge of Hello messages written to the “world” today. The world must be feeling overwhelmed, wondering what ruffled us earthlings today 😬
No! How can this be?! I’ve read only fifty-two per cent of this damn book?
No! How can this be?! That’s exactly me, reading.
Is there a threshold of word count that when hit, and only then, an essay or a book will be considered notable? Or what is communicated be taken seriously? If not, why do I see authors unnecessary lengthening the prose?
Come to the point, make it with conviction and sign off.
March is yet to begin and the Summer’s already here. The room coolers are out. The earthen pots that store the water are out. And watermelon is in the home! AC, fridge and icecreams don’t bring the same joy to me.
Anyway it’s close to 🍉'o clock 😁
Why is it that it's only the Mac, iPhone, or iPad apps that work well with the Indieweb principles? Say, for example, integrating well through a micropub endpoint? Are all Indieweb app developers in the Apple ecosystem?
I don't like GitHub's dark theme - it's painful to my eyes. There's too much contrast between the dark background and the lighter fonts. It's not simply about going white on black - getting the balance of shades right is not a trivial thing.
Sometimes I get afraid of tapping that YouTube app. It just drains too much of my time - even with all my efforts to make the service a lot less addictive. I fear this service even more than any social media app out there. I know I will start with something interesting, but will eventually start watching the same old videos that I've already seen.
It is easier to stop myself going in than to convince myself to come out. Inertia much?
I only recently came across this wonderful Netflix show Manhunt: Unabomber. Boy, it was brilliant - No idea how it missed my radar. Such a thrilling story narrated in an engrossing manner. Masterful, intelligent and affecting.
Dropbox can also store your passwords now with their password manager - and it’s built into their Plus and Professional plans. This could be a good option for those affected by the LastPass change to their Free plan.
Not for me though - am not (yet) a paying Dropbox customer. I don’t know till when that can last. Appears to me that all services I use are reconsidering their free tiers.
For all the non-iOS users, what’s the Android phone that you currently use or are planning to upgrade to?
(That question also brings a sad reality of duopoly that the exists today.)
Of course, there had to be a term decision fatigue - “the emotional and mental strain resulting from a burden of choices”. It has to be the king of all fatigues. It leaves you paralyzed. What’s worse is you still go through your motions as if everything’s normal. Pathetic!
I know password manager's an important service and one shouldn't hesitate to pay for it. But LastPass's free tier was a good enough option for me; there was no feature that I needed to pay the subscription price for. That changed with today's modifications to that free tier.
That update also made me reevaluate my options. And I realized 1Password is a better option for me -- both in terms of the features and the cost it charges (especially in Indian market).
So I've ditched LastPass the moment they asked me to pay. Is that cheating?
Is today’s doomscrolling a severe variant of 2007’s wwilfing? I’d, for sure, suffered from the later during my early blogging days. We humans have since long mastered two things – finding the most boring ways to kill our productivity & naming them in the most creative manner.
I read a headline “The science of reasoning with unreasonable people”. Why would I do that?
I finished (finally!) reading 4:50 from Paddington today. I was about to rate this book a lot lower than what I eventually did. The meandering second half - a difficult feat in an already short book - made me forget how brilliant the first half of the book was.
I felt this was a short story that Christie wrote first and then rewrote it for a book. Wish she hadn’t.
Stop Defacing Quotes With Brackets! →
If the changes are not obvious, don’t use the quote; if they’re not necessary, don’t use the brackets. The goal is to present the quotation as directly as possible.
This comment from Dave Winer made me pause.
[Y]ou don’t make money from a blog or podcast, but you can make money because of a blog or podcast.
Our moral evaluations of the main big actions that influence our world today, and that built our world from past worlds, are still up for grabs.
Why is it that every time I take a break from writing, for whatever reason, I find it extremely difficult to get back? I feel the longer am away, the better the next post has to be; it has to explain why I was away. May be I am not comfortable? That’s stupid, but I can’t help.
I am just one book away to complete my 2020 reading challenge. Goodreads tells me there are still 14 days left! It believes I can do it! I know many can. I don’t know if I can in 2020. Such has been this year.