Excursions avatar

Excursions

I'm spending more than I would like on my hobby projects. I always think it is an okay price to pay for the learning and sharing I do. But every time the bill is generated, I hesitate to continue. Today's one such day.

My wife and my daughter are mobile-first. They can do everything on that puny device. I need a laptop and a keyboard if any amount of research is to be done. Be it typing or reading. I am not at all comfortable with typing and searching on my smartphone.

I love how ChromeOS has extended the life of my ageing laptop. It's still feels snappy and good for my reading/writing heavy use.

I looked at the podcasts I had subscribed to when I used to listen to them. And I quickly realized why I had stopped following this medium. Again too much of same stuff out there - few guys talking about news that don't matter.

There were only a couple of interesting podcasts which I had any interest in. Am I unaware of some space that hosts the good shows people follow?

Numberphile’s bread and butter remains the intimate, idiosyncratic one-on-ones with a veritable who’s who of mathematicians and math communicators that have both endeared Haran to his presenters and humanized for viewers a subject often perceived as devoid of color or personality.

Source: A Duodecade of Numberphile →

Numberphile remains one of the few channels that I never miss an episode from.

I don't know what it takes to support this. But if Micro.blog allows logging in with the Mastodon-compatible username (that it generates by default now) through any of the Mastodon clients, the number of clients for Micro.blog would increase significantly.