People almost invariably don’t want to hurt other people and feel bad when they do. The fact that we can feel a lack of respect or kindness in a given social situation is evidence that those good qualities are the water we normally swim in.
Source: Cynicism is Boring →
I love what Grammarly can do – but boy, its Premium tier is costly. Ironically, every time it corrects me, I want to pay for the service. But then I see how much it costs & I can’t convince myself that I need it enough. I tried LanguageTool for a year, but reconsidering now.
I am tired of even the simple utility apps going for subscription model instead of right out one-time purchases. Make the app a paid app – sure make it costlier than the subscription cost. Don’t say it’s free and present “Subscribe” button first thing when your user opens the app.
I understand, as a developer subscriptions are tempting. But please, respect your users. Or else you lose them.
I want to support the developers, but am fatigued. Subscriptions are costly. Now, I subscribe for service. And I pay for app. I am doing nothing else any more.
When writing, and also when doing research for writing, it’s important to get the details right, but that doesn’t always mean what you might think. Economy of detail is usually better than excess, which raises the critical question about which details matter most.
An insightful read this, Verisimilitude by Matt Gemmell. I found this suggestion really on the mark.
Research is a distillation. You’ll spend two hours reading, to get four paragraphs of notes, which provide eight words of story — but those eight words will take the reader into the world you’ve created, and create the impression that your character really is there, or really knows about this topic. Just make sure it’s either unremarkable that they would know those things, or that their knowledge has been explicitly accounted for.
While writing short stories that I based on some amount of research, I myself have struggled at times to know how much is enough. This was a good reminder from Matt.
Every now and then, there’s an XKCD comic which I can make no sense of. Today’s (or XKCD 2626) was such. I am not that smart you see 😄
To be lonely, then, is to desire an absent want. It is to feel an emptiness that remains unsatisfied — to feel isolated, in need, or abandoned, but with no one to help. Yet solitude is another thing altogether. To be solitary is to retreat into yourself, and to take great pleasure in your own company.
Source: Solitude is not loneliness. Here’s the key philosophical difference. →
I have replaced Windows on my laptop today with Linux – basically, I installed the Lubuntu distro. But that was only because I had a bootable drive ready with Lubuntu. As I then checked for the updates on the distro, I realized so much has changed again. There are many new distros available now that I hadn’t even heard about earlier.
Anyway, the standard, famous ones continue to stay. One that caught my eye was Zorin OS. Looks nice, plus is based on Ubuntu.
“Staying up late does not give you more time. It delays the renumeration against the work your body has put in throughout the day. It might be pleasing in the moment, but it also begins a countdown towards ruining a day in the coming week for you.”
The above is my mind attempting to have a dialog with the stubborn me. I wish I would listen to him.
I am looking forward to today’s qualifier between RR and RCB. I have always loved the play RR plays – always the underdogs on paper, but punch above their weight. This time they are strong on paper too. I am hoping for a the first qualifier rematch in the IPL finals.
It’s best to put emoji at the very end of your written content which also means not using them as bullet points. This practice will help you avoid creating any clarity issues that could be caused by an icon’s coded description interfering with the rest of your copy.
Good tip to make Emoji accessible. And a brilliant resource this, overall.