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Daring Fireball: Yours Truly on The Vergecast: # the Epic Story of Markdown : But the biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions [ ]
I tested four different AI models on a bunch of event information in DEVONThink and I was disappointed!
OmniFocus 4.7's new features have helped me a lot.
Yesterday afternoon, I had a song stuck in my head, which was the Billie Holiday recording of I’ll Be Seeing You. I knew it was in my head, though, because of it being featured in a movie or TV show — I could tell from the way it was running through my head that it [ ]
Dorico 5 to Dorico 6 has been the longest gap between major version releases in the program’s life thus far.1 Among other things, many free updates during the lifecycle of 5 (many of which were to help users coming from Finale) kept things busy. But in spite of all the smaller updates throughout the lifecycle [ ]
Some App Finding Resources for You Amerpie by Lou Plummer: Lou s site is a great set of recommendations, and I m glad to see some of what he shares for sources on here. I m not trying out new apps every week, but there s lots of cool new things out there all the time. (First try [ ]
I’ve written plenty about apps I use out of the scant writing I do on this site.1 But while I love to think about my personal productivity system, there’s lots of good tools out there beyond what I use that are worth being on others’ radar. The biggest reason why I haven’t so much as [ ]
While I m not a programmer or a developer, I do like to get a lot nerdier than most, and that often means delving into the terminal. I know some basic things while I m down there and have customized mine a bit, but I m still definitely a novice – I wouldn t be comfortable writing any bash [ ]
Nothing will ever be the same again.
Pro sports teams with states in their names open the door for some confusion – but who does this apply to and how do sports journalists actually tackle it?