Music Spending Is Smaller Share Of A Bigger Pie – Economist Writing Every Day
We noted that “People Are Paying For Music Again” in 2024, showing that streaming was partly making up for the drop in sales of physical recordings, while live music sales were setting …| Economist Writing Every Day
怀念小林子
近日惊闻你去世的噩耗，觉得有必要写一些文字来纪念。年初我们见过一面，聊了孩子的教育，和老人家怎么沟通，中年人的身体健康，创业艰难等琐事，回来后我觉得我们可以重新做朋友，但这段时间太懒，没有再联系，结果就是永别了。| 一言堂
Thoughts on Flash
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death expe...| web.archive.org
Daniel Gultsch | Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. However, when it came to releasing the app to the public on March 24, 2014—exactly twelve and a half years ago today—it was immediately clear to me that I wo...| Daniel Gultsch
Double-entry bookkeeping and paper and tokens | Honza Pokorný
The invention of double-entry bookkeeping has had profound implications on our world. All modern commerce owes a debt (hi!) to it. I have heard it compared to the invention of numbers. In turn, this accounting mechanism was made possible by the sudden availability of cheap paper. In The notebook: a history of thinking on paper, Roland Allen writes: Before paper became easily available in the years after 1244, Italian merchants had used parchment books to record their transactions, but they re...| Honza Pokorný
The New Kingmakers | The book about how developers took over the world
The book about how developers took over the world| The New Kingmakers
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
College Is Coming Apart - The Atlantic
Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.| The Atlantic
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.| www.chesterwisniewski.com
dear dad - by shani - skin contact
i wish I could write this letter in mandarin| skincontact.substack.com
Companies don’t make decisions – Manu
I feel kinda stupid for even saying this, but it’s probably worth saying anyway: companies are not people. Companies don’t make decisions. Companies …| manuelmoreale.com
Why Is Japan So Populated Despite So Little Land?
This week's premium article: What’s the Value of a Life?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
why I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it
When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:| notnottalmud.substack.com
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".| evanhahn.com
My last six months at Evernote, after Bending Spoons took over
I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote. I managed the team that built and operated Evernote’s notifications system, handling 110M messages in 2022. After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote…| alexkras.com
How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.| Nishant Joshi
Stop Pretending You Have Time – Before sleep, mostly
People waste an extraordinary amount of time behaving as though repentance is something reserved for later. There will be another Sunday, another confession,...| Before sleep, mostly
Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic
The $70 Xteink X3 puts Silicon Valley to shame.| The Atlantic
从《黑客帝国》看自由意志 – Notes Against Certainty
红药丸真的意味着自由吗？ 在最表层，《黑客帝国》是一个关于觉醒的故事。 Neo 原本生活在 Matrix 之中，以为自己是 Thomas Anderson，一个在现代城市里日复一日生活的普通打工人。直到 Morpheus 给了他一个选择：蓝药丸，回到原来的生活；红药丸，看见真相。 蓝药丸代表幻觉...| Notes Against Certainty
Imperial Colors Manifesto
Imperial Colors Manifesto| qum.cz
What the Floods Say About Xi Jinping - The Atlantic
China’s leader behaves more like an emperor than a man of the people.| The Atlantic
Exit the Cave - by Justin Andersun - Turtle's Pace
Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?| turtlespace.blog
Mind the gap – Sunbird
English feels like my native language seems like the quickest, truest way to tell a story but I’m often faced with, at the best of times, confusion and follo...| Sunbird
There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. A tool is thus any kind of thing that *lets you do something you wouldn't otherwise have been able to*. The important (for us) conceptual leap here is that when a tool works well, or isn't broken, it develops what Heidegger describes as a "ready-to-hand" quality: the tool fades into the backgroun...| deadSimpleTech
A bicycle for the mind
This article has been updated with extra links to relevant sources.| pulkomandy.tk
Building without predicting | Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.| Derek Sivers