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Thoughts on starting a digital garden

Years ago, I loved Mike Caulfield’s explanation of how many internet platforms today are streams, not gardens. This concept re-emerged in this tweet today. This is inspiring me to make my own digital garden. As I said in my twitter reply, there are so many amazing resources in this list of digital gardeners. I’m going …

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Hyperspace through thesaurus.com

Leave a browser window open with an entry from thesaurus.com. After about 30 seconds, this giant ad will automatically appear. I’m working on two monitors, so one of my monitors all of the sudden made me feel like I was traveling through hyperspace. *In a trance* “Yesssss, I want to jooooin IBM Clouuuuuud” Ironic that …

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Electricity cost calculator

We have a porch light that we used to keep on all the time. We would just forget to turn it off. Now that I have a smart bulb in there, it’s running a schedule (5pm to 5am), so I’m saving 12 hours of electricity. There’s a cool calculator that figures out how much money …

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Cracking the mystery of the unicode horizontal lines

The problem of special characters appearing as horizontal lines or blank boxes Sometimes people will use cute unicode characters as their Twitter name or Linkedin name. But then the text appears as a bunch of horizontal lines. Here’s a Linkedin user’s name as it appears in Chrome: What are those horizontal lines? Whenever I scroll …

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List of recommended podcasts, March 2021

Under five minutes:• Biz in 60 seconds• WSJ minute briefing• LensWork• Little Happier• 60-second science• 2-minute jazz Conversational style:• The BeanCast (marketing)• Circulating Ideas (librarians)• Happier with Gretchen Rubin (life hacks)• MBMBaM (comedy)• ReCode Media (tech/business)• Something You Should Know• Hidden Brain• Hidden Forces• 40 Minutes In The Old Testament• Christianity on Trial Prepared/organized/researched:• Bible Project (by far my #1 most …

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