This is super cool. I love using elfeed for my rss feeds, but really want a better solution for on my phone. I might have to test it out and see what I can learn :)
I’m happy to join in with the group of old men yelling at clouds for this particular issue. It’s crazy. Not only are phones distracting the drivers using them… they distract me - a phone-less driver who’s so obsessed with spotting all the drivers on their phones that it has become a distraction itself 😆.
In general, I’ve found that constraints do encourage innovation and creativity across any domain. I’m also super interested in the idea of a ‘modern PDA’ and what that would look like…
“Then, there are the key bindings. I use Emacs so the default key bindings are hardwired to my brain. On macOS, those bindings are not just in Emacs. They’re everywhere. It doesn’t matter what app I’m writing in, the bindings work. On Linux, not so much.”
This is such an under-appreciated feature I don’t think gets enough credit. It might be my favorite thing about macOS.
I try to apply a rule that if I do something, and don’t write about it—or otherwise generate external-facing evidence of it—it didn’t happen.
Good post. It touches on something I’ve been thinking about too. My recent website changes were mostly to lower the barrier for me to share more easily. Not quite there yet, but I hope to keep improving.