jslabovitz

5 ms·

1.
by jslabovitz 8mo ago
Ugh, so sorry to hear that. But I've had the same. I recently got a grip for my phone (TELESIN Master Grip). It gives me a physical shutter button, as well as a much better ergonomic hold on the phone, and a tripod thread to attach my
2.
by jslabovitz 9mo ago
As someone with a workshop full of DeWalt tools, this was a bit concerning! However, looking into the Dewalt situation (dunno about the other brands), it seems like only certain higher-end tools have Tool Connect+ built-in. (Dewalt's w
3.
by jslabovitz 9mo ago
Looks great! I've subscribed.
4.
by jslabovitz 9mo ago
This looks great, but honestly without an RSS/Atom feed, I wouldn't use it. Also, please add a light mode. Some of us have visual disabilities that make such a high-contrast dark mode unreadable.
5.
by jslabovitz 10mo ago
I think this vague term of 'use' isn't being very helpful here. Does that mean actively posting original content? Commenting? Liking? Sharing? Just scrolling/reading? Seems all those modes have a much different involveme
6.
by jslabovitz 10mo ago
I've used Averia (Serif Libre, specifically) for at least a decade as my primary font for email, web pages in 'reader' mode, writing long-form text, etc. I find it extremely legible, and even calming. Ironically, I've be
7.
by jslabovitz 1y ago
A few weeks back I was messing around with Claude and some sample prompts, and happened to use the term 'xyzzy', and other terms from the classic ADVENTURE. Out of the blue, Claude started presenting itself as the game. I started
8.
by jslabovitz 1y ago
Having this author as a travel companion would be a nightmare. > In the many great cities I have actually lived and worked in, I would never consider spending whole days walking. How utterly strange! I can't think of a city I'v
9.
by jslabovitz 1y ago
I traveled there in 2008, and had that precise experience! I always wondered whether I'd just been there on a particularly excellent night, or if it was a normal happening. I'm so glad to hear it's the latter!
10.
by jslabovitz 1y ago
This sounds wonderful! This is exactly how I did design my education, back in the 1980-1990s: self-driven, curiosity-based, highly experiential, with (informal) advisers and mentors. I never got a degree at all, and have never regretted i
11.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
Dometic used to have small absorption fridges. (I had one in a tiny house, and it was totally silent.) Not sure if they do nowadays. (Peltier effect fridges have taken up some of the steam these days, but I'm pretty sure those have con
12.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
I don't have hyperacusis or tinnitus, but I am extremely sensitive to noise, especially fans, engines, pumps, and anything else that makes percussive or resonant noise. I am fortunate to live quite remotely in the countryside, with no
13.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
Over decades of travel, I've found that one of the best ways to experience a culture and a place is to learn how to cook the local food. I guess you could do that through cooking classes, etc., but I've found a whole new dimension
14.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
I agree, and I'm American, not Japanese. That segment was surprising, disturbing, and quite upsetting to me in its unnecessary violence. I literally ended up putting my hands up to my eyes, like I do when I reach a disturbing scene in
15.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
'A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars' https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-g... Less about the specifics of the battles being mentioned, but rather: 1. Battles
16.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
I work on a lot of projects related to vintage/obsolete technology. It's not at all uncommon for me to research something and find that all the links are broken, and the data is long gone. So developing a sense of information frag
17.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
> Anecdotaly, we have several friends who cannot digest homogenized milk, but do well with raw milk. We are not sure if this is due to the makeup of the milk fat or due to the (usually harmless) microbiota in the milk. I'm very inte
18.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
From the article: > We can advise patients that the diet on the day before a colonoscopy may include the following foods: cheese, eggs, milk, white bread, olive oil, butter, beef, chicken, fish, white rice, vanilla ice cream, and plain y
19.
by jslabovitz 2y ago
The excellent book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Harold McGee) has sections on major food groups, along with some incredible stories of how those foods have been preserved in the past — many of which involve so
20.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I've been using Void for a couple of months now on a Raspberry Pi-based project. I'm impressed by its balance between simplicity and functionality. Namely, it doesn't have systemd (rather `runit`) so it's a lot easier to
21.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I highly doubt there's much genuine 'design' being done on these kinds of UIs, and certainly there's no value in trying to universally coordinate UI choices (minus, perhaps, the global '1/0' symbol for ON&
22.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I have never had the urge to have children. And whether consciously or not, I've never dated people who wanted kids. I don't know if my life is vastly different because of this choice. But I've always loved travel and explo
23.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I'm not going to summarize the article for you, but I'll tell you a story that actually relates more to the cruelty of crypto than the article does. A friend of mine was sort of a big deal for a moment in the adult NFT space. It n
24.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
Look up 'limerance.' There are many online resources, including a few good subreddits. You may not have it, or may not have it strongly, or it may come and go — but some people are highly affected by having limerant obsessive feel
25.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
For four years, I ran something similar to this: an artist residency, in rural Appalachia. I charged a low fee to folks who came, and kept the experience fairly simple and self-catered. However, it really wasn't sustainable. People who
26.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I use an analog system that requires nothing but half-sized white index cards, laid out in a grid on a table. No lists, no piles! Every task has a separate card, described simply in a short actionable phrase, written in pen, in the center o
27.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
While not exactly ‘ancient,’ I believe that typesetting machines were an example of early (pre-digital) computers. I actually wrote a paper about it in American Printing History Association’s journal _Printing History,_ issue 21, 2017. htt
28.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
If you drag a message out from Apple Mail, say to the desktop, it will save that message as a .eml file. And if you inspect it, it's simply the raw message itself — as it would be in, say, a Maildir folder. You can literally 'cat&
29.
by jslabovitz 3y ago
I did this too! Not on a notepad, but on a Royal typewriter, age 10. My dad had a telecommunications consulting business, based on a remote Univac mainframe he rented time on. He'd bring his Texas Instruments Silent 700 printer-termina
30.
by jslabovitz 7y ago
I’ve mostly heard the term ‘diorama’ in the context of museum exhibits. The diorama mode seems to have fallen out of favor, replaced by more interactive (and often digital) and interpretive installations. Modelmaking as a hobby has been a s

More ›