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🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️
It wasn't the first desktop publishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild the 40-year defunct #OMNI Magazine, resurrect a 40-year defunct software rivalry, and examine how the effects of the publishing revolution trickled through the public sector.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@impactology/116289053150470382
One theme that I keep detecting from this is that your mind sharpens when it experiences structured variation, so the educator's job is to expose them to variation by different constraints and feedback
Your mind sharpens when it is repeatedly placed in situations where it must notice:
What is changing
What is staying the same
I was in Cole Valley the other day and saw this neat shop called Simple, which sells soaps and lotions and stuff. The twist is, containers are sold separately, and you bring them back to refill rather than throwing out one pump-bottle after another.
I've heard of this existing elsewhere in the Bay Area, but this was the first I'd seen one in the City. It's right on the N-Judah line.
I don't currently need anything they have, but I do want to check it out at a time when they're open.
Always,
*always*,
keep circulating the tapes. https://www.avclub.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-lost-episode-k03-found
Many thanks to @engineersneedart.com for this entertaining discussion about the Macintosh classic Pararena!
Let's Chat with John Calhoun (about Pararena) - Soft Dorothy Software & Apple Computer #MARCHintosh
https://youtu.be/QpK6fYYr-6o
Bought some surface-cleaning powder to work on some crusted-on gunk on my kitchen floor.
Poured it into a mason jar, and spilled some… onto the kitchen floor.
One unplanned mopping session later, I can report that the cleaning powder worked as well as I'd hoped.
I made a suite of tools for working with CSV files: https://github.com/boredzo/csv_tools
You can do sorts, row counts, simple SELECTs, sharding by row or column count, and more. Almost everything is stream-based so as to work in constant memory.
The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic" that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone, give it away, and move on with your life...
Stone Tools
Raghav Agrawal
Ron's Computer Videos🖥️📼
JA Westenberg