Glenn Fleishman

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A printing and comics historian and, somehow, also a tech journalist, book editor, and graphic designer. You can order my book Six Centuries of Type & Printing at https://sixcent.info Find out about my work at glennf.com Two-time Jeopardy! champ.
How Comics Are Madehttps://howcomicsaremade.com/
The Glog Bloghttps://glog.glennf.com
Six Centuries of Type & Printinghttps://sixcent.info/
Glenn Projects Newsletterhttps://buttondown.com/glennf/archive/
Glenn Fleishman21h ago
Dogs and mail apps have the same short sweetness to them: we love them, they don’t stay with us forever, and then they’re gone. MailMaven is my new best friend. I hope it remains so for a long time to come. My review @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/mailmaven-review-an-email-nerds-best-friend/
MailMaven review: An email nerd’s best friend?

I don’t have a dog for the same reason it’s hard for me to get excited about email apps: the short, sweet lifespans make you love them so intensely and miss them forever when they&#8217…

Six Colors
Glenn Fleishman1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116444420101192729

And people still reading books.

Glenn Fleishman1d ago
Techmeme1d ago

Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/mozilla-used-anthropics-mythos-to-find-271-bugs-in-firefox/
http://www.techmeme.com/260421/p37#a260421p37

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.

WIRED
Glenn Fleishman1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/116444144933272997

Let people work from home.

Glenn Fleishman1d ago
kottke.org1d ago
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock. “This clock displays the current time alphabetically.” Totally deranged…I love it. https://boat.horse/clock/index.html
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

Glenn Fleishman1d ago
Does your iPhone, iPad, or Mac make noise when you don’t want it to—or expect it to? My thorough rundown on sound emissions over at @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/silence-listen-heres-how-to-control-sound-from-your-devices/
Silence! Listen, here’s how to control sound from your devices

Every Apple device has opinions about when it should make noise. Some of those opinions are reasonable; others will surprise you at 2 a.m.! If you’ve ever wondered why your iPhone alarm blare…

Six Colors
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦2d ago

We need electoral reform! 🙏

"To say 'Canadians voted for a minority' is to describe an intention that no voter expressed & no ballot could capture. It is fiction dressed as fact."

Canadians do not have a place on their ballot to vote for a party, or *for a governmrnt*. We vote locally. Only. With first-past-the-post, the governing party (often) in no way represents % of votes cast.

Ex: in Ontario, our Premier was re-elected (again 🤦‍♀️) by just 18% of eligible voters.
https://mstdn.ca/@lowies/116436399376230154

Mystery Lorbs (@[email protected])

This is a very important read, Canadians https://open.substack.com/pub/lenispooner/p/minority-mandate-myth-canada-parliament?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5piyu0

Mastodon Canada
Glenn Fleishman3d ago
What a fusilli idea. He tried to rigatoni his returns. He’s no capellini (angel hair). He’ll probably be sued, too, and face a tortellini. He had gnocchi idea what he was getting into. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/lego-theft-pasta-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cFA.4JUX.-aZ58pwG_8rZ&smid=nytcore-ios-share Will he face the ultimate penalty and be sentenced to mortadella? In the Big Penne, he’ll be farfalle from freedom. He could go stool pigeon and tagliatelle everything. But he might try to escape and bucatini out of there. But he’ll probably crash the getaway car and get in an orecchiette.
Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say

A California man was charged with grand theft after the police said he reaped about $34,000 in what an official called an “off the charts” pasta-and-switch scheme involving Lego kits.

The New York Times
Show threadGlenn Fleishman3d ago
Got an Aventon Level 3 Step Through! A great class of bike at the price—discount because the Level 4 has already replaced it and inventory is being sold through.
Show threadGlenn Fleishman4d ago
I expect I’ll eventually get a Leaf. I was planning on a 2022–2024 model year (for battery warranty and features), but the CHAdeMO charging issue would be a problem if we wanted to reliably and easily use it for longer drives (we have a second car in good shape). Now I’m thinking about waiting for 2026 models to get discounted later in the year. That model switched to NACS. But they’re so expensive relative to used, maybe due to the charging issue.