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 Fleishman1d ago
The latest issue of my newsletter, True to Glenn’s Type, is out! This installment is “Alphabet Soup”: four sets of type thrown into or found in the murky depths of the Thames, English Channel, and Sâone in France. Become a premium subscriber to read ($3/mo. requested) https://buttondown.com/glennf/archive/alphabet-soup/
Alphabet Soup

Welcome to this month's installment of True to Glenn's Type! Thanks to everyone who backed Flong Time, No See. I already uncovered some new flong ground even...

True to Glenn’s Type
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Gerry McGovern2d ago

During a global drought of historic proportions:

“Between 2015 and 2019 copper mines withdrew 13.6 trillion litres of water, with water use increasing at a rate 50% higher than copper production.”

University of Stockholm’s Stockholm Resilience Center
https://research.wu.ac.at/en/publications/increasing-water-use-in-global-copper-production-threatens-freshw/

Since 1900, the energy needed to produce a unit of copper is up 16-fold.

That's diesel, you know. Diesel.

But it's all green and clean.

Increasing Water Use in Global Copper Production Threatens Freshwater Availability

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Glenn Fleishman3d ago
Thanks to visitor submissions, FindYourTag now lists *60* unique devices with Apple Find My Network crowdsourced support, from tiny cheap trackers to $3,500 bicycles! https://findyourtag.net
FindYourTag — Every Find My Network Device, Compared

Compare every Apple Find My Network compatible device from all major brands. Search, filter, and sort AirTags, wallet trackers, luggage tags, earbuds, and more.

FindYourTag
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NewsThump4d ago
International diplomacy at its finest.
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Liam Proven4d ago

I Decompiled the White House's New App

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

(By "thereallo" -- https://thereallo.dev/?explore=about )

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Thereallo
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Glenn Fleishman5d ago
I got tired of not having a Wikipedia because of my…notability…so I wrote a Not Wikipedia page that I’m self-hosting. https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2026/3/30/not-wikipedia-entry
Not Wikipedia Entry

I had an entry at Wikipedia for years, then it was removed in what I think was a 1–1 vote. Big ups for the person opposed to my notability . People have tried in the years since to add an article about me back, but they continue to be challenged on that issue. You’re supposed to be covered by med

Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Glenn Fleishman5d ago
I got tired of not having a Wikipedia because of my…notability…so I wrote a Not Wikipedia page that I’m self-hosting. https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2026/3/30/not-wikipedia-entry
Not Wikipedia Entry

I had an entry at Wikipedia for years, then it was removed in what I think was a 1–1 vote. Big ups for the person opposed to my notability . People have tried in the years since to add an article about me back, but they continue to be challenged on that issue. You’re supposed to be covered by med

Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Glenn Fleishman5d ago
Flying so high like some guy taking meds in the sky, it’s my pass on how to deal with Apple’s Medications feature and changing time zones. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/time-for-your-meds-mr-fleishman/ @sixcolors
Time for your meds, Mr. Fleishman

I have a mostly “love/not-hate” relationship with the Medications feature in the iPhone Health app. Having accrued and had treated a variety of conditions over the years, I found Medica…

Six Colors
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Glenn Fleishman6d ago
At an antiques mall, I encountered a piece of Hamilton Mfg. Co. furniture I’ve never seen before. It didn’t seem type-related, because it was flat wood. Metal or stones are typically used for type galleys.
Show threadGlenn Fleishman6d ago
The metal rim on four side is screwed in to help reduce warping. The boards are used when putting a book in a nipping press on top and bottom of a bound and glued book with the lip in the space between spine and book cover with a case bound (hard cover) book.