Do you like postcards? I'll mail you one of my postcards for free. The postcards have beautiful stories and poems from fediverse writers, and color art on the front. The latest card has The Blessing of the Weeds by @asakiyume, and the next one has a story by @amin.

I use a manual typewriter to make these postcards, and I date-stamp them at the post office.

You may sign up at https://nantucketlit.com/postcards

#coffee and #gardening people!

I've got a good solid pint of used coffee grounds at this point. I thought I'd try to get them to a community garden as composting. What else could I do with the grounds?

Steve Jobs was known to call the personal computer a "bicycle for the mind." Humans are tool-builders, and the computer can extend your thinking just as a bike can extend your locomotive ability. The original name for the Macintosh was actually 'Bicycle.'

I've looked at LLMs with an open mind, and I've concluded they do not fit the bicycle metaphor. They do not extend human thinking, they substitute for it.

New blog post: The final part of my interview with writer @atgonzalez. We discuss his work in the anthology Overscan, his favorite story from the book, and his latest book, Galapagos Larvae.

https://nantucketlit.com/blog/2026/04/2026-04-01_an_interview_with_at_gonzalez,_part_3.html

Links to AT's new book in the blog! #WriterInterview

Okay. I think I have enough of a program that I could make an ebook on the Apple II.

Now you might ask, "Didn't he do that already?" This is a completely new program. It is not as automated as the last one, but the text this one produces will look so much better.

We're going far beyond the default characters in ROM. I'm talking proportional spacing, justified paragraphs, text alignment, bold, italic, special characters, all compatible from the Apple II+ upward.

I'm a novice at typography, so this was new to me.

It seems that if you print a character twice, and offset it by one line the second time, it makes some pretty nice bold text.

I am trying to implement a shadow-text effect. Each line is written twice with expanded kerning, and the second time it is offset by 3 lines. I am trying to decide if three lines is too illegible.

I have also attached a screenshot from an IBM Executive typewriter manual, which explains the idea of shadow text.