The humble hyperlink that changed the world
https://youtu.be/3Va3oY8pfSI This is a great video that highlights how the simple hyperlink has revolutionised how we work with information. It made the Web possible!
Category archives: Useful stuff
I keep wanting to buy more Field Notes notebooks …
I keep wanting to buy more Field Notes notebooks, but I'm not going through the ones I do order fast enough to justify buying more.
Unfashionably still an Atom editor fan
I've loved the idea of the Atom editor since I saw the initial announcement video three years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aEiVwBAdk I used it on and off as a text editor since it was released. Sure, it was sluggish, but I didn't think too much of it. I used Atom for a text-based productivity system a couple…
Creating good through open source
I really like videos like this: https://youtu.be/HzZxcfVn_08 Open source as a way of doing things has such amazing potential to make our world so much better. Watching videos like this tend to prompt me to revisit my calendar and try find regular blocks of time I can dedicate to my dusty coding projects.
Great collection of Python packages
I enjoy the Talk Python to Me podcast. Episode 181 was a discussion about a great collection of Python packages. Even though I don't have an immediate use for most of them, I've captured them for later reference because there's some really useful stuff in there! Listeners often tell me one of the really valuable…
Pretty excited about Gutenberg
Gutenberg 4.0 has arrived. I'm planning to spend a lot more time using it in the week ahead. I'm really looking forward to it rolling out as the default WordPress editor! https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/11/whats-new-in-gutenberg-11th-october/ It works pretty well on mobile too! 😁
Scientific papers shouldn’t be published as PDFs
You can now read important Jewish texts like the Talmud online
Sefaria is a free online resource for Jewish texts, specifically the Talmud, which (amazingly) wasn't previously easily availabl