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On: Comedy Theory (2022)

[itsjustmath]

Once of my favorite visual breakdowns of comedy structure is the interactive site The Pudding did for an Ali Wong standup show a couple years back: https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/

On: This is the year of the RSS reader?

[itsjustmath]

I was looking for solutions to get RSS feeds of twitter and YouTube profiles and came across this useful tool: https://rssbox.fly.dev/

[kevincox → itsjustmath]

For YouTube, the channel page has auto-discovery links. So you should just be able to paste the channel URL (https://www.youtube.com/@examplechannel) into your feed reader and it will find the right link.

On: Freeform: a new app designed for creative collabor...

[itsjustmath]

Nice collection here: https://infinitecanvas.tools/

On: The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costl...

[itsjustmath]

You can! And there’s software on GitHub to allow you to transfer it to your computer (I’ve tested it successfully on my Mac)

On: How bad is my gas stove?

[itsjustmath]

Is a gas powered heater a source of nitrogen dioxide?

On: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)

[itsjustmath]

Bret Victor's 'Brief rant on the future of interaction design' is a worthwhile read on the same subject: http://worrydream.com/#!/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionD...

> Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.

On: Why Tokyo Works

[itsjustmath]

I’ve heard this too. Tokyo is my favorite place in the world that I’ve visited, but that’s as a gaijin — and I’m sure it’d be a different more repressive experience as a native.

On: Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

[itsjustmath]

Might be totally off base and unrelated, but I’m curious how often people are power cycling and if that provides any benefit

On: “User engagement” is code for “addiction”

[itsjustmath]

Humane tech has an informative page detailing how to “take control”: https://www.humanetech.com/take-control

On: Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

[itsjustmath]

I can't live without oh my zsh's git aliases: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Cheatsheet#git