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Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds
Reeder has been my go-to app for reading RSS feeds for several years, on both macOS and iOS. I especially like it on my iPad Mini. The new Reeder is an ambitious redesign meant to be a one-stop shop for feeds from all sources, including RSS, social media and podcasts. It's an interesting idea, but it's very different from how I consume feeds. In particular, I prefer my RSS reading to be in the form of an inbox, rather than a stream. To be honest, I'm not quite sure who this new version is for.
I'm really glad that the older RSS-version is sticking around as Reeder Classic and I'll be sticking with that for the foreseable future.
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Departure Mono
Via Robin Rendle.
Yet another interesting monospace font. This one I would probably never use myself (unless I made a video game or some kind of throwback UI), but still a lovely experiment. The website is also a joy.
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Huerta Tipográfica
I found this lovely small type foundry that has a number of interesting fonts. I'm pretty satisfied with the combination of Source Serif and Source Sans that I'm using at the moment, but I can see a future with Alegreya HT and Alegreya Sans HT one day. Some of their fonts appear to be on sale as of this writing.
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Color Studio
Fiddling with color themes is one of the fun parts of designing your website. Though I'd like to think that I have a pretty good eye for design, I'm not always the best at picking colors and matching them with others. Color Studio is a beautiful and interesting tool that could make that job a little easier.
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Waste books
Part of the reason I'm rebuilding this website is to reconsider & redevelop the way I absorb, process and synthesize information in general. As the post (and referenced book) suggests, having three notebooks (in any form), might be a good way: the first to record, the second to organize, and the third to connect and explain.
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A case study in digital writing
A couple of interesting takeaways from this post on Heidegger, his writing methods and their relationship to modern, digital technology.
- Heidegger handwrote all his manuscripts, which amount to 100 published volumes with 30 more volumes of his correspondence. What am I doing with my life?
- Heidegger's instructions for publishing his works forbade any indexes so that readers would have to follow his train of thought and read everything in context. I understand and empathize with sentiment (especially given how much information is decontextualized these days), but the computer scientist in me who loves carefully organizing information for rapid reference and recall is horrified.
- Kurrentschrift tickles my little linguistic nerd brain. Though, I will admit that even as somehow who writes and enjoys writing cursive, it seems like a bit of pain to read.
- One of Heidegger's early ideas was that to be meant to be present , something that's particularly hard to do in an age of continuous digital distraction and "engagement".
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A conversation I have every month or so
Website: Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!