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Eggleston is impeccably dressed in what he wears every day: a dark suit that he tells me was made for him on Savile Row, highly polished black shoes, a white shirt and an untied bow tie around the neck. He smells like bourbon and body lotion. He wears a Cartier watch, two minutes slow.
Cartographist is an experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing Instead of opening new windows (with cmd-click), Cartographist spawns horizontally scrollable panes. Instead of forcing you to find things in a linear history, Cartographist shows a tree-structured outline of your browsing.
A few years ago, I got a Kobo Libra 2 to improve my traditional long-form reading (books!) habit. It wasn't my first e-reader, but it's been the first indispensable one – pleasing-to-the-eye reading experience, hardware page-turn buttons, long battery life, and an effortless integration with my local library. I especially love the screen technology. After a lifetime of sitting in front of LCD screens, it's just such a relief relaxing with an E-Ink book. Somehow, though, I totally skipped out on investigating E-Ink tablets.
I decided to try out a few of the most popular ones. They all provide reading experiences (PDFs, ePubs, etc.) but I'm most interested in them for their writing experience. I'd like to take notes and mark up books and articles. Writing on these devices is a trip – it's a totally different physical experience compared to frictionless stylus on iPad. Some of them even have color E-Ink displays. But the software experience... leaves a lot to be desired. They're mostly all Android-based forks with custom app launchers. The workflow to actually do things on all of them is so byzantine, often counterintuitive. Playing with these devices will immediately make you appreciate just how refined the user experience and software integration on iOS is.
I'm currently trying these out:
It pains me that there's no single Goldilocks device for my needs. I feel like I'd be happy with the reMarkable as my sole device if it had just a bit more functionality. For now, I'm trying them out in the contexts where they shine brightest: the reMarkable at my desk for UI sketching, the Supernote for quick notes and carrying around with me, and the BOOX for when I want to read or write something in color with a backlight. I can't imagine juggling between these three long-term, but we'll see where things land.
The one thing I know for sure: my Kobo's not going anywhere.
A remarkable curated collection of historical public domain images.
My first computer was a Mac Plus. I've always had a nostalgia-softened spot in my heart for 1-bit graphics. I'd like to capture the detailed black & white look of old Mac games in a realtime 1st person game.
A fascinating look at the development of award winning game Return of the Obra Dinn (2018).
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