End User

"As Haphazard as Possible"

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:30:23 +0000

I have no idea what the word "podcast" means to anyof you anymore.

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Best of 2021 Mix

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:44:37 +0000

What I think about music shouldn’t particularly matter to you, but I did actually bother to gather all of the Odesli links for my Best of ➋⓿➋➊ Apple Music Playlist, and I hope you’ll follow my example.

(This list is in order of the playlist, not this mix. Sorry.)

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Assorted Twitter Spaces Feedback

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:51:40 +0000

A collection of Twitter Spaces recordings I’ve accumulated over the past few months, starting with my FIRST EVER direct conversation with employees of Twitter, Incorporated.

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e_n_d_ _ _u_s_e_r

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:05:21 +0000

An audio programme about consumer technology… Recorded more than two thousand miles East of Silicon Valley… Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/davidblue/support

The Radical Minutia

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

(EDIT: Audio has truly been fixed now... Sorry about that.)

On Saturday, September 4th, I scheduled a Twitter Space entitled "How to Explain iOS 15 to Your Mom" a few hours in advance, not necessarily expecting any speakers or guests to show up, but an old friend and two new ones did! They indulged me for a near-2 hour conversation about a whole lot and I really appreciate it.

Guests

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Why I Didn't Follow You Back

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:35:49 +0000

Twitter

The Twitter Follow Explanation Gist (and identical Medium post.)

Blocked by Kara Swisher, which was only resolved thanks to (yet again) Casey Newton
“3 Reasons Your Twitter Follower Ratio Is More Important Than You Know | Inc.com”

If you follow more people than follow you, what you are in essence saying to that person is "I followed all these people, but only some of them found me interesting enough to follow me back."
Not only that, but you are also saying "Yes, I may have recently followed you, but don't take it too personally, I like to follow a lot of people, so really, the fact that I cared enough to follow you doesn't mean I am genuinely interested in what you have to say."
Not doing great on the first impression scale...

"Every social media platform has limits."

https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1357997726437412869

Clubhouse

The "underrated rappers" room which was still overwhelmingly dominated by Big KRIT.
NO THOUGHTS, HEAD EMPTY - The Third Culture Kids and their 100% sincere enchantment with the doge meme.
"Metadata Mondays" From "The 808 Wave"
"Clubhouse Feels like a Party" | The New Yorker

There was something pleasant about meandering from conversation to conversation, as if I had walked into my own home to find a conference in full swing. But I also wondered, Why did I let all of these people into my house?
...
It is hard to shake the feeling that everyone on Clubhouse is selling something: a company, a workshop, a show, a book, a brand.
"The Future of Social Media Is All Talk" | WIRED

CMS Goss

Ill's incredibly innovative implementation of WordPress as a Static Site Generator!!!

RSS

The latest version of the RSS Specification is 2.0.11, which was published on March 30th, 2009.

Upcoming/In Progress

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Brad Varol, Father of Whyp

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:15:43 +0000

My conversation with Bradley Varol - a London-based developer who loves Hardstyle, drives an imported Toyota Chaser, and has bigger aspirations for his two-month-old audio sharing service than Vocaroo, Clyp, and Instaudio, combined.

Support Whyp via Ko-fi.

We talked a lot about the future, but I think it'd be worth my time to thoroughly analyze Whyp's usefulness in the present, which you'll see soon on both Extratone and The Psalms. If you want to really go deep, you can follow and comment on its Issue in The Psalms' GitHub Repository.

Once again, any thoughts of yours even remotely adjacent to the subject would make my day - do reach out!

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тнαиkfυl fσя bαиdcαмρ 2018 мix

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:27:02 +0000

I thought it was lost forever!

This test render is all that remains of a mix I intended to spend a lot of time on in 2018 to accompany my big ole' essay: Bandcamp: Streaming's Secret Savior.

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Digital Academia Whacked

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:53:47 +0000

I have returned to school! ...and commented on The Social Dilemma, bought a desktop, broke Windows, installed WordPress, used a Kindle (ew,) started a Digital Magazine Collection, browsed the web using Microsoft products, and read a wonderful book about the history of word processing.

That sound you're hearing at the beginning is one I made exclusively using sounds from Windows 98.
End User has made a total of $1.58 to date! Incredible.
Reporting From the Digital Classrom of 2020
You've Just Watched 'The Social Dilemma'...
Indulging Once More in Digital Excess and Revelations of Network Withdrawals (which is exactly two years old, today.)
What The Fuck (Yes, I've been tinkering with yet another WordPress installation. Sorry.)
Digital Gardens
Creative Wellness
💔Finally Broke Windows
Varmilo VA108M
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
Microsoft Browsing Review

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Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips

Sat, 02 May 2020 03:59:08 +0000

Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips and an interesting new medium for interviews

This episode, I discuss Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips - some of the software and lesser-known methodologies I've discovered over the years of Just Fucking Around.

Interview with write.as Community Manager CJ Eller about Markdown, my tips post, Extratone, and all the stuff I've been doing on the web.
Write.As
Enpass
CopyQ CopyQ Demo
Windows 10 Basic Shortcuts
"Microsoft’s new Spotlight-like launcher for Windows 10 will arrive in May" | The Verge
Markdown
Bear "Why I finally replaced Evernote with Bear" | The Verge
Typora
OBS
Compact OS

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Microsoft Designed Its New Surface Laptop 2 Specifically for Me

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:50:06 +0000

After living and working with Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2 since its release, I've realized (intellectually) that it's more suited to my personal use than any other machine I've ever used, but my emotional brain has remained just far enough behind to stay out of the way of saying something useful.

Spare yourself and just read my full written review instead.

Resources/Further Reading

The Vergecast on the release of the original Surface Laptop, last year. "There's not a whole huge gap between an iPad Pro and the new Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S." (Windows 10 S is an entirely different issue that we can thankfully leave in the past.)
"The best computer is one you hate a little" - The Outline (I must find Windows 10's ignorance almost as charming as I found Windows XP's thoughtfulness.)
"Microsoft offers up Windows 10 1809 to nervy seekers" - ComputerWorld
"Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 review: If it ain't broke" - by Dan Seifert for The Verge +Their review of the first model.
"Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 is the best laptop of 2018" - Mashable +Microsoft's website page for the Surface Laptop 2 includes a quote from this review front and center.
"Spec-Down: Apple MacBook Air vs. Microsoft Surface Laptop 2" - PCMag
"The 2018 MacBook Air is good, but not great" - Mashable
"Microsoft Surface Review" - by Joshua Topolsky for The Verge back in October 2012.
"Microsoft's Surface Laptop feels beautiful" - The Verge
"The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV" - The Outline
"With the Surface, Microsoft just started writing its next chapter" - by Joshua Topolsky for The Verge
"What OEMs desperately need to learn from Microsoft's Surface" - ZDNet

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Mastodon's Big Moment, 20 Months Later

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:36:01 +0000

Amid some life changes, I took the opportunity to revisit Mastodon as I've recently realized how much more it has to offer than Twitter does, these days. A previously-unpublished interview from April 2017 with the federated social network's creator, Gargron and a replay of Futureland's subsequent Mastodon episode.

Read the full essay and written interview.

World Wide Web | Twitter | Federated | Telegram | Discord

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Siri Shortcuts Are iOS 12's Most Profound Addition

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 07:35:44 +0000

Though iOS 12 has technically been in consumers’ hands for half a year, its greatest implications seem to have gone relatively unnoticed.

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Revelations of Network Withdrawals

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:28:49 +0000

A month without reliable home internet was less sabbaticle, more mild psychological self-torture, but at least I can vouch for Opera Turbo, Telegram X, and mobile.twitter.com. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/davidblue/support

Recovering the Magic in Computers

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:01:19 +0000

What is "real" authority in technology? What happens when a hardcore Magic Realist spends every possible minute of his life browsing the Internet? How can our old terms possibly pertain to anything effectively in the now when most of them were formed pre-2011? These conversations were long overdue, and I'm delighted to bring them back. Thank you for accommodating me! I look forward to hearing from you. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/davidblue/support