Links from the past weeks

  • Apple as a boomer. Well, it is now a services company. And speaking of boomer, Reeder released a new app and I tried it for a while. Eventually I chose to keep to the classic Reeder. I am a creature of habit.


  • The fountain pen market seems to be very lively these days. Special releases galore, and this store special of a Vanishing Point looks delicious.


  • I keep hearing things about limiting the maximum your phone charges to, and I don’t see the point of artificially limiting your battery for a benefit that may or may not be shown to be true. Some people have run some of their own experiments.


  • What is the philosophy of Dune?

    I have not seen the movies, and I decided I will give the books a go. It is really fascinating, once you get past the made-up words, and the way the narration keeps changing between characters and the characters’ respective inner monologues.



  • An unprecedented level of drama in the fountain pen community resulted in this megathread that has some 3,000+ comments.


    Only time will tell whether the right judgment was passed, but for me, I have decided that there was no need to give this business any more of my business.



  • Methods of solving Japanese crosswords


    The Japanese call them nonograms, and I chanced across the puzzle book at Daiso. I was hooked, and they allowed me to make good use of my pencil collection.



  • The Last Tea Shop


    I was watching Brad Dowdy play one of those “journalling solo RPG things”, and decided to give this a go myself. Really fun.



  • Plonk It


    A really cute name for a guide to the very fun geoguessr game. Yes, I have been playing too many games lately.



  • Chimbridge Singlish Dictionary


    The site has a decent URL but the name of the site is a winner.



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