I read this essay a few years back and it struck a loud chord. I was a bit annoyed at myself a few days ago when I wanted to re-read it but could not remember the author or title. Thankfully, Google led me in the right direction once I constructed a sane query.
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The Abolition of Work
December 28, 2006 – 4:23 pm
Cream: For those who can’t stomach raw Vim
I’ve used the vi text editor for 13 years now. Under Windows, I’ve used vi clones in several flavors:
The now-defunct shareware editor “Lemmy” which I’d licensed
The port of Elvis to Windows
and finally, when I’ve been able to tolerate it for very long, Vim
I’ve always been ecstatic that Vim exists. I’m more ecstatic lately [...]
December 12, 2006 – 5:03 pm
Crud. What’s that word…
OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.
Check out the example’s at OneLook’s reverse dictionary page to see the useful stuff you can do there [...]
November 15, 2006 – 10:11 am
Bistream Vera Sans Mono: Monospaced heaven
I’ve poked around at most of the “Best Programmer Font” lists on the net over the last year or two and have been pretty disappointed with the results. Quite a few of the top picks are non-scalable bitmap fonts that are painful to look at. When Microsoft released the new fonts (or some [...]
October 2, 2006 – 11:52 am
The “Ongoing” Bookmark Folder
On any given week I have several bookmarks which will likely have a short lifetime: Forum threads that will likely run their course in a week or two, eBay auctions that will be over in a few days, etc. I’ve found a decent way to handle these bookmarks with Firefox and figured I’d [...]
September 21, 2006 – 3:43 pm
Amaznode Amazon product similarity visualization
Amaznode is a visualization of products similar to your search query. I’ve found it much more useful than Amazon’s offerings for exploring products or topics similar to the one I am interested in. Give it a minute to populate itself once you enter a search term. I tried “forced induction” this morning [...]
September 11, 2006 – 12:49 pm