Amazon’s Kindle Vella is a new (about a month old as I write this) serialized fiction service. I had the first four episodes of my Vella, The Dragon of DC available on launch day and posted episode five a few days later. So I’m coming to you with my perspective as both a Vella author and reader. I’m …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-16 How to avoid confusing explanations Julia Evans, who is a great explainer, has written a post about patterns she’s noticed in explanations she finds confusing. She goes on to clearly explain this set of patterns. The debate on a third shot Andy Slavitt breaks down the issues of a …

Backlinks 2021-08-16 I like the simple answers in this article by BF Nagy that looks to clear up myths around Climate Change solutions. 2021-08-09 This past week, the latest IPCC report on Climate Change came out and the news was bad in terms of projections, but there are still many things we can do. Hank Green …

Recently added: Variants dashboard Dashboards Covid Vaccinations Covid Act Now — Dashboard of how well each state has the epidemic under control. NY Times dashboard another nice visualization CDC dashboard of variants. As I write this, delta makes up 80% of the cases, but there will likely be other variants of …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-09 How we fix the climate This past week, the latest IPCC report on Climate Change came out and the news was bad in terms of projections, but there are still many things we can do. Hank Green laid out what we can do. In his video, he starts with carbon pricing, and then gets into the wide …

Backlinks 2021-08-09 This week, James Long wrote about and released absurd-sql, an implementation of SQLite based on SQL.js (actual sqlite compiled to WASM) and a backend that works on IndexedDB and is faster than IndexedDB. 2021-05-15 sqliteviz is a progressive web app that lets you create Plotly visualizations …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-02 Firemap The US government provides a fire map to show where wildfires and smoke plumes are located right now. The costs of selling COVID fear James Surowiecki wrote about coverage of CDC’s new mask guidance and the underlying COVID-19 data and how the press did not do a good job …

Notes for the week of July 26, 2021 Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers Steve M. Carroll has a handy collection of tips for pronouncing non-English names, with a specific focus on pronouncing those names with sounds we have in English. Some of the commenters on Hacker News have tips of their own, …

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does.

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does. 2021-04-05 Lots of love for Svelte and Tailwind. …