Hailing the all-knowing Hive Mind. Embodiment of collective knowledge, I beseech thee: how may I achieve the following wizardy through the Apple Shortcuts daemon?
Get URL stored in Data Jar
Open URL in Chrome
Download RSS file from URL
Open RSS file in Drafts
I’m currently using four social book cataloging services (Goodreads and StoryGraph, Literal, and Epilogue), which is bonkers. Or an embarrassment of riches, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, while reviewing my ever-expanding list of books, I noticed I’m reading a fair amount of print books. It’s a pleasant if awkward experience. I need perfect lighting to read a book. I can’t bump up the font size. I can’t highlight a word with my finger for a definition or sentences to be saved as notes that I will expand upon in Obsidian. The only reason I purchased these books is that they are not available as eBooks.
Those “Weird Sisters,” who mysteriously know everything? They can foretell anything, instantly, like Google? Plus, the witches make it all sound really great—only, in real life, it totally sucks? Well, those “Three Weird Sisters” are the “Internet of Things,” they’re “Ubiquitous Computation,” they’re “Ambient Findability.”
—Bruce Sterling, Gothic High-Tech
It’s frustrating that I can’t purchase Bruce Sterling’s Gothic High-Tech as an ePub, but print will do.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Living Torch by Kali Malone and Lô Borges‘s self-titled LP. 🎵
After much deliberation, my friend subscribed to Ulysses. While he was poking around, he discovered functions I knew nothing about. It was an educational night.