Links #125

Mike Grindle on his one big text file. I don’t know that I’ll do this, but it’s still fun to read about. (At work I have a handful of text files — a to-do list, a backburner list, a log, a list of what I did each day. For personal stuff, I use my home-crafted apps since I want to be able to use my phone.)

Steph Ango on knowing what to remove. Yes!

Robert Birming on timeline pages (via Tracy). Hey look, convergent evolution. Fun to see.

Maxime Heckel on dithering and retro shaders. Nice writeup, and the final result is nostalgically fun.

Andrea Anderson on ope, which turns out to not be from the Midwest after all. (Until I read this article, by the way, I had no idea that I myself say ope. I do.)

Suw Charman-Anderson on genre-hopping as a writer and on being a generalist. This is good.

Times New Roman regular vs. bold. I had no idea the bold is so different structurally! (Flat serifs, etc.)

David Epstein interviews Evan Ratliff about AI voice clones and Evan’s Shell Game podcast.

Ziyang Chen, Daniel Geng, and Andrew Owens on visual spectrograms that look like images but can also be played as sounds. Ha. These are cool. (Gimmicky, sure, but there’s room in the world for cool gimmicks.)