Silence

I have not written much on my Scribbles blog for the last few weeks. One primary reason is that I have been writing less in general. Another is that I am trying to get my main website to work as I want it to. I don't like writing to be hampered because I can't decide where to go. That also means I am writing a lot there—or at least trying to—while I regain my writing mojo. If you want to follow along, follow my main RSS feed. Meanwhile, this place might remain silent as I figure things out. I continue...

A titleless post is not a micropost. By definition, a micropost is "a very short posted message." The hyponym is tweet or toot. Microposts are generally short, but titleless posts need not be. They can ramble along for as long as the thought warrants. Calling a titleless post a micropost is like calling a subject-less email an SMS. Both lack a particular property but are inherently distinct. Microblogging requires a different mindset, one that I have yet to master. However, microblogging is still blogging—it's in the name, after all. A short post is still a blog post. The reverse, though,...

What I like about Arc Browser

I changed my default web browser to Arc from Safari a few days ago. I had a vague idea why I did that. “I have moved back to Arc again. The experiment with Safari lasted a couple of months — it’s fine and I would love to support non-Chrome browsers. But there are so many minor tweaks in Arc that once you experience, you just can’t go back.” I wanted to expand on the tweaks I enjoy that Arc brings to the default browser experience. So, here's the list below, in no specific order. 1. With no toolbars and easy...

Back to Kagi

Around three months ago, I published my thoughts on Kagi and why I decided not to pay for the service. About two months ago, I got frustrated with the free search engine of my choice—DuckDuckGo—and subscribed to the starter plan with Kagi. The experience with DuckDuckGo was frustrating. Here is my observation from a few weeks back then on DDG. “DuckDuckGo is dying a death by a thousand cuts. The search results are becoming increasingly dismal, and ads are creeping more into the list that matters. It's becoming painful to use by the day. I didn't think I would ever...