If you have a blog and you’re not making any money off it, for crying out loud, just put your full post in the RSS feed – let us read it without having to use some gizmo tool to view it in its entirety. We’ll check out your website anyway, we probably already know it, but – for heaven’s sake! – forget about the stats and just let us read your content. If we read, it’s because we like what you write. Leave that to us.
It’s impressive how writing a blog and feeling responsible for your readers – no matter how little you know them – can make our brains stick to promises we’d normally break without a second thought. Kev Quirk wrote about this recently, discussing his weight and his desire to lose weight.
Maybe, for the first time in my life, after trying dozens of them and reselling them or sending them back because they hurt or bothered me behind the ears due to the temples of my glasses, maybe I’ve found the over-ear headphones that, in addition to having an exceptional sound for my expectations, don’t hurt behind the ears: the Major IV by Marshall. What a treat. And what a hell of a basses.
Even the most foolish entrepreneur today thinks he can replace consultants, technicians, lawyers, and accountants with a credit card and a subscription costing just twenty dollars a month.
In February, my gratitude subscription was expressed with a donation ($10) to Johan Sanneblad, lead developer of Notebook Navigator.
In my professional experience, I’ve often dealt with corporate communication. Many users don’t know what an email is, don’t know how to write, don’t know how to reply, or – even worse – sometimes don’t even realize they need to reply. The inability to communicate within an organization, both internally and, above all, externally, is a hurdle that absolutely must be overcome.
One thing about AI is that I use it. I use it for work, but also for personal stuff1. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I also wrote about it here (in Italian): I don’t remember how to do some things that I now do with a calculator, and sooner or later I’ll probably forget how to do things that I now do with an LLM. All in all, it’s not a big deal. The serious thing is that I had distanced myself from Google.
Over the past two years, I’ve started this my virtual subscription to projects for which I express deep gratitude. Projects related to applications I use, or blogs I follow, or podcasts I listen to, and so on. I wrote about them for 2024 and 2025.