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Numbers for understanding cities

September 19th, 2022

Whenever I think about physical places, I find myself coming back to a few types of numbers again and again. I've collected these into spreadsheets so that I can reference them more easily, and I figured they might be useful to others too: Population ...

Contemplating calendars

July 8th, 2019

My friends say that my calendaring practice is atypical (and mock me incessantly for it). They're not wrong, but I'll contend that most people underutilize this ubiquitous tool. A calendar is not just a reminder device for keeping track of external ev...

Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor

May 12th, 2019

For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its users never print out most of their documents. Of course it does make sense for "Print layout" to be an option. Many people do print docs, and student...

Thoughts are never finished, only shared

December 28th, 2018

TODOs before publishing"Transpose" the matrix. Maybe start with a quick 1-5 rundown, but then do a deep dive on each rather than constant context switching.Little demos of the specific features Diff from previous versions. Scroll wheel?Comment + credit...

Footnotes and anchors test

December 28th, 2018

This has a footnote.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . # This has an anchor "Science is a way of thinking more than it is a body of knowledge," said Carl Sagan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fo...

Comparison of text editing methods

August 31st, 2018

Given how much time I spend producing text, I've spent shockingly little of it considering the tradeoffs of various modes to input it. I had a vague sense that typing is faster than handwriting and that, despite this fact, I still prefer writing draft...