Author: David Demaree
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A Poke In The Eye
About a week ago, I noticed mild, subtle blurriness in my vision in my right eye, like smudges on a camera lens. On Monday I went to my eye doctor about it; they saw what looked like hemorrhaging on the retina and said I should see a specialist ASAP. It’s never good news when a…
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Make the most of any monitor with BetterDisplay
I’ve been using a wonderful, mostly-free, open-source Mac utility called BetterDisplay, it has been a game-changer, and I recommend it super super highly. (I say mostly-free because, while most features are free, you can buy an optional pro license for $15 that unlocks everything.) macOS is way worse than Windows 11 at managing multiple displays,…
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Monkeys & Typewriters
An AI luddite stops worrying and learns to have fun making weird stuff with robots.
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
How I learned to stop worrying and love “Elden Ring”
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Why are webcams so cursed?
Reviewers say the camera on Apple’s new display is horrible. Not surprised, tbh.
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2 weeks with the Fuji X100V
I got a new camera for summer vacation shooting. Fuji’s fixed-lens compact is a lot of fun.
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Bird, Caged
Scaling back Twitter before my brain gets any mushier
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“The right words on climate have already been said”
Sarah Miller writes about how it feels to talk and write about climate change now that the first wave of climate disasters have begun: I probably talked for 11 minutes straight. I told her I didn’t have anything to say about climate change anymore, other than that I was not doing well, that I was…
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Embracing ‘Read-Only’ Mode During Covid
My friend Sally Kerrigan wrote this last year, about accepting that a pandemic is not the best time to be creative, and deciding to intentionally enter a “read-only” mode: It seems like writing should be the easy thing to do as a quarantine project. I mean, all the ingredients every introverted writer dreams of are…