I’m sitting in front of a Power Mac “Quicksilver” model from 2000, running Mac OS 9.2.2 atop a 733 MHz G4 processor. As a certified computer junkie, I own several systems, but this one is almost certainly my favorite. The bong rings and the happy Mac face
Social media platforms provide value to independent creatives by allowing them to fully focus on creating instead of having to figure out how to share their work. Sadly, however, these same platforms reduce creative artists to content creators. When we label artwork — be it short- or long-form writing, illustration, photography,
Our computers are faster than ever. If you’re an Apple user, you know how incredibly efficient and powerful their M‑series devices are. Computers are more capable than ever; Framework’s laptops are as customizable as building a PC from scratch. Tinkerers with 3D printers and a penchant for
Markdown is one of the main reasons I write today. It is what's known as an LML; a lightweight markup language, which allows you to simply write in plain text, and use simple syntax structures with symbols like asterisks (*) and brackets ([]) to represent common formatting options found in
I wrote my first blog article in October of 2007. Lifestyle blogging was just becoming trendy. While I had had a website since the late 90s, I had never tried to write for others before. My site had been intended mostly for my own content and artwork. It was kind