David Demaree's blog

Monkeys & Typewriters

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:44:22 GMT

An AI luddite stops worrying and learns to have fun making weird stuff with robots.

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Sat, 14 May 2022 00:04:32 GMT

How I learned to stop worrying and love “Elden Ring”

Why are webcams so cursed?

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:00:00 GMT

Reviewers say the camera on Apple’s new display is horrible. Not surprised, tbh.

The fandomification of global conflict

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:53:17 GMT

Ryan Broderick rounded up the internet’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which by the way has exemplified all the ways the internet has broken all of our brains more than anything I’ve seen in the last 20 years. For the rest of the world experiencing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine via social media, it has […]

2 weeks with the Fuji X100V

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:50:11 GMT

I got a new camera for summer vacation shooting. Fuji’s fixed-lens compact is a lot of fun.

Bird, Caged

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:09:24 GMT

Scaling back Twitter before my brain gets any mushier

“The right words on climate have already been said”

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:55:51 GMT

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 […]

Embracing ‘Read-Only’ Mode During Covid

Sun, 23 May 2021 00:43:03 GMT

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 […]

‘Geriatric Millennials’

Tue, 18 May 2021 01:49:25 GMT

There’s a lot to unpack in this post by Erica Dhawan, and it took me a minute to decide which parts to excerpt. This passage, though, captures both her thesis and most of what’s wrong with it: For organizations that are divided across generational divides between baby boomers and Gen Z, it’s beneficial to call […]

Panic’s ‘Code Editor’, and the Lack of Pro Apps for iPad

Mon, 17 May 2021 13:06:03 GMT

After nine years, Panic has discontinued Code Editor, the iOS version of their web development app combining a text editor, file transfer client, and terminal. They blame poor sales — the app wasn’t selling enough copies to fund its continued development, which was also the case for Panic’s now-discontinued Transmit iOS and Status Board apps. […]