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A year of Dishonored

It's exactly one year today since I first played Dishonored. I'm now reminiscing in a spoiler-free manner....

Rec: A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Check out the blog "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" - you'll learn a lot both about history and its correlations with popular culture....

Biscuit - A New Fave Tool

Moving your web app tabs into a separate program is an ingenious idea. Biscuit will help you, if you keep getting lost in your dozens of open tabs....

Leaving Evernote for Joplin

I have been looking for an Evernote replacement for the longest time. It's a nice tool, but it has some features and limitations that irritated me: no markdown support (the HTML in the editor often got messy), no end-to-end encryption or control over my data, and a restrictive device limit and online-only requirement in the free version. While one could argue I could have paid to fix some of those problems, I didn't want to. The only restriction that really bothered me was the two-device limit....

Bandcamp - the best place to buy music

I love Bandcamp [http://bandcamp.com/]. They do almost exactly what I want from a music store. (I just think their search is a bit sucky - I often can't find what I'm looking for.) You can see my faves in the picture above. I would have never known about most of them, were it not for Bandcamp. Some things to love about it: * They let you actually listen to the music, first. Every album is available in its entirety. You can listen to it a few times and then decide whether you want to buy...