Digging for Fire

Saadia Carbis
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Digging for Fire

This is the audioblog stream for Digging for Fire, a blog about technology and education (and sometimes gardening).

  1. 10小时前

    Pebble

    On the 25th of February in 2015, I backed what would become my most beloved kickstarter project. The Pebble Time smart watch. I chose the Pebble Time Round edition, which I still believe to this day is the most beautiful smart watch that’s ever been built. I was a long-time Apple Watch holdout simply because Apple didn’t make it as a circle. PebbleOS is pure delight. My memories of the software are laced with nostalgia, and it’s only 10 years ago! It had this quirky interface that was as fun and beautiful as it was unique. It covered all the bases for me in a Smart Watch: Lightweight Multi-day battery Easily readable outdoors Extensible (great developer API and documentation) Notifications

    5 分钟

  2. 1天前

    Fever

    Try asking DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square or Uyghur Muslims or Taiwanese Independence. I’m not using it. ChatGPT has better voice recognition and can remember things about me. I like that. Can’t login with Apple over the web, just in the app. It should be banned like TikTok. Exporting Chinese propaganda to the world. Something there about some level of censorship being useful and good, but this crosses a line. What line?

    1 分钟

  3. 6天前

    Compasses over Maps

    We use the word “goal” to talk about so many things. I want to get better at piano. I’m committed to doing yoga every morning for 3 months. Someday, I’d love to run a marathon. These are all “goals”. Business school teaches that goals should be measurable, within a set timeframe. Sales targets and KPIs and OKRs are all goals with multiple axes: time and value. We plot our course as we go, adjusting as necessary, until we reach our final destination (up and to the right). These types of goals are maps. But back here in the real world, life teaches something different.

    4 分钟

  4. 1月23日

    Black & White

    There’s something special about black and white photography. We cannot help but perceive colour all around us, so the black and white image doesn’t capture the world as we see it, but rather, as we remember it. It is said that we dream in black and white. I don’t think that’s true. Dreams, like memories, are a non-visual sensation. We might remember some colours that might have stood out, but that’s a memory of the experience of colour, not colour itself. As Andri Cauldwell puts it: To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.

    7 分钟

  5. 1月22日

    Raising Pirates

    I’ve always been a troublemaker. It’s in my blood. You see, through my father’s line, I am a descendant of Cornish pirates. You may have heard of the Pirates of Penzance. The Gilbert & Sullivan opera was written about real pirates who harboured in a town named Penzance, at the southern tip of the United Kingdom. If you drive 15 minutes north from there, along the A30, you’ll come to a place called Carbis Bay. That’s my namesake. I’m a Carbis.

    6 分钟

  6. 1月21日

    Starting Point

    I recently wrote about the way AI is making it possible to build software essentially for free. That’s not exactly true – at least not yet. Starting work on a new project is hard. It’s the classic blank page problem. While AI doesn’t yet do such a great job of programming, one thing that it’s great at is giving me a starting point.

    2 分钟

  7. 1月20日

    🥙 Pita: Devlog 1

    On June 28, 2005, Apple release iTunes 4.9. From the release notes: With iTunes 4.9, you can now browse and subscribe to podcasts from within the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are frequently updated radio-style shows downloadable over the Internet. You can also transfer podcasts to iPod, for listening on the go. At launch, Apple’s podcast directory was home to 3,000 shows. The BBC at the time described podcasts like this: Podcasts are downloadable audio shows that can be created and listened to by anyone with the right equipment. Who could have imagined that podcasts would grow to become an entire media category, right alongside film, television, music, and books?

    8 分钟

  8. 1月17日

    Malleable Software

    Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory posits that the internet created an entirely new disruptive business paradigm, because for the first time in history, products could be distributed with zero marginal cost. Now, large language models have triggered a second wave of disruption: while the internet eliminated distribution costs, AI is eliminating creation costs – making software essentially free at every stage. Internet = zero marginal cost Internet + LLMs = zero total cost1

    6 分钟
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This is the audioblog stream for Digging for Fire, a blog about technology and education (and sometimes gardening).

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    Saadia Carbis
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    2025年
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