MidRange

By Ernie Smith

Not quite short form, not quite tedious. A less ambitious newsletter by Ernie Smith.

Not ten short items. Not one long item. One mid-range item.

Three times a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday). With a time limit. ⏲

Previous issues

On Grid Removal 🏕

#115 Oct 21, 2021

Pretending I Saw the MacBooks Yesterday 💻

#114 Oct 19, 2021

Up Against The Limits ✋

#113 Oct 18, 2021

#112

Oct 14, 2021

Robin’s Viral Egg 🥚 – That impressive Robin Williams YouTube impression reflects a real shift in how people become famous i
#111

Oct 12, 2021

Porting A Port 📲 – An engineer wanted a USB-C port on his iPhone, so he hacked one in himself. It’s the ultimate manifes
#110

Oct 11, 2021

Your Plot Of Land ⛏ – If you care about freedom of speech on the internet, don’t expect Facebook, Twitter, or the law to gi
#109

Oct 7, 2021

Don’t Do This 🪛 – Computer companies are increasingly encouraging users not to open their devices … while still making
#108

Oct 5, 2021

Bring Back Personal Websites 🖥 – Facebook’s epic downtime on Monday is the best possible reminder we have that the native internet alr
#107

Oct 4, 2021

Dead Link Department 🔗 – How a working link printed in an old newspaper got me thinking anew about the dead links that cover t
#106

Sep 30, 2021

More Thoughts on Ozy 🗞 – The problem with Ozy is that it existed to raise up one man’s career, and what helps raise profiles d
#105

Sep 28, 2021

The Art of Puffery 💨 – The website Ozy might have gotten a bit too bold with its claims of readership, as a New York Times c
#104

Sep 27, 2021

Bless This Mess 🙏 – Why I spent the weekend cleaning my piles of junk by putting them into more intentional, somewhat org
#103

Sep 23, 2021

Staying the Course 🔧 – Perhaps the problem with the digital software we use (particularly of the software-as-a-service varie
#102

Sep 21, 2021

Thunder On The Surface 🌩 – Microsoft apparently is finally giving into all the complaining tech-heads and embracing Thunderbolt
#101

Sep 20, 2021

Norm-Core 🤣 – Watching old Norm MacDonald clips on YouTube as a mental health aid.
#100

Sep 16, 2021

Best Of: Lessons From a Cleaning 🪥 – For no particular reason, I decided to spend a couple hours of my day cleaning my keyboard, inside an
#99

Sep 14, 2021

Best Of: Road Writing 101 🚗 – How innovation has made the process of writing in a moving vehicle a lot less painful than it was jus
#98

Sep 13, 2021

Best Of: The Lone Coder – A letter of appreciation to the guy who spent years developing one of the few modern web browsers for
#97

Sep 9, 2021

Clues Blues 🦴 – Can we talk about how strange it is that, out of all the things original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burn
#96

Sep 7, 2021

Open To Interpretation 💾 – There’s been a growing push by companies that produce open-source software to either modify the model

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