“You can buy issues of these incredible publications at Chrysalis Magazine, EASEL, Picnic, Lilac Peril, and Trans Mag. If you love trans print, we also recommend checking out Gunkhole Press, Diskette Press, Shapeless Press, Daisy Thursday’s incredible zines, Active Chapter, One-Handed Press, Meanwhile… Letterpress and of course, Little Puss Press.”
– Jacob Romm, The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine
“Paul Brainerd, who went on to coin the term “desktop publishing” and build Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., after living for many years with Parkinson’s disease. He was 78 years old.
He left two legacies. The first was a piece of software that put the power of the printed page into the hands of millions of people who had never operated a typesetting machine. The second was a three-decade commitment to environmental conservation and philanthropy in the Pacific Northwest, pursuing it with the same intensity he brought to the desktop publishing revolution.”
– Todd Bishop, PageMaker Pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus Founder Devoted His Second Chapter to the Planet
No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this. The print edition of The New Yorker could not possibly be more respectful of both the reader’s attention and the sanctity of the prose they publish. But read an article on their website and you get autoplaying videos interspersed between random paragraphs. And the videos have nothing to do with the article you’re reading. I mean, we should be so lucky if every website were as respectfully designed as The New Yorker’s, but even their website — comparatively speaking, one of the “good ones” — shows only a fraction of the respect for the reader that their print edition does.”
– John Gruber, ★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
“One thing I wanted to touch on a little more is the legal angle. We live in an era of a lot of people getting their news from content creators. And a lot of content creators shoot from the hip. They’ll either say something off the cuff without having verified it, or they’ll put on their journalist hat and be like “I talked to one source” — which will lead them to be sloppy or incorrect. Especially for this piece, a months-long investigation, what did that legal process look like? How long did that process take? What were the sticking points?”
– Nathan Grayson, Great Journalism Doesn’t Happen Overnight
“I can’t stress this enough: there is nothing you can do to save the tech industry, and that is not your job.”
– Mike Monteiro’s Good News, How to Do the Work
If you secretly use AI, you are not treating the reader as your ally. If you openly use AI, nobody will read it. The end.
– DYNOMIGHT, My Advice on (Internet) Writing, for What It’s Worth)
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