Brendan Dawes - Adobe Alternatives
Brendan describes the software he’s using to get away from Adobe’s mafia business model.
Brendan describes the software he’s using to get away from Adobe’s mafia business model.
For full hipster points, make sure you’re using these services, and then casually drop them into conversation by saying “Yeah, it’s a pretty obscure service; you probably haven’t heard of it…”
A list of alternatives to Google’s products.
We humans are not good at imagining the future. The future we see ends up looking a lot like the past with a few things tweaked or added on.
A fascinating thought experiment from Ted Chiang:
So let’s imagine a world in which Chinese characters were never invented in the first place. Given such a void, the alphabet might have spread east from India in a way that it couldn’t in our history, but, to keep this from being an Indo-Eurocentric thought experiment, let’s suppose that the ancient Chinese invented their own phonetic system of writing, something like the modern Bopomofo, some thirty-two hundred years ago. What might the consequences be?
I like this theory!
China Miéville gives a rundown of some underrated classics of the alternative history subgenre …including Richard Curtis’s Notting Hill.