BlogFlockFAQ: How do you use your typewriters? | Chris Aldrich
Below are some various recent uses I’ve made of my typewriter collection
I have a handful of nice typewriters that sit unused. I would really like to change that. Chris' list gives me a few ideas.
taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV
You opened this page. It already knows the following.
I already knew most of this, but it's still alarming to see it all at once.
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I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs, specifically Amin’s
upcoming ffs package. Amin informed me about changes to ffs in
light of a discussion we had during a previous session.
Amin asked me to record the meeting and then publish it, which I happily agreed to. You can…
I get a lot of newsletters, the traditional way, via email. Those newsletters often contain links to interesting things. Unfortunately, people love metrics, causing many of those newsletters to obfuscate the URLs with tracking links. I don't usually bother clicking those, because I can't hover over a…
This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post.
This is my…
This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit.
My original concern when brainstorming the idea…
Today I watched with great interest the discussion of Yanis Varoufakis with the hosts of The Rest Is Politics podcast, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/05/03/on-the-rest-is-politics-with-alastair-campbell-and-rory-stewart-from-the-2008-crash-to-the-rise-of-populism/.
Yanis was at the heart of Europe’s post-2008 financial and sovereign debt crisis, first as a commentator from the sidelines of the academia…
I gotta start bugging Claude Code to help me make adding images here easier, before I'm sucked backed into Ghost.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has created an input shock whose delayed cascading effects we shall experience in the months and years to come. Shortages in oil and its derivatives bring about challenging states of affairs that extend to every area of economic activity. If businesses start failing,…
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