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David Blue Portrait 9

※ G o o d M o r n i n g ※

I'm David Blue - an automotive journalist on sabbatical and self-described Software Historian.

It's good to be here!

By that I mean, it's especially nice to feel welcome here even though I am in no way a software developer.

I use the term Software Historian because I have found myself especially fascinated with the origin stories of the platforms and services we use in the past 3-4 years, especially regarding Word Processors.

My ultimate software development aspiration would be to build my own CMS with Python from scratch, but I'm not just being humble when I tell you that I am very far away from doing that.

Recently, I have been toying with the idea of writing a Literary History of Streaming Music, directly inspired by Professor Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, continuing the work I began in one of my all-time best essays examining the Holiness of Bandcamp as a technology company who can do no wrong.

I'm sure anyone reading this can relate when I lament that I really should get around to writing an updated bio, but I've already spent enough time on this one, I think. Let me just quote myself from my blog's about page:

I’ve already born witness to innovation bridging divisions between people throughout the greatest informational renaissance my species has ever seen... Originally, I wrote about our relationship with cars (2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review) and now technology (Bandcamp: Streaming's Secret Savior) from a perspective that feels tedious or abstract to some, but is generally entertaining, through-and-through. I’m proud of the work I’ve done so far, which has been wild, absurd, reflective, and hilarious — occasionally all in the same work as I develop my voice.

I'm not just horsing around when I say feel free to email me about literally anything.


The Psalms (My technology blog. Entirely nonsecular, I promise)

🇪🇺 End User (A solo "podcast" which I update now and then, talking to my phone - silence truncated - about things I've been exploring.)

What The Fuck (An experimental WordPress installation.)

Ǝ Extratone (An online music magazine which I devoted most of my adult life to developing up until 2018.)

Personal Wiki (Another experiment - this one in Notion.)

Social Directory (An ongoing list of links to my profiles on every social service I can remember signing up for.)

MASTODON // TWITTER // DISCORD

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  1. Documentation for The Psalms - my blog about software's intersection with culture. Not just for the website - for the entire process (correspondence, notetaking, drafting, *revising*, editorializin…

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  2. Writing (collaboratively) the definitive guide to using iPhone with a Bluetooth keyboard.

  3. All of my iOS/iPhone-related documentation, files, media, etc.

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    # A P P S
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    ## An ongoing list of favorite, desired, noteworthy, absurd, despicable, scammy, etc. iOS App Store links.
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    Thanks to the **absolutely invaluable** [AppWish app,](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/appwish-simple-wishlist/id1291909819), this list is _much_ easier to maintain.
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    # [The Unlicense, Dave Edition](https://gist.github.com/extratone/140a11428b5dd1dda500b3928e0438b1)
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    Considering my use of Git as a means to track revisions on my own writing, it's important to note that you should feel free to replace all instances of "software" in the statement below with "words," "writing," "expression," “editorial ideation,” etc.
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    While I appreciate tremendously the work and contribution of [Arlo Bendiken](https://ar.to/2010/01/set-your-code-free) in the form of The Unlicense, I would like to add that I see no need, personally, to make the refutation of Intellectual Property law regarding my own work into some profound ethical statement. As it stands, I have not to my knowledge been the victim of any sort of theft of any kind, and find the suggestion highly unlikely. If I *am*  made aware of such a case, there is certainly a possibility that I may change my mind on this issue, so I suppose I should highlight that **THESE TERMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE**, though I suspect I would be more flattered and/or amused than actually offended. 
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    ## An (ongoing) list of handy Unicode-based tools for absolutely destroying text, everywhere.
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    ### Resources
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    * [Online Unicode Tools](https://onlineunicodetools.com/)

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Bilge Write.as Theme

I think I finally figured out Pull Requests??? Documentation for my blog, bilge.world. I proudly use Write.as as my blog's CMS. I am relatively new…

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Social Media Methodology Documentation

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