interesting – her divine shadow https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals all in one place Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:01:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Curate your own newspaper with RSS https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2025/09/44303/curate-your-own-newspaper-with-rss/ Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2025/09/44303/curate-your-own-newspaper-with-rss/ Continue reading Curate your own newspaper with RSS →]]> Many, if not most, websites publish an RSS feed.e Whereas the Twitter app can only be used to follow people on Twitter, and the Substack app can only be used to follow writers who publish on Substack, you can follow any website with an RSS feed from a feed reader. When you open it, all your reading is neatly waiting for you in one place, like a morning newspaper. And RSS is more of a one-way street from a privacy perspective,f pushing writing out to you with less of your data flowing back to the publisher.

]]> You should be using an RSS reader | by Cory Doctorow | Oct, 2024 | Medium https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2024/11/34470/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-by-cory-doctorow-oct-2024-medium/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:05:01 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2024/11/34470/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-by-cory-doctorow-oct-2024-medium/ Continue reading You should be using an RSS reader | by Cory Doctorow | Oct, 2024 | Medium →]]> RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.

]]> Opinion | A physicist reacts to the gravitational waves discovery – The Washington Post https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2023/08/32084/opinion-a-physicist-reacts-to-the-gravitational-waves-discovery-the-washington-post/ Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:21:43 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2023/08/32084/opinion-a-physicist-reacts-to-the-gravitational-waves-discovery-the-washington-post/ When a gravitational wave moves through you, you are, for a moment, a different shape.

]]> Voyage into Silence: Interview with Philip Gröning – Decent Films https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2021/03/31350/voyage-into-silence-interview-with-philip-groning-decent-films/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:01:27 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2021/03/31350/voyage-into-silence-interview-with-philip-groning-decent-films/ Continue reading Voyage into Silence: Interview with Philip Gröning – Decent Films →]]> Toward the end of Gröning’s stay at the Grande Chartreuse, the monks asked him (in notes, probably) what he had learned from them. The question came as a surprise to Gröning, who had “drifted away from speech by then” that he hadn’t worked out his ideas in words.

Eventually, he said, “I realized that what I had actually learned was that it is possible to live very much without fear, because this is what they do. They live without fear. I wanted the audience to be able to share this.”

]]> 33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33 – RyanHoliday.net https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/10/31161/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-ryanholiday-net/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:00:03 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/10/31161/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-ryanholiday-net/ Continue reading 33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33 – RyanHoliday.net →]]> Tim Ferriss always seems to ask the best questions: What would this look like if it were easy? How will you know if you don’t experiment? What would less be like? The one that hit me the hardest, when I was maybe 25, was “What do you do with your money?” The answer was “Nothing, really.” Ok, so why try so hard to earn lots more of it?

]]> Death of the office | 1843 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/05/30945/death-of-the-office-1843/ Wed, 13 May 2020 14:00:06 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/05/30945/death-of-the-office-1843/ Continue reading Death of the office | 1843 →]]> In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write a letter to a friend. If the man was excited to be working in a building that was revolutionary, or thrilled to be part of a novel institution which would transform the world in the centuries that followed, he showed little sign of it. “You don’t know how wearisome it is”, wrote Charles Lamb, “to breathe the air of four pent walls, without relief, day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four.” His letter grew ever-less enthusiastic, as he wished for “a few years between the grave and the desk”. No matter, he concluded, “they are the same.”

]]> That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30891/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:00:05 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30891/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief/ Continue reading That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief →]]> Yes, we’re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we’re uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we have the normal thought that we’ll lose a parent someday. Anticipatory grief is also more broadly imagined futures. There is a storm coming. There’s something bad out there. With a virus, this kind of grief is so confusing for people. Our primitive mind knows something bad is happening, but you can’t see it. This breaks our sense of safety. We’re feeling that loss of safety.

]]> Coping with Climate Change Distress https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30849/coping-with-climate-change-distress/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:48:26 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30849/coping-with-climate-change-distress/ guide on how to cope with climate distress (PDF).

]]> An app can be a home-cooked meal https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30850/an-app-can-be-a-home-cooked-meal/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:48:26 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30850/an-app-can-be-a-home-cooked-meal/ Continue reading An app can be a home-cooked meal →]]> For a long time, I have struggled to articulate what kind of programmer I am. I’ve been writing code for most of my life, never with any real discipline, but/and I can, at this point, make the things happen on computers that I want to make happen. At the same time, I would not last a day as a professional software engineer. Leave me in charge of a critical database and you will return to a smoldering crater.

Making this app, I figured it out:

I am the programming equivalent of a home cook.

]]> For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime – The New York Times https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30847/for-many-widows-the-hardest-part-is-mealtime-the-new-york-times/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:48:25 +0000 https://www.herdivineshadow.com/journals/2020/03/30847/for-many-widows-the-hardest-part-is-mealtime-the-new-york-times/ Continue reading For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime – The New York Times →]]> The connection between food and mourning runs deep: In almost every culture or tradition, a community brings dishes to the survivors in the weeks or months after a death. But for a spouse, accustomed to sharing every meal with a partner, the grieving can go on long afterward, renewed constantly by the rhythms of shopping, cooking and eating.

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