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One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software

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OTW has been in my RSS feeds for a few years. Definitely one of my favs. The maintainer has had reduced output for a while, due to some health issues (used to be three cool finds per day).

I’ve found a lot of slick command line utilities here. It’s worth going through the backlog. I hope the maintainer is able to get back to the steady stream that initially drew me in.

For those put off by Tumblr throwing a banner, ignore the bs of that platform and enjoy the content. There’s some gold to be found.

Ironic that this of all sites has a "install the app" banner. I liked the premise but left immediately when that popped up.

I don't see the banner thanks to uBO, but pumping links traffic through Tumblr is a red flag for me.

don't they use Tumblr as the blog-engine?

Yeah this is a Tumblr blog with a custom domain. Not sure I understand the gripes from the other posters.

I don't either. No pop ups and the back button works fine.

Same here but I'm using noscript so I assume that's why.

This looks great, and obviously the website does one thing well too. One of the entries is for Bunch [1] which is something I spent years hoping to stumble upon only to do so now when I've moved to Linux. Oh well.

[1] https://brettterpstra.com/bunch/

The website is a disaster. Fucking with the back button to trap you there, INSTALL THE APP!!! popups- how hard would it be to use wordpress, or just a static site?

Does it have a cookie banner and email newsletter modal too?

The website does not do anything well except annoy me with popups and a broken back button.

I loved that blog, but it's been stalled for ages now. No new posts in a year(ish).

Good point.

I have a tendency to focus on new-to-me information on a site of this nature, and not notice time since the latest post.

Both are important, although new-to-me is more important.

Not as long as the hiatus[0] several years back. I hadn't realized Jack had started posting again since then. Glad to rediscover this.

[0] - https://onethingwell.org/post/148042678322/bad-hands-hiatus

That’s so sad. Hope he recovers soon and well. Love his blog.

What are some precautions you can take to prevent carpal tunnel and arthritis?

All intentionally. The blog did its one thing well and there was no more left to be said.

Interesting, but don’t like that the site hijacks my browser back button

Trapping the Back key is a permanent turn-off. (I'm using Brave)

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