I ran a series of four 5K races to compare two Nike shoes: Lunaracer ZoomX Streakfly ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2 (two races) The races were on the same course, one week apart. The weather was good all four races. The Lunaracer is an “old school” racing flat with minimal cushioning. …

I built a simple app using Flutter. You can download Kabbalah Numerology from the Google Play store or try the web app. The best part of Flutter is that I wrote one codebase and the app runs on Android, iOS, and as a web app. I like Dart. I’m coming…

Google’s research showed that the likelihood of a bounce increased by 32% when a page load time went from one to three seconds, and by 90% when the page load time went from one to five seconds. …

My MacBook Pro was running out of storage. Its 256GB of memory was down to 9GB of free space. I ran About This Mac > Storage > Manage> Optimize Storage. I ran Clean My Mac. These cleared a few gigabytes, but the space was soon filled again. I noticed that…

tl;dr Understand diegesis and mimesis. Diegesis (“narration”) and mimesis (“imitation”) have been contrasted since Plato’s and Aristotle’s times. Diegesis is the telling of a story by a narrator. Mimesis tells a story by means of action that is enacted. “Show, don’t tell” is a bad rule because it tells screenwriters to use images, and not…

Screenplay coverage services will, for around $300, provide feedback on your script. About one in four coverage services provides useful feedback. Of the more than thirty coverage notes I’ve gotten, Six readers helped me make significant improvements. A dozen readers improved a line or two. Half gave me no actionable…

Germany in 1920 had many similarities to the United States in 2020: Both times were/are extraordinary. Voters were/are polarized between the left and the right, and centrist leaders struggled to stay in office. Germany in 1920 was far more polarized than the United States in 2020. Several German provinces had…

Superstitious pseudo-medicine; conspicuous consumption of endangered species; government policies encouraging unhygienic, cruel wildlife farms; and disinterest in public health, e.g., not shutting down wild animal markets after SARS, are seen in countries around the world. …