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Since Google Sheets doesn’t have epoch as an option in its date formats, I wrote this script today to convert a huge column of datetimes in a .csv to epoch timestamps.
When I ordered my PinePhone - the postmarketOS edition - I owned a functional yet frustrating Android phone and planned to make the switch gradually. As if by magic, one day after the PinePhone arrived in the post, my long-suffering Samsung A10 packed in for good 🪄
When technology augments the natural limits of human communication, there are often unexpected side effects. When Sharp first decided to bundle together a phone and a camera into the same device, they didn’t know they’d laid the foundation for Instagram, or the rich visual ecosystem of mobile content.
As Microsoft throws Paint into the digital wasteland with the rest of the internet’s abandonware, it’s hard not to get nostalgic about the simple graphical editor that influenced the “shit is good” aesthetic of the early 2000s internet. Its influence on internet culture is huge, with obvious examples being rage comics, stoner comics, and any image macro with awkwardly superimposed text and graphics.