Interesting rambling and exploration. What would a computer built to last a century look like?

A nice subset of HTML to ensure better accessibility and reduced complexity.

There's definitely a tension between something which you can organize and search easily (by typing) and something you can remember better (by hand writing). That's why I can't get rid of hand written notes completely, I practice a mix of both depending on the use.

The limits of digital books, this won't get me off the paper books addiction I got.

The death of the floppy disk has been greatly exaggerated it seems. At least for now...

Seriously this is an awesome and badly needed technology. Let's hope it spreads.

I didn't know about the Lindy effect, this is an interesting point. Obviously I have a different setup (Plasma has been around longer than XMonad after all) but the overall advice is good.

Good exercise of prospective for our field. I don't subscribe to all the analyses in there but the value is in at least starting the conversation about it.

An excellent reminder that usability wise, high-tech is not always the best path. It's good to also evaluate low-tech options at every turn. This is important to know the pros and cons of all the options you can pick.
There's also an interesting point in there about how those more constrained technologies in fact force and help designers to focus on the most important user features.

I obviously agree quite a lot with this.

Don't use it much anymore for various reasons, but I still find the simplicity of IRC still appealing and elegant. It is a really neat protocol.

Interesting, simple productivity system.

This sounds like a good approach for optimizing on software durability. Obviously this means you loose other things. This is a trade-off.