How to Read the Reviews So You Know Exactly What You’re Buying Online
We never commit to an online purchase without looking at the reviews first. A glance at reviews can reveal so much more than just star ratings ever could. If...
Chatbots suck
Everybody who has ever used a chatbot will have a hard time disproving this title. But why is it that chatbots are so bad most of...
How to Sell Your Personal Essay: A Simple Guide for Beginners
Most essayists agree that the most difficult part of writing essays is finding the right home for their work. The truth is, even a fantastic personal...
Tutorial: How to quickly deploy a TIG stack using Puppet Bolt
One key to maintaining reliable systems is having a reliable monitoring setup. A common set of software used for monitoring is the TIG stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB,...
Is It Okay If I Don’t Care About Making Money from Writing?
The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected]. For early access to Blunt...
What Writers Need to Know About Morality Clauses
In 1921, the silent film star Fatty Arbuckle was accused of raping and murdering the actress Virginia Rappé at an illicit gin party he’d thrown in...
Top 20 P4P Boxers – July 2019
Though it is a bit delayed, World in Sport has your latest P4P rankings for the month of July. A number of fighters on our list...
“This Land Is Our Land” Is the Manifesto We Need at a Time When Immigration Is Being Criminalized
Suketu Mehta’s latest non-fiction book, This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, takes its title from the Woody Guthrie song, which most wouldn’t associate as...
How to Enable Adobe Flash in Google Chrome 76+
Google, Adobe Adobe Flash is going away. Google drove another nail into its coffin with Chrome 76, which blocks all Flash content on websites by default....
The Best YA Novels Starring DC Superheroes
Recently I did a roundup of all the books expected from DC Ink and DC Zoom, DC’s respective YA and middle grade imprints (which were even...
