Half an Hour

Oh, is it that time of the year again? Everything I do is a learning experience, so my 'top learning tools' are basically 'my top tools'. So what am I using this year? 1. Firefox So few people list the browser at the top of their list, and yet so many of their other tools depend on it. For me, the choice of browser is especially significant since I have a deep aversion to advertising, and Firefox is one of the few browsers that allows me to effectively block it. Firefox is the first thing I start up when I start my computer and the map of where I go from there, as witnessed by my (hand-coded) Start Page.  2.  LocalRSS This is an RSS reader I wrote myself (with the assistance of AI so I could built it in a few days rather than a few months). It doesn't do any fancy AI filtering or summarizing - I've found that AI doesn't see the world the way I do. But it does sort results to make sure the post from the feed that offers one item a month isn't drowned in ...