This magazine shows a pop that makes Safari ignore the gesture to go back, can't scroll up to go back to the address bar. For people using Safari on iPhone, is there any secret gesture to kill a tab like this?
The phrase "kill your darlings" circulates in fiction writing schools. The reasoning is that a "darling" turn of phrase which the author really likes is likely something that they are irrationally obsessed over and that distorts the editing process around itself, to the detriment of overall quality.
Like a lot of writing advice this is really subjective.
This magazine shows a pop that makes Safari ignore the gesture to go back, can't scroll up to go back to the address bar. For people using Safari on iPhone, is there any secret gesture to kill a tab like this?
Put it into reader mode as soon as the page loads, before the pop-up spawns.
Charges dropped.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/don-henley-eagle...
https://archive.is/5Wu3G
I love this line:
> Rick Gekoski, a book dealer who did business with Mr. Horowitz, described him in 2007 as “a terrific combination of a scholar and a grifter.”
https://archive.is/v4CBl
"Keenly attuned to his guests’ networks and net worths" is a cute turn of phrase.
Watch out for this story, it'll suck you in.
I have just lost an hour of my workday. A good longform profile of a single controversial character will do that to me.
Exactly the sort of darling that that my college tutor would have said needed to be killed. “Yes, I know you’re very proud of it…”
Why would they say that it needs to be killed? To what end?
The phrase "kill your darlings" circulates in fiction writing schools. The reasoning is that a "darling" turn of phrase which the author really likes is likely something that they are irrationally obsessed over and that distorts the editing process around itself, to the detriment of overall quality.
Like a lot of writing advice this is really subjective.