In an interesting post on Inverse, [Sarah Wells] does a deep dive into something you probably don’t think about very often: the blinking cursor. You’d assume there wasn’t much to the story. Maybe a ...

In Microsoft Windows, the cursor blinks whenever you click editable text. It blinks to stay visible, helping you notice its position in long documents. In shorter stretches of text, such as your ...

I do a lot of writing in Emacs in a plain text console -- it's a lot easier to focus when you don't have the option of goofing off on instant messenger and the Web. The one downside is the ...