Usually I'm so busy chatting and marveling when I visit Helmut that I totally forget to take a few photos. Fortunately someone stopped in for some ribbon on a Hermes yesterday, so I took a moment to document some of the density of typewriters in Helmut's spectacular typewriter shop. I only got photos of about half of the space, but tried to cover all the various refurbished machines ready for sale. Generally not pictured are the client machines for repair.
If you're looking for a really great refurbished machine, then this is the place to stop in and try out almost anything ever manufactured.
I have to admit, even for an experienced collector, this shop is overwhelming, so perhaps do yourself the favor of browsing what he's got listed online to make a shopping list before you go! Without some prep you could easily spend a week here and not see everything much less try out a tiny fraction of what's on offer.
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If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).
In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:
“PRO: Your team is on a free trial”
This is your chance to go back and manually archive or follow-up on old dms and “saved” posts.
If you happen to use the bookmarks (AKA “Later” or “Save for later”) feature to collect Slack posts that you want to follow-up on later, you may have noticed that any such “saved” posts older than 30 days are usually no longer viewable.
When your Slack instance is on a PRO free trial, you can once again view these older posts.
Use this opportunity to go through any saved posts older than 30 days (maybe older than 15 days to give yourself a buffer, or all of them to clear them out) and decide what to do with them.
If there is anything about them you still want to save (for reference), copy them somewhere else accordingly, or if you saved them as a reminder to follow-up, copy them to a persistent plain text inbox, or if following-up will only take a few minutes, then take care of them.
The other thing you get longer term access to are direct messages (dms).
Slack PRO provides you full access to your (potentially years of) dms, instead of only the past 30 days worth. Worth checking your dms to see if there is anything you want to copy or save.
I advise using the web version of Slack to do this, since it’s much easier to merely open another tab to copy/paste or otherwise take care of dms and saved posts.
That’s my #WASSUP tip for the day.
The IndieWeb community Slack (which itself is merely one of several ways to access the IndieWeb chat) is currently in a Slack PRO free trial, and I have been going through a few saved posts, copying content to the wiki or otherwise handling them.
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"text": "If any of your communities use Slack, especially the \u201cfree\u201d version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your \u201cSlack team\u201d to their \u201cPRO\u201d version (for 30 days).\n\nIn the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:\n\n\u201cPRO: Your team is on a free trial\u201d\n\nThis is your chance to go back and manually archive or follow-up on old dms and \u201csaved\u201d posts.\n\nIf you happen to use the bookmarks (AKA \u201cLater\u201d or \u201cSave for later\u201d) feature to collect Slack posts that you want to follow-up on later, you may have noticed that any such \u201csaved\u201d posts older than 30 days are usually no longer viewable.\n\nWhen your Slack instance is on a PRO free trial, you can once again view these older posts.\n\nUse this opportunity to go through any saved posts older than 30 days (maybe older than 15 days to give yourself a buffer, or all of them to clear them out) and decide what to do with them.\n\nIf there is anything about them you still want to save (for reference), copy them somewhere else accordingly, or if you saved them as a reminder to follow-up, copy them to a persistent plain text inbox, or if following-up will only take a few minutes, then take care of them.\n\nThe other thing you get longer term access to are direct messages (dms).\n\nSlack PRO provides you full access to your (potentially years of) dms, instead of only the past 30 days worth. Worth checking your dms to see if there is anything you want to copy or save.\n\nI advise using the web version of Slack to do this, since it\u2019s much easier to merely open another tab to copy/paste or otherwise take care of dms and saved posts.\n\nThat\u2019s my #WASSUP tip for the day.\n\nThe IndieWeb community Slack (which itself is merely one of several ways to access the IndieWeb chat) is currently in a Slack PRO free trial, and I have been going through a few saved posts, copying content to the wiki or otherwise handling them.\n\nGlossary:\n\nIndieWeb chat\n\u00a0 https://chat.indieweb.org/\n\nThis is my eighth #WASSUP2026 post, and sixth useful web tip for September.\n\n#Slack #SlackTeam #SlackPRO #SlackTip #tip #webTip\n\nThis is post 21 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
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Today’s games are making me feel a bit better about Miami’s performance last night. They’re not the only team that allowed an inferior opponent stick around, and a few top teams were knocked off. Early in the season. Injuries are a huge issue, though…
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