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This is Upgrade episode 298. Today's show is brought to you by Pingam, Linode, and Express VPN. My name is Mike Curley and I am joined by Jason Snow. Hello Jason Snow.

Hello Mike Curley, how are you?

Fine and Danny, my friend.

Fine and dandy, I have a hashtag snow talk question for you.

Comes from Stuart.

Stuart would like to know.

Jason, do you like it when people point out typos in your articles or your posts? Some like it so they can correct them, but others seem to not enjoy that feedback. Where do you fall on this?

Hmm. Well I hate making mistakes but it's inevitable especially when you're

working more or less alone and generally that's my workflow is I just write the

story and post it and for Macworld I write the story and then my editor

Macworld looks it over and posts it. And so I hate it when mistakes get through, but they do.

It never fails. Sometimes I will send a story I'm working on to like five or six people in advance.

And then the moment at post people will say, oh, this is a typo a typo I'll be like I showed it to five people and nobody mentioned the typo it can be very frustrating but I like

corrections I like them in the right context I want them to be fixed I want them to be fixed. I want mistakes to be fixed. That said, it is

emotionally difficult when you work very hard on something and among the first pieces of feedback you get on it is not about the substance of

the material but that you made a mistake a minor mistake somewhere like a word

was misspelled or was these days it's right it's the wrong word it's not that a word was misspelled or was these days it's right it's the wrong word it's not that a

word was misspelled because I do actually run a spell check I'm a good

speller but spell checks can find mistyped words but they don't find words

words that were either mistyped as another word or

corrected to another word. In the early days of me writing on the iPad, there was a lot of

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