I now have an inkling of life with only a phone for a computer.

How anybody lives in this hell I’ll never know.

Buttondown is very good.

Goodbye little buddy 👋

I have been stunned by the outpouring of support from the Micro.blog community, having asked for donations to help my family survive the next month.

I will say more but for now: thank you all so much, you’re amazing. ❤️

Donations remain open; I’ll now stop posting reminders.

Glass launched a month ago.

A last message about my request for donations:

Yesterday I posted a Plea For Help. My wife and I are struggling to make ends meet and in the past 24 hours the response has been amazing. I struggle to find the words to express my gratitude. 🙏

Maybe Apple should introduce a Trusted Payment Program for the likes of Stripe and Paypal as a way to stop- oh… well, never mind!

🤦‍♂️

Reminders for my future self, when I have disposable income:

  • This was very difficult.
  • Lots of people in your own country, let alone the world, carry these problems all of the time.
  • Be as generous as possible.
  • Ignore shallow distractions with your money.
  • Always support indies.

Tomorrow is the day I’m going to sell the iPad Pro.

Once we settle into the new place, I’ll return to the old and busted all-in-one Windows machine for as long as it’ll work. 😂

On the plus side, it’s better ergonomically and I can return to a full-sized keyboard and mouse.

(Final timezone bump)

Yesterday I posted my Plea For Help.

My wife and I are currently struggling to make ends meet and we are eternally grateful for any and all help during this difficult time. 🙏

(Timezone bump)

Earlier on I posted my Plea For Help.

My wife and I are currently struggling to make ends meet and we are eternally grateful for any and all help during this difficult time. 🙏

It’s fair to say they are having… mixed reactions to the move 😂

A Plea for Help

Earlier today I put out a short post to ask for help.

Unfortunately my wife and I have discovered that we will be short of money to cover all of our bills this month, and it is making what is an otherwise life-changing event into an all-too familiar ball of stress, anxiety, and frankly, shame.

With that in mind I’m going to step outside of my usual tight-lipped approach and provide a preview of the direct benefit to donating towards my efforts with Today I Learned.

Here are the things your donation can help me make:

  • Guides: The existing Guides will be updated, and more importantly a whole new batch will be published over a short period of time. This will relaunch Guides as a regular post type, including special editions in which related Guides are published over the space of a week.
  • Return to regular posting. Everything from before the break – Tips, Updates, Introducing, Lookup, the recently launched Linked posts, and ICYMI: the weekly catch-up edition of the newsletter – plus the return of The Macro Report.
  • The rest of the special edition of The Macro Report.
  • Reactivation of the Twitter account, with which I’ll make it easier for people outside of Micro.blog to see just how awesome our community is.
  • Further design improvements to the site and Post Haste (the newsletter).
  • Brand new regular post types, starting with a micro-guide that is entirely image-based.
  • A new edition of Post Haste, built around staying updated with urgent Micro.blog events.

… and more. My plans reach well into the future, with everything built on a steady and sustainable timeline. On the Support page I state that I won’t make promises, so this feels even more uncomfortable to write.

However, I hope that highlights just how urgent my current needs have become. You wouldn’t just be helping my family, you would also be securing the path to Today I Learned 2.0. 🙏

Today I Learned donations

I hate to ask, since TIL is currently on a break, but now would be an awesome time for you to send some help my way: Today I Learned donations

More info: Today I Learned Support

This move is tough on our wallet and we just need some help to get through the next month. 🙏

I wish the house moving companies were as good at communicating as the pet moving services 😬

A micropub just opened in our new town 👀

It’s always interesting to see people who like to talk about how they’re “sad to leave Micro.blog” even though they can make the choice to stay.

If I can choose to not be sad, I will always choose to not be sad.

After we move I’m going to set aside time for work in the community, local activism, etc.

I’ll share this on my blog, inspired by other folks on Micro.blog, and hope to see even more of such posts.

It is very easy to site on the sidelines and opine. Much harder to do the work.

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Lots of train travel = time for catching up on sleep + time for working on TIL