I just took my AirPods, connected to my Mac, out and rather than keep the song paused — via Apple Music btw — it weirdly switched to my non-wireless headphones and continued playing. Yet more junk…
I just took my AirPods, connected to my Mac, out and rather than keep the song paused — via Apple Music btw — it weirdly switched to my non-wireless headphones and continued playing. Yet more junk…
lol Apple’s nagging notification about updating my iPhone’s software caused the device to freeze up. idk about anyone at Apple but that’s my definition of shipping junk.
TIL that Basecamp made their editor available as open source.
Let’s see if I understand:
The ActivityPub feature enables a version of your Micro.blog profile with which ActivityPub-enabled accounts from non-Micro.blog platforms can follow.
With each day I feel an increasing attraction towards people who respect the importance of context.
Quips feel good precisely because they lack context; they’re low effort with the false impression of success. It’s much harder to stay silent whilst learning.
ActivityPub support for Flickr would be an interesting idea, however the last I checked their native apps are still pretty bad.
Improved plumbing should not come at the cost of nice experiences across the board. There is no reason we cannot do both.
Just fucking do it.
— Terry Grier with some honesty
This is how I’ve been feeling more and more. My iPhone is now one of my computers; the phone part is there until I’m properly positioned (as soon as I have money; I can wait) to switch to a good, reliable mobile phone.
One of my favourite things about Micro.blog is the blog part. I know lots of people have become strongly attached to timelines and the mechanisms therein; I hope the platform is never compromised by what is, for the most part, addiction-driven behaviour and expectations.
The “it’s too complicated” complaints about Mastodon are the same as the “I’m not paying for a social network” complaints about Micro.blog.
People have been trained into wanting everything for nothing on the web, and then living in denial about the true cost of the services.
We spent four hours outside today. First Hogan’s free-run, followed by the festive market. It was awesome; we were so ready to move to the country, and we’ve only just begun.
Pared down the apps on my phone… creating an environment that is much less reliant on the small computer starts this way; gradually establish non-computer tools as the primary option, then move onto experimenting with less capable phone alternatives.
Listening to MMHHMM, by LiamLRY 🎵
Listening to Boom Bap, by Todd Siesel 🎵
Per my last post, what a fantastic reminder that @kocienda is on Micro.blog.
Does that mean that any future famous business-owning government official will have a row of badges? This seems like a recipe for confusion—or perhaps clutter—rather than clarity.
— Ken Kocienda, Thoughts on Twitter Verification
Message boards have this feature. For hobbyists.
Listening to Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man (Lo-Fi), by Lunar Beats 🎵
More Robin Sloan: settling on definitions for “influencer” and “creator”. // @JohnPhilpin
Robin Sloan’s The lost thread is magical. Brilliant, up and down.
Woke up to the wonderful sight of @heyloura’s one-off amongst the falling emoji 😂
Frankly, Apple should have the balls to say okay, we’re moving to two-year macOS major version updates.
— Alan Ralph, macOS Meh
💯
In the past year we moved for work (my wife got opportunities that were not available in our previous location) and ended up in a fairly affluent, yet still diverse region; we’re lucky in that there is a good mix of accepting technological changes but not excluding stable, traditional methods of, well, most aspects of life.
Given that, I’ve noticed that without the distortion field of an immediately nearby major urban centre people are much less inclined to be constantly driven by whatever latest shiny waste of time appears, whether from startups or desperate monopolists. Rather, people observe the wider world at a slower pace than heart-attack-inducing and most often continue to rely on well-established lines of communication; specifically, speak to your neighbours as first priority, care about your local politicians above all else, and so on.
This has helped me to understand certain trends and opinions that I’ve observed of people from outside of the tech/web/news bubble that so often dominates and defines online communities. It seems that people have got lives to live, and real changes to make rather than taking up their time screeching at a website.
Overall, this makes me happy. If we’re going to make important changes, and generally improve our world as much as possible we need people who are capable of maintaining perspective whilst doing the best they possibly can.
(this post was inspired by this conversation on Micro.blog)
YouTube and iMessage are the social networks very few Commenters seem to consider to be social networks at all.
I used “Writer” as the job title for a LinkedIn alert and it threw up an error saying “Please use a job title” 😂
Didn’t realise that Glass for Android is now a thing. So it’s now available on;
That’s pretty cool tbh.