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.

The Pick-Me-Apps bundle from the folks at Unclutter is pretty damned good.

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

💯

Less-panicked living

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;

  • the web;
  • iOS;
  • Android;
  • and Windows.

That’s pretty cool tbh.

Now actively doing the Glass thing.

Figuring out where and when I want to publish photos has been in the hopper along with a lot of identity-related work I’ve been doing throughout 2022.

Looking forward to also using Flickr and getting back to my photoblog.

Listening to Kanagawa Waves 1831, by The Geek x VRV, Fakear & Balkan Bump 🎵

“I was able to be a Mum,” she added. “And my kids could be kids, not just carers.”

via Heating prescribed for patients in health trials

We are establishing Universal Income, piecemeal.

Zara McDermott has a rule book for her social media publishing

I’ve been thinking about doing exactly this. Wondering if it wouldn’t help a lot of people, to be honest.

Two things:

  1. A hello page is such a good idea.
  2. I miss seeing Colin’s posts. Hope all is well.