2023
Giving Secrets a try thanks to Indie App Santa. Going to work out if it’s worth having a third-party option in use for TIL rather than using Apple for everything.
My tech future (part two)
Now a very short way into the future, an update;
- a basic phone;
- an MP3 player;
- [own] maybe a laptop;
- [own] a few reliable notebooks;
- [own] a selection of analogue watches;
- [own] and a camera.
Feeling good about the progress I’ve made, although at that point I already owned a camera. I am also happy to grow my collection of the bottom three items in particular.
To be clear, since I didn’t mention it in my first post these aims are for my personal life in particular. If my work demands use of other hardware and software then I’ll use whatever is needed. Given the increasing capabilities of laptops, I wouldn’t mind if that was all I truly needed for any professional work whilst also giving me the bare necessary access to the digital world I might need for personal use.
Our start to life in Cornwall has been so good that I believe this goal is achievable rather than fanciful, and I look forward to completing the list so that I can put my ideas to the test. That includes expanding on those ideas in some sort of digital public space.
One of the things I’m determined to learn about Hugo is the design of templates, specifically with regard to names. It’s certainly interesting!
Films I’ve never seen:
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- A Christmas Carol
- Scrooge
- Godfather, parts 1 and 2
- Citizen Kane
- The Terminator
- Scarface
- Godzilla
- Heat
- Seven Samurai
- Rashomon
- Léon
- Jaws
- Schindler’s List
- Close Encounters
- The Color Purple
- 12 Years a Slave
- The Exorcist
- The Princess Bride
- Mean Girls
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Time to start my holiday break. I’ll still be around, mostly for short posts and existing conversations.
Now for relaxing and recovering from what has been a year. 😮💨
People hoping for good open web experiences with Threads is a perfect example of how easily we forget the experience of being hit on the head.
It’s a shame the collaborative playlist feature for Apple Music didn’t make it into the new updates. That would have been nice to have during the holiday season.
Post-move progress report:
Finding it easier with each day to continue my previous work which had stalled at the last place; introducing structure, intent, and clarity into my daily life. Routines are now possible, which feels exciting.
Listening to Jeff Bezos talk about stress helps me to better understand at least some of his success.
It’s amazing, as I’ve gotten older, to observe just how much difficulty in both my own life and that of others could be mitigated if more effort was spent in the act of; stopping and considering.
I started the process of fixing a broken book cover for Micro.blog Books and just gave up; there are too many awkward steps and that’s after you’ve discovered the secret handshake to even attempt to help.
It’d be great if enthusiasts had an easier time with this kind of thing.
Hire more writers.
Adam Newbold in day 2 of 25 Days of omg.lol:
But, it turns out, there is a special beauty in the process itself.
Not only is it reassuring to see him taking this approach for omg.lol itself, it is great to see advocacy for care in development. You don’t need to break things to move fast.
I used to be all “ew that link is more than one place, how gross” and now I’m all…
“Please.
make. it. easy. to. link. to. your. thing.
Put that link EVERYWHERE!
It’s the web for fuck’s sake.”
When you’re working on six things at once and in one moment they go from your head as a simultaneous arrangement of enticing opportunities, onto paper as part of the publishing schedule.
That… feels good.