Today I am drinking coffee and can taste it, for the first time in a week.
Fuck you, flu-ey sickness.
Today I am drinking coffee and can taste it, for the first time in a week.
Fuck you, flu-ey sickness.
Wordle 1,015 3/6
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Been flu-ey for a few days so this feels satisfying. My brain is gradually returning to where it should be.
I’ve come to realise that I am the type of person who prefers to use 1,000 apps, all of which do 1 thing perfectly; as opposed to using 10 apps, none of which do anything well.
I feel about bloat as I do about ads.
I’m doing well with Spelling Bee as well. Related: TIL you can use the letters more than once. -_-
Connections
Puzzle #286
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This is a nice little run. Also been enjoying Connections.
Strands #20 “Romeo and Juliet”
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Somehow tore through this one. Been enjoying Strands a lot.
Wordle 1,008 3/6
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Best result yet. That felt good.
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Pretty tough.
It’s 1:30am and I am wide awake. In other words; D&D night.
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That was so mean!
Misread carton as cartoon in today’s NYT Mini. Looks like one coffee isn’t getting the job done.
Dealing with the dregs of the move today. We’re so close to having exactly 0 moving boxes in the house.
As each of these tasks is completed I gain more space for working on TIL. Then, over time we’ll eventually upgrade the desk space and even more will possible.
Progress. Inexorable progress.
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Third guess was a waste. Starting to feel good building the daily habit of playing different word games.
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Rollercoaster.
TIL the word “canard”, thanks to Puzzmo.
In Manners Maketh Man, Davey Craney states:
This bitter growing rumbling spiteful hosepiped rage directed towards these truly inconsequential matters. Imagine the multitude of ways this bitter buffon could channel his energy better within his day.
I largely agree. However, the word “growing” caught my eye.
Davey, I like a lot of what you have written here. Regarding the position of “nowadays” and “the political landscape”, though, I have to disagree. I see a lot of this viewpoint — to me it’s similar to the mentality that leads to making things great again — and I can hardly ever agree.
What made the multiple bad experiences I had in service 20 years ago happen? Or, more importantly, when my cousin was racially abused as a child by other children? Did somebody travel back in time from now and poison the well? Nah I don’t think so. Instead, I think this is just looking for patterns where there are none; seeking certainty because, as an animal, we hate uncertainty.
I’m happy you happen to have the right mix of personhood to handle stress and disappointment in such a cordial manner; not only do I strive, as you do, to always maintain my composure in this way I also believe we’d all be better off if everybody attempted to do so. However I do think it’s important to remember that not everybody is the same and that’s ok. An assertion that your way is undeniably correct seems a little short-sighted, given the vast differences in the lives of people even on our tiny island — again, I am happy for you but I see a lot of this viewpoint as well and I’m not comfortable with casting aspersions in this way.
Your view seems to be “This happened to me? Things must be getting bad.” and that idea makes complete sense when looking to make order out of the chaos of life. I’m not convinced, though, that it’s a particularly helpful way to process these events.
I’m probably missing your specific, nuanced point; it just caught my eye in the way I’ve seen some of the more generalised aspects of these issues presented by others. And I struggle to reconcile that with my own experiences, overall.
Improved a few things with the recommendations page linked from a Micro.blog profile. Now includes an OPML download link too.
Excellent work. Raising the visibility and ease of access to OPML files strengthens web feeds as an alternative to silo feeds.
I was looking into creating OPML files for @TIL; I’m still going to do so, only now I do not need to wait until I have accomplished this to launch related features. Instead, I’ll immediately use this MB mechanism for those features.
Currently in an anti-big-tech kinda mode. It comes and goes in waves.
Seen some indie-bashing going on Micro.blog lately. Bit disappointing to see a lack of perspective from folks who otherwise seem capable of understanding the bigger picture, and remembering just how awful things have become with a small number of massive American companies in charge of everything.
Indie devs:
I hope you can stop using “we” when there’s only one of you.
I hope that decision doesn’t actually work as a method to encourage or reassure people.
I hope this is one of many small paper-cuts that can be removed from the world of the indie internet dev.
Idea: Use the new MB Recommendations feature to make an expanded version of Micro Monday.
It’s a way to curate a list of favorite sites to link to from your blog.
— Manton, Recommendations and blogrolls on Micro.blog
One of my favourite parts of this feature is that the recommendations lists are available on a web page. Expected yet still great implementation which favours the web.
I think my dislike for banking websites is becoming greater than that which I have for ad farms.
In a few months The Fellowship will be seventy-years old.
The big wigs at Apple should take a leaf out of Jen Simmons’ book.
It would be a much wiser approach as compared to “Web developers will sacrifice your children to the devil.”