Using the same trick as last time and bookmarking the Photoblogging Prompts to give me quick access to them outside of Gluon. 📷

It’s great to see that the folks at Hobinichi have expanded their ordering system to include international customers.

I have picked out my planner for next year — giving the “Cousin Avec” a whirl this time — and look forward to Friday when orders become available. 📔

I’ve been looking at some of the Hello pages linked to by Alastair Johnston. It’s been several months since I first read his introduction and the appeal has only grown stronger.

What the actual fuck, Paddle?

This is the kind of developer-hostile nonsense that too many customers and users are either unaware of, or to which they are wilfully ignorant.

Try to remember this the next time you decide to wave the flag for the people in charge (vendors, hosts, etc).

Pixelfed has a whole separate website for a blog and yet I still can’t easily find who it actually is that makes this product.

Disclaimer: I don’t need to know. Their publicly available information should be better, even if I am the only person who cares about this sort of thing.

🎵 Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) - 2018 Remaster - Kate Bush

Because of course I am.

After the four-month gap in journalling, which was bad, it has become increasingly clear that any work to which I commit towards the goal of including greater intention in my day-to-day life is always worthwhile.

That listless feeling? It is due almost entirely to a lack of intention.

Finally added some shortcuts to the Micro.blog Mac app. It was handy to have the new Help document.

This included a reminder of the “Go to User…” feature, which is a wonderfully quick way to search for people. I assume it works the same way as Discover Search.

I wonder if there’s something to a Micro.blog community meet-up in the week leading to Jean’s Community Manager Hours. 🤔

• Multiple sessions for timezones, schedules, etc.
• A chance for people to pass on notes for Jean’s session.
• Not recorded, kept private, just subject-specific notes.

Finally completed switching the publishing schedule for @TIL from Fantastical to TaskPaper. This makes me happy for a number of reasons, not least of all is the fact that the work continues whilst simultaneously my working environment is greatly improved.

… why?

— the very definition of life with a cat.

It’s been fifteen months since Hogan became a part of the family.

Can confirm we’ll always have at least one Retriever/Labrador/Retriever-Labrador in our family from now on.

testing mentions:

after a bracket (@challenges

before a bracket @challenges)

with a comma @challenges,

via Micro.blog News:

Fixed an issue processing some Substack feeds. Also now prefers the full-length text of a post (newsletter email?) from Substack.

Ahem. That’s content blob, thank you very much.

Ended yesterday in Pixelmator; started today in Pixelmator. Work on @TIL continues…

It feels good to be back:

It has been both a lot of fun and a relief to work on TIL again. The feeling I get from connecting to more of the open web, at the cost of the closed web, is… comfort, I think?

Tomorrow, belatedly, a new post on @TIL… 😮‍💨

For those who are concerned about Micro.blog’s involvement with Meta, you can now post any questions and concerns on the Help forum since the team is looking for greater, public contributions to features that impact community.

The “Personal Journals” sub-category in Apple Podcasts has been made more prominent by Apple, which is a nice accidental update for Micro.blog; this sub-category is the default choice for Micro.blog podcasts.

So. We’re in Cornwall.

It is amazing; even though we’ve only been here together on two occasions, both within the past fourteen months, there is no doubt that Claire and I want little more than to settle in this particular place. The West Country is, truly, exactly where we belong.

And it’s weird, partly because one of the reasons we’re here is so that Claire can attend part one of an interview — we’re both nervous and I have full faith that she will give them no reason other than to offer her the position — and because it is the first time we have ever deliberately taken time out for a break. This is our first holiday together. It’s a short break but when you have not taken one in almost twenty years it feels so very long in the very best way imaginable.

Now, given time away, it has provided me with the chance to prioritise a number of thoughts, ideas, and possibilities that I have been holding back… or rather, I have provided myself with that chance. Isn’t it weird how easy it is to forget that the time we spend is often of our own making?

On top of the many updates due for @TIL, and the shared stories with Claire, I now realise I need to more seriously create space for my long-form blogging. It’s likely that I’ll publish the many thoughts and ideas freed to roam by the break, in an effort to “work-in-public” as I have in the past; a glance at my archives proves that I was once much more open and I can’t deny that many parts of daily life were much better during those times, specifically as relates to my wellbeing and consequent effect on everything around me.

… now that was a ridiculously long sentence.

I’m not sure if future posts will be much like this. I intend to be concise when discussing my ideas and thoughts, although maybe that has also changed recently during my long-form drought? I don’t know…

Adjusted for inflation, the original Mac cost $7000. I think Ben Thompson is correct insofar as the Vision line of products is intended to largely replace the Mac, eventually.

HEIC support in Safari is an interesting development.

Sad but unsurprising to see that Instagram came down hard on Ryan Barrett’s Atom app.

It’s past time that I stop giving these silos any thoughts at all with regard to improvements via the open ethos of the web.

Listening to 3005, by Childish Gambino 🎶