Need to make a note of Charlie Monroe’s upcoming video player so that I have some chance of remembering. I’m going to buy this thing without trying it; that’s how good I find Downie and Permute to be.
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ICYMI: The Analogue Tools Meet-up is due to take place tomorrow. Follow Halsted’s instructions if you’re interested! 🖋️📝
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One of my decisions about becoming a software developer was whether to put my effort into native Apple development or not. With the company’s latest childish outburst, I feel less inclined to do so.
Twenty-seven years later and “the Crazy Ones”, as a notion in this company is dead.
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TIL that Punkt. have made a smart phone, which runs on an operating system called Apostrophy. According to CrackBerry the system is based on GrapheneOS, which is built using the part of Android that is independent from Google’s control of data.
It’s interesting. I still have my eye on the MP02.
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The latest @effinbirds looked directly into my soul.
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It’s great to more Micro.blog community groups starting up.
As well as the Analogue Tools Meet-up I think it would be fun to have;
- a remote co-working space;
- a shared analogue space (co-working but for journaling, note-taking, general stationery time);
- and coffee hour (casual chat, catch-up).
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Regarding the case for .bar, @leonp asks:
… but how do you get everyone using it?
For everyone: Keep talking about it.
For the people who like to move between hosts: Demand support of it.
For the people who find themselves in a position to elevate it: Take that opportunity when it arises.
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Riffing on @numericcitizen’s recent post about Micro.blog taglines:
Micro.blog: Write. And share.
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I just played CGP Grey’s One-in-a-Million Game. Super fun!
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The pinned profiles feature of Gluon is so good that it should be part of the official Micro.blog platform ASAP. I want it on the Mac, web, phone… everywhere.
Also: provide a reminder to folks that they can put @news and @help in there. Include those in a bundle with Manton and Jean.
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They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ’em
— Rage Against the Machine, Bulls on Parade
Almost thirty years ago.
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After 18 months of being broken, the category pages for @TIL are now working again! This is all thanks to the collaborative spirit from the Help forums, for which I am again thankful.
Thanks to @cfristrom, @sod, and @manton an important part of TIL is back up and running. 🙌
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I’m pretty sure I’m done with maintenance updates for TIL now.
Next up: some off-site fun and ✨more Orchid✨.
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I’m also super thankful that we didn’t grow by some scary massive number. Hooray for more slowly-paced, sustainable growth!
— Adam Neatnik, 2023 omg.lol Recap
One of the many ways Adam and Manton are quite similar, all within the context of a thing I believe is important:
It is very easy to say “things should be better”, however what truly matters is when you have this opinion and then do the work.
Adam and Manton are more than willing to put their money where their mouth is, at a time when it is so easy to simply mouth off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hire more writers.
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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.
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Well, how about being really appalling when he was fifty.
When discussing David Cameron on Have I Got News For You eight years ago, Ian Hislop spoke to a long-running and crucial flaw in our society; our inability to focus on what really matters.
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Breaking news from the village.
(testing the fancy new image uploader @danielpunkass put into the MarsEdit micropost feature)
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The imminent death of TinyLetter (h/t @ablaze@mastodon.social) inevitably causes me to think about the newsletter feature of Micro.blog, and how valuable it is to have within the greater package of Micro.blog itself. It’s as if the product is insulated from typical buy-and-destroy events like this.