The latest product from the folks at Good Enough, Chicken, looks good. It reminds me of ambient workspaces, which I’d like to try out.
I like the idea of being near but unobtrusive.
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The idea that people will pay to support a free product is very nice, but largely unrealistic. Most simply won’t.
— Ben Werdmuller, There’s no money in free software
An observation I wish I could tell my younger self.
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And my antihistamine has also returned. That was two awful days without it. Phew!
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testing the latest update…
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I gave Pixelfed a whirl for my little video and it was fine. Unfortunately the app doesn’t work — it’s in beta — so I had to use a method involving more work.
I’m going to test YouTube, which I suspect will be much easier. If so, I’ll use YouTube for now, and then Micro.blog as soon as I can.
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I was looking at the Indie App Sales shared by @maique, found ephemera and immediately thought of @numericcitizen.
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Looking at the original introduction to TIL and I am struck that everything included has changed, to one degree or another. I’m ok with that.
The smallest degree of change has been for the Micro.blog usernames (to uppercase) and the About page URL (to custom domain). I’m also ok with that.
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Work is progressing. The Sidekick is gorgeous and works so well for how I like to work; a wonderful addition from the folks at Cortex.
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An unexpected gift whilst I was gone; Patrick Rhone started a new blog and it is of course brilliant.
Given that we’ve just moved to a part of this country in which two ideas are immediately present; independence is paramount and only trust in others can build our world; I am grateful for this.
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I failed to participate in the photoblogging challenge — it was a hilariously short-sighted goal tbh — but I have got some work done for TIL and blogged a little, even in our current transitory state.
I’ll take the little wins.
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Absence and Changelog
Myself, Claire, and the beasties are moving… again! It’s an exciting opportunity, and this time I am freeing up the appropriate space to make it work well. As such any posting here will be sporadic at best.
On this site:
- The home page is now a single-page design with plain text info and a navigation menu.
- Hello is my new page for an introduction to where I am, why, and the best ways to send me a message.
- Links is my new page for getting quick access to my work and related sites.
- Now is my new page for my current status.
Elsewhere, I have a new email address that I am using exclusively for speaking to other folks: hi@swoods.net — I am happy to receive any and all messages about anything at all.
Also, I have reactivated my photo blog. This is primarily for the Micro.blog Photoblogging Challenge but I would love to keep the blog up once that is complete, not least because our new home promises to give us easy access to a variety of awe-inspiring locations.
Finally, as a result of the move, the ensuing chaos, and my determination to mitigate the massive potential for health-endangering stress I am also shelving public updates for TIL. The work will continue where I can fit it in — switching to all-laptop computing after almost two years with the desktop should be fun — but I cannot justify fitting unpaid work alongside The Move. As with the photoblogging, I am already impatient to get back to full working status on TIL; especially with regard to the imminent updates.
We’re holding our breath for this move, since it has the potential to be the last time we ever cross county borders for home and as such I cannot wait to get settled into a house in which we can properly commit to an ever-growing list of goals to accomplish and desires to fulfil.
In the meantime I’ll see you on the Micro.blog timeline, via email, or elsewhere on the web. 👋
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Using the same trick as last time and bookmarking the Photoblogging Prompts to give me quick access to them outside of Gluon. 📷
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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. 📔
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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— the very definition of life with a cat.
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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.
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testing mentions:
after a bracket (@challenges
before a bracket @challenges)
with a comma @challenges,
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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.