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.
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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.