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Things I’m transferring manually since the built-in import/export functions aren’t playing well with each other:
- iTunes music -> Spotify
- Overcast podcasts -> Pocket Casts
- TickTick to-do -> Wunderlist
Annoyingly the move to Wunderlist is temporary. :/
Marco Arment’s recent observation about software and how Apple appears to be continuing to decline made me think of something else I recently came across: Jared Sinclair’s post about Architecture.
If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams.
Understanding that Micro.blog is not an attempt to replace Twitter feature-for-feature is the key to understanding the whole idea.
Liverpool’s Camp And Furnace is holding an anti-Valentine’s Day event, “Burn Your Ex – Anti-Valentine’s Disco”. This is brilliant.
Jason Kottke writes about Jade Hameister in A woman’s place is at the South Pole
Reminder: if you’re spending any time making shitty comments on YouTube then you are wasting your life. Jade’s phenomenal burn reveals the stark contrast between her and those assholes.
Claire Field is going to talk about pain at a conference for the TM Society and I couldn’t be more proud, both as her fiancé and carer. Her hard work, unwavering compassion, and indomnitable spirit continue to astound me. 🙌
I encourage you to click the button at the bottom of this post and help Aleksandar Todorović break the law.
Three new things I have recently started using are making me happy:
As a Windows user I am actually relieved to have found all of these, especially with my current goals in mind.
M A N I A, the new Fall Out Boy album is pretty fucking good.
Two recommendations in one: the Instantaneous Gram episode of the Do By Friday podcast includes a mostly spoilery discussion about the Amazon Original show, Patriot. I find the former to be therapeutic and the latter is achingly good.
Great post from @cdevroe in which he interviews @manton about Micro.blog. A good way to introduce people to the platform.
I’ve just finished listening to “After Laughter”, Paramore’s latest album for the second time. “Tell Me How” is brilliant.
Shahid Kamal makes a clear case for the lack of Pro in the MacBook Pro
Obviously this is not the first time this issue has been written about, nor will it likely be the last but I enjoy the concise manner in which Shahid makes his points. It’s fair to say that the lack of real alternative options is hurting the Pro side of Apple’s computers right now.