Unpacking > Packing

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iA Writer -> Library -> “til” folder -> New Folder -> “design”

Using hardware keyboard with iPad:

Settings —> search “cursor” —> select “Gliding Cursor” —> increase gliding cursor speed.

This thing is set so slow that it contributes to the feeling that the machine is actively getting in your way. Helps to make it faster.

Apple Announces New Audio Features for Apple Music Subscribers - MacStories

… which Apple confirmed to The Verge, is an Apple Music exclusive. In other words, you won’t be able to purchase lossless versions of music from the iTunes Store.

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Open Twitter -> Settings -> Data usage -> Video autoplay -> Never

We just think that surfing the web with a decent screen and physical keyboard is simply more productive and comfortable.

The folks at Mudita are saying the right things. The Pure phone looks promising but I’m definitely waiting for reviews before even considering it.

We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should take no more than a month.

This is part of the message you get when exporting data from Goodreads. Yikes.

One of the smaller notes of this preview for the upcoming Micro.blog updates that has me as excited as the headline features is near the end of Manton’s post:

… such as (finally!) editing replies.

🙌🙌🙌

The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.

– Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee

Our very own ICE for just £400 million per year.

I know that I have blood on my hands by now.

– Sophie Zhang

A data scientist formerly employed by Facebook as part of its moderation efforts against corruption has spoken out. If you’re going to keep using Facebook, at least read about the cost of that decision.

It was impossible to speak to a human at Instagram … It is like they don’t want to be contacted.

– Emma Heathcote-James, via the BBC: ‘Scammer clone my business on Instagram’

A frightening and depressingly familiar story.

If you are cloned, take a photo of yourself with some official ID and email Facebook

– advice from Jake Moore, security specialist at anti-virus company ESET

I loathe the degree to which so much of our society has surrendered its power to shitty companies.

There’s a lot of value in slow thinking. You use the non-lizard side of your brain. You make more deliberate decisions. You prioritize design over instant gratification. You can “check” your gut instincts ...

… a good idea isn’t good unless it’s gonna do good.

– Hank Green, I Don’t Know What Work Is

Vine in maintenance mode > every version of Twitter for the past 3 years

Oh look. It’s me, an idiot:

Micro.blog will very likely be the last online community for which I create an account for something approaching personal use.

Patrick Rothfuss is back to blogging:

Just a little thing to remind me that not everything is covid. That there’s still joy to be had in the world.

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They do simple but helpful things, like adding open graph and Twitter cards for rich previews of content on various platforms, site search and footnote popups.

Testing the Quotebacks add-on for Firefox

I’ve thought of an ending for my book… ‘And he lived happily ever after… to the end of his days.’

😔

Just quit Facebook.

— People for whom absolutist positions carry few, if any real consequences.

Shit dog!

— Morty 💬

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wiseman’s Fear 💬

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be … But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

— Patrick Rothfuss 💬

Sandra: You didn’t have to sell us this house.

Martin: Didn’t we?

— Bait 💬