Finding new keyboard shortcuts that halve your workload feels so damn good.

And it runs at less than 1% CPU usage on an iPhone SE.

– Marco Arment, Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts

There are many reasons I’ve stuck with Overcast. This is not one of them but a delight to know nonetheless.

(Bonus: “Restored iOS 12 compatibility.")

My tolerance for advertising – especially that of low quality – has sunk to almost zero.

Un-following accounts on Micro.blog is much more difficult than doing the same on the silos. Signal-to-noise ratio is simply superior.

Now would be a good time to learn Hugo and the ins and outs of Micro.blog themes, huh.

TIL about ARS-based programming.

Enjoying nothing but Les Gordon right now. So damn good. 🎶

Do you know what’s better than a “Carer’s Awareness Day”?

Pay the fucking carers, that’s what.

Just because something is in “the News” doesn’t mean you are duty-bound to pay it any attention, let alone that which you can better use in other activities.

There’s something to be said for piss & vinegar.

Entirely done with shallow Influencers and people who lack the courage to commit truly to their work.

If you’re going to be shallow and lazy, at the very least go do it in private and spare the rest of us your terrible bullshit.

If you think switching social networks can mask the basic fact that a lot of humans are terrible to each other on purpose, you’re in for a surprise.

– Stephen Hackett

I can’t stop thinking about these three tweets. Ironically, I could only find them via the Wayback Machine.

POSSE is one of the biggest negative forces actively maintained by the IndieWeb.

  • Cross-posted items rarely look good.
  • Technical burden on both user and provider.
  • False sense of presence.

Inevitably, it’s largely a waste of time outside of vacuous brand type behaviour.

If Viticci doesn’t appear on The Talk Show, now of all times, then what even is the point.

I’m fascinated by the perception of touch-based technology, specifically iOS on the iPad. I can’t wait to see what people of younger generations say about it in the future.

In 10 years from now, will functional websites still exist?

(“functional” = useful and usable, rather than simply landing pages for links to silos or web apps)

Replies hosted at your own blog – Manton Reece

It’s a good job I’m getting back to work. 😂

Final site update: Back to work

In conjunction with my new post questioning the value of the independent web, I’ve just read the following posts from @ayjay with whom I feel at least partial kinship;

I’m scaling back my blogging, to see how well that works.

I’ve stopped manually creating excerpts of my personal posts for Micro.blog. It’s too much hassle.

I’ll continue to do it for @til, however.