After an unintentional ten-day break, I’m back on my daily bullshit. I’ve been enjoying the freedom of the dot grid format in a journalling book, like rows of tiles waiting to be connected. 📙

Jumped on the Micro.blog iOS beta train. I was going to wait, for @TIL, however it’s become clear that it makes little sense to prioritise the old version at the moment. Eventually I will make guides and the like for the older versions but I need to focus on the majority use for now.

I have just, for the first time, seen the Orson Welles champagne outtakes. The look he gives the director at the very end is amazing 😂

I’m making this post for myself, since I will Bookmark it in Micro.blog, so that I have quick access to the Discover timeline for the Photoblogging Challenge in the Mac app.

• March Photoblogging on Discover
• March Photoblogging grid on Discover
• March Photoblogging FAQ

I was spoiled rotten yet again by Claire for my birthday. These Trakke slings have different lengths of zipped openings so I can now spend some time to decide what they would each be best carrying.

The solitude of the office is mitigated by my desk buddies.

🎵 Listening: Isolé - Les Gordon

This song is one of my current favourites. Had his work in rotation for about three years; it’s such a joy to find a new favourite artist at my age, in contradiction to the stereotype.

She was much more interested in claiming the new toy than going out, and given the weather I can’t say I blame her.

I can’t believe we’re still exposing people to DNS records. This is one of those issues wherein The Web really needs to get its shit together.

The new pen for Hogan’s journal, now secure.

Those full posts don’t have a limit. It’s the Micro.blog timeline that encourages the 280-character limit to make the timeline as readable as possible, not cluttered with long posts or “read more” links.

— Manton Reece, Rounding up to 300 characters

Seeing the bump to 600 happen in the counter is awesome. This is a very good change to Micro.blog. :)

🎵 Touch the Sky (feat. Lupe Fiasco) - Kanye West

From back when Ye just made great music, minus a lot of the bullshit.

My favourite thing about the pre-digital era of music was how I would get a record and I got the record; no censored nonsense, no weird changes for “special effects” or so-called “better versions”, and certainly no messing up my library via a black box of software.

Currently reading: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik 📚

Eight pages in and wow… I missed her writing. Such a fool for failing to read for several years.

Feels like “Feeds” should be a top-level item in the Micro.blog menu. When I know I want to do something there, I don’t automatically think “Go to Account” but instead I stop to try to remember before guessing wrong that it’s in “Design”. Might just be my shoddy memory, though.

Sometimes a 15-minute nap is equivalent to an espresso. ☕️

Apple needs to stop dicking around with their utility services like autofill on Safari.

It doesn’t “work like magic”. It fails plenty of times, with literally zero recourse. So just give me a button.

Signing up for 90 free days of MUBI, thanks to Letterboxd. Before completing sign up I am required to… enter my card details 😱

Mac apps are so damn good. It’s been over a year and I feel like I’m still just getting started.

Listening to On and On, Pt. 2 (feat. Ty) by Hocus Pocus 🎶

Solved a small and relatively simple puzzle in CSS. Getting back into the rhythm of this work and it feels so good. Will have TIL news very soon.

I think DVD is going to have the same revival as vinyl.

I think I’m ready to put Linkin Park and Audioslave back into rotation. Didn’t realise that I’d almost completely stopped listening to them. Death is funny that way, I guess.

I love the fact that my Micro.blog timeline still worked for plain text even when there was an issue with the CDN. Good old plain text… actually useful.

Our long national nightmare is over 😮‍💨