Now and then I’ll remember cmd-U on the Micro.blog app for the Mac, and it’s always a treat.

May peace and prosperity find you, and your days become filled with the joy your heart seeks. 🍻

Time to start my holiday break. I’ll still be around, mostly for short posts and existing conversations.

Now for relaxing and recovering from what has been a year. 😮‍💨

testing

2022 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺

2023 🇮🇱 and 🇵🇸

2024 🇻🇪 and 🇬🇾

People hoping for good open web experiences with Threads is a perfect example of how easily we forget the experience of being hit on the head.

Better sleep. Woke up well. ☕️

It’s a shame the collaborative playlist feature for Apple Music didn’t make it into the new updates. That would have been nice to have during the holiday season.

I should have put money on it.

Post-move progress report:

Finding it easier with each day to continue my previous work which had stalled at the last place; introducing structure, intent, and clarity into my daily life. Routines are now possible, which feels exciting.

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.

I started the process of fixing a broken book cover for Micro.blog Books and just gave up; there are too many awkward steps and that’s after you’ve discovered the secret handshake to even attempt to help.

It’d be great if enthusiasts had an easier time with this kind of thing.

Hire more writers.

— Giles Turnbull

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.

I used to be all “ew that link is more than one place, how gross” and now I’m all…

“Please.
make. it. easy. to. link. to. your. thing.
Put that link EVERYWHERE!
It’s the web for fuck’s sake.”

When you’re working on six things at once and in one moment they go from your head as a simultaneous arrangement of enticing opportunities, onto paper as part of the publishing schedule.

That… feels good.

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.

My Micro.blog timeline is an ambience of its own. A pleasant read-through even when I’m taking a quick break, refreshing and restorative.

Thank you to everybody I follow, and those folks who I discover on a regular basis. 😌

The Apple clone of Wrapped is awkward enough to access on my computer that I gave up.

Breaking news from the village.

(testing the fancy new image uploader @danielpunkass put into the MarsEdit micropost feature)

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.

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.

TIL Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are now known as National Landscapes.

Meh.

Past Me was too cheap to get ethernet included in the iMac and now I am motivated by the desire to upgrade ASAP.

I am somewhat annoyed but mostly embracing the positive energy of having a goal in sight.

Happy Turkey Day, US friendos ✌️

I am surprised to learn that you can’t easily copy and/or duplicate posts and pages in MarsEdit. This seems like such basic and obvious functionality in comparison to some of its many tricks.