Two episodes into Secret Invasion. Olivia Colman is such an upgrade for Marvel. 📺

The more I use TaskPaper, the happier I become. Plain text… after all of these years, it has never once ruined my day.

It should be illegal for estate agents to describe 80Mbps as “Super-fast”.

Finally completed switching the publishing schedule for @TIL from Fantastical to TaskPaper. This makes me happy for a number of reasons, not least of all is the fact that the work continues whilst simultaneously my working environment is greatly improved.

Kudos to the brilliant indie developers who have to tolerate the terrible words of people who seem to think that an insult is constructive.

You’re truly doing great work by parsing out the incompetent communication of people who, for whatever reason, think that being mean is a route to success.

Pro tip: do not miss the last step of your stairs, fall, and damage your toes. Turns out you need those for doing basically everything!

Claire got a job offer for her dream location!

um… now we need to move again

I am “Famous internet people who I have looked up to are starting to get diagnosed with cancer” years-old.

… why?

— the very definition of life with a cat.

It’s been fifteen months since Hogan became a part of the family.

Can confirm we’ll always have at least one Retriever/Labrador/Retriever-Labrador in our family from now on.

Joel’s “baby girl” in episode 8 still knocks me out. Oof. 📺

I’ve gone from being somebody who has multiple CARROT widgets on my phone to being somebody who maybe checks the weather here or there. And I feel much better for it.

The next move: get a digital radio for the kitchen, with which I will sometimes catch the weather of a morning.

We recently watched John Wick 4, Dungeons & Dragons, and Guardians of the Galaxy 3. All very good films, in different ways. 📽

Today is a very Monday day.

Updated my MB bio:

“herder of small beasts” -> “herder of beasts”

Hogan is in no way “small”.

testing mentions:

after a bracket (@challenges

before a bracket @challenges)

with a comma @challenges,

One of the things I miss about the old social web is how much easier it was to avoid spoilers for films and television shows.

via Micro.blog News:

Fixed an issue processing some Substack feeds. Also now prefers the full-length text of a post (newsletter email?) from Substack.

Ahem. That’s content blob, thank you very much.

Ideas inspire the work.

The work inspires ideas.

A 30-minute nap at midday is just what I needed 😌

I’ve been comfortable on Micro.blog basically since the day I joined. That’s over 5 years of feeling comfortable. Any changes made to the platform are unlikely to be the cause of my leaving.

This is one of the reasons I no longer share any feature requests I might have.

And that’s all good :)

The sudden presence of Threads, and its use by people who are literally saying “I never had Twitter and don’t know what this is” is a reminder to those of us in the world of the open web and blogging:

For lots of people Meta = the web. And it has been so for a long time.

My brain is wired up… wrong/right:

I never cared about the “live” aspect of Twitter. Having lived a life like lots of other people lucky enough to do so in a rich country, with approximately zero access to a live feed of the world; I was, and am happy with keeping news at a reasonable distance.

I’m definitely getting older.

Whilst I continue to dislike certain aspects of Meta, I am also unconvinced that vitriolic and sudden reactions truly contribute in any way to actually building something.

It is so easy to be angry on the web. The real work is difficult, and requires a level head.

This new Threads app seems like a way for Meta to attempt to improve its reputation for the people who care about such things.

The scale at which they operate means they can pretend to care about the open web, and it doesn’t matter when they lie about such things.