Now that I’ve remembered the folks at reMarkable are European, or at least European-based, I have also remembered why they stay in my thoughts when thinking about different ways to approach my digital writing.

Such a nice experience to not get shafted by exchange rates and delivery costs.

None of them have walked away yet, though this is still early days for this part of the experiment.

A dog and two cats, all eating from their bowls in a line next to each other with two water bowls separating the dog from the two cats.

After a whole day of exhausting cat work, a well earned rest.

Top-down view of a black and white cat, curled up in her bed, asleep.

Glass now has in-app announcements and community features, including notification controls for when these are published.

This is a great idea. A good way to help people stay up to date with the events of your platform; it rewards the most enthusiastic people, which is good all-around.

This has quickly become one of my favourites, for a variety of common note-taking and specifically for my daily task cards. A feat of engineering for which I am grateful.

Close photo of a pen — the Pilot G-2 07 — atop a desk.

Fixed something in the theme for TIL that had been bothering me for a long time. I would never think of calling myself a developer or designer but I have always enjoyed figuring out these problems with a mix of CSS and HTML.

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. 📙

The empty page of a notebook, the “Theme System journal”

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.

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.

Two small, pouch-style bags hanging from a door-hung rack, on top of hanging jackets. One is closed, the other open.

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

A selection of four figurines — a Beholder from Dungeons & Dragons, Rian from The Dark Crystal, Grogu from Star Wars, and Wall-E — and a die on top of a monitor stand, all positioned in front of a desktop computer.

🎵 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.

A black and white cat, sitting atop a scratching furniture toy, looking directly at the camera.

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 side of a notebook, with a pen loop attached and filled with a colour-matching yellow pen.

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.