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.

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.