Thinking about the crappy replies to Josh Wardle’s news.

This doesn’t help the web at all.

You’re going to be an arsehole about a free website? Guess what, now fewer people are motivated to make good free websites.

I feel like there was something I wanted to communicate about the seemingly illusory nature of human identity, the criteria we use to decide when someone no longer gets our empathy, how little we actually know about each other, especially online…

– Simone Veil

The moment Kurt Cobain exhales during “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”

Is Micro.blog struggling to publish at the minute or is that just me?

The post was from Sunlit, which appears to have become slower when compared to the last round of publishing performance improvements to the app. Also, sharing to Sunlit from Photos is still broken.

Mac OS 12.2: Music app is still junk.

New Kid on the Blog

– Ulysses in 2021

Great to see Micro.blog included in the yearly review from Ulysses. This was included in their newsletter.

It would be good to see the Micro.blog team do this. Not even weekly; just something to help highlight events and the like.

Four months since my first Mac, and a month since the new Mac: on my phone I’ve started typing “System” when I want the Settings app.

0.91 + plug-ins: the new hotness

0.54 + custom theme: it just works

Ah I see Twitter Blue just lost yet another mark against Micro.blog.

The blissful lack of adverts has now been joined by the blissful lack of NFTs and the swill that accompanies it.

Time to give iCloud passwords a proper test-run.

Huh… export is not available for me in the 1Password app. 🧐

Edit: turns out you have to select a specific vault first.

Trying to use Apple Reminders in the same way I would Due and… yikes.

With the likes of Due and Fantastical I’ve come to expect a certain standard of natural language input. Neither Reminders nor Calendar from Apple can reach that standard.

Also makes me doubt Notes.

We’ve barely been living here, on the edge of the country, and already I find myself more and more drawn towards antipathy at the technological world; at the thought of constantly using a hand terminal; at the idea that these computers are automatically better than not.

The inability to remove Apple Music from the Music app is bad enough.

That you can’t do it when you’re not subscribed, and instead it turns entire sections of the app into nothing more than a billboard is gross.

What happened to “We can’t ship junk.”?

Published another batch of updates for TIL earlier on, including a new post type and filter.

The most fun was redesigning the posts footer, including category buttons:

Thanks to @amit for his code and to @frostedechoes for sharing said code!

Last week I brought @TIL back after the holiday break, which means in 20 minutes the weekly catch-up email will be published.

You can read more about ICYMI on the site, where you can also sign up.

The bloke’s an arsehole

😂

I spotted a Ghost blog without any labels on it.

Unsure if I should list that as a skill or problem.

The Pinebook Pro looks interesting…

I miss my iPad… it was still too limited for what I need in a primary machine but as a detachable, terminal screen it’s just perfect. Reading, concept work, video calls… just a great compliment to the computer.

To the people defending the thievery of Wordle by saying “but Lingo the TV show”:

Apps =/= TV shows

As soon as Micro.blog has account-switching on the web, I’ll be back on Safari. Firefox is… not going well.

Searched for “wordle” on the App Store. Have no idea which one is real and which ones are clones/scams.

Good job, Apple. 👍

Been catching up on Seth Godin’s podcast. Good stuff.

Today I Learned returned yesterday, and now I have released a new update that includes the new domain for the site:

today-i-learned.net

I’m happy to have also updated the site with the new footer, the design of which is now settled until 2.0 (months from now) at the earliest: