> sees WhatsApp banner on Netflix
> immediately takes a much more critical eye to everything watched on Netflix
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Current version of my profile for the web: <simonwoods.online>
My blog stays where it has been for a while: <blog.simonwoods.online>
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I’m going to spend a lot of time investigating if it is possible to do the following:
Use software, and use the web without any of my activity being tracked.
That includes finding the research of other people, from across different parts of the world and our societies.
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I have yet to find a network that is as nearly as bullet-proof as
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Instead of trying that shiny new app or service or platform, which you inevitably not use very much before moving onto the next distraction, try asking yourself this:
What do I want to do?
Then when you are trying things out, ask yourself:
What is this in service of?
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Why couldn’t Keybase stay away from the platform disease? Why ruin an authenticator by trying to be a social platform, at which you will inevitably be terrible?
Just make good things that have limited scope. Focus on your thing and make it better and better, that’s it.
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Red Dwarf is 32 years old. 😱
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I’m gonna drop WorkFlowy, for good this time. The way they hijack the keyboard when multi-selecting items, specifically in iOS, feels terrible.
Now to decide if I need a cross-platform outliner that better treats the lists as plain text, or if I just don’t need one at all.
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SHE IS PRECIOUS 😭😭😭
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WENDY IS HERE 😍😍😍😍
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Email newsletters should be text-only. Y/N?
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I miss @smokey. I hope everything is ok, buddy.
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I’m starting to think The Internet isn’t the best place in which to make jokes.
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We have a special visitor stopping by tomorrow; a golden labrador by the name of Wendy!
Today I am preparing the house for this auspicious occasion, including lots of cleaning and tidying. Yes, that’s right, I put more effort into preparing for visiting animals than I do people.
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First imagine the person about whom you are talking is in fact the most important person in the world to you, then go ahead and publish that post.
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Windows: “Select a time to restart”
Me: “How about no”
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Basecamp is easily one of the best Windows apps I have used.
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Substack has a built-in PO Box, you say. 🤔
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Naming things is fun. 😃
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Me:
I am eschewing this streaming trash and managing my MP3s!
Me, five seconds into dealing with duplicates:
… shit.
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I forgot just how nice Basecamp is to use.
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… the more a writer attributes the actions of Apple, an enormous corporation with thousands of talented employees, to Steve Jobs, who is just one man and neither an engineer nor a designer, the more likely the writer is an idiot, a hack, or both.
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When even people like John Gruber, who have lent full-throated support for blog feed technology, are advising their readers to use Twitter notifications as an RSS replacement then you know that no single web technology can carry the heavy load of the entire populace.
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I feel so sorry for the people at Fantastical.
The mob mentality of Twitter is going to damage the prospects for the 3rd party ecosystem. Who could possibly be motivated to try to make a living when people lash out in this immature and dangerous way.