Arcane Tech Tip:
When using YouTube, specifically on the browser, pressing ‘k’ will pause the video. Spacebar might work but mostly that just moves you down to the comments section.
(it has literally been like this for years)
I went from 33.6kbps dial-up to speeds of 1Mb/s on Rogers Wave. Incredible!
– James Koole, Getting Back to an Independent Web
A glorious aspect of the open web is this: people telling stories.
Google-backed startup Mobvoi just announced TicPods Free
– TicPods Free are like AirPods for Android
This is both a terrible name and ripe for numerous mocking from the Apple punditry. Still, I hope I’ll be able to pre-order them.
A big lie of the closed web is that you can have a frictionless experience in there. You can’t. It’s pure PR spin from corporations in an attempt to misdirect people’s attention from the pile of crap they are peddling, and nothing else.
I always underestimate how long something is going to take.
– Hank Green in How to Stop Being Late Forever (includes bonus homescreen!)
Same Hank… same.
Part 1.b of improving my health: my skin does not react well to the material the Flex is made of. Oh well, I’ll get to testing out other Fitbit options in the future.
One of my favourite things about Casey Neistat’s vlog is the music he uses in the videos. I made a playlist of mixtapes made by Discoverthevibes. 🎶
The official Micro.blog metal band shall be called Apolacyptic. Thanks, @JacksonOfTrades. 🤘
Two tracks on Bandcamp that I’ve been meaning to share:
🎶
Micro Monday? How about the Micro.blog slack. It’s more than a simple source of help; different members of the community are in there, passionate about Micro.blog, and often willing to enjoy a good chat.
Availability of trackpads (whatever variation) for Windows 10 is a shit show. Hopefully Microsoft are interested in genuinely competing with Apple; in that scenario I’m sure they’d have to seriously consider producing such hardware.
Between @vishae, @matigo, and myself all talking about new homes I think we need a Micro.blog Moving Club where we can all vent about things, heh. Actually, maybe a hashmoji will do… 🏠🏡🏘️
ASCII shrug is the canonical web shrug.
There’s a pretty good conversation regarding multi-platform support for Micro.blog and related issues. I have thoughts about this but for now just wanted to share it.
Part 1 of improving and better maintaining my health.
Hah, coincidence: I’m catching up on Core Intuition and recently listened to Manton and Daniel talk about people who react to product updates with “but what about this other thing” and then in my tl I see people complaining in the aftermath of Micro.blog support for microcasts.
I can’t use the app (hi 👋 third-party devs) but native support for microcasts is just the right opportunity for people like me, having stopped short of producing audio.
Bravo, Manton. 👏
A particularly good post from Jason Kottke about why we do things. It pairs nicely with his recent appearance on The Talk Show.
Inspired by Marcelo’s latest edition of his homescreen experiment, here’s my latest homescreen.
Homescreen: April 2018
So we’re all clear:
If Jack Dorsey could be Mark Zuckerberg he would take that deal in a fucking hearbeat.
Weighing up the £200 lump-sum cost of yearly WP-hosted (to get access to plugins) against the cost (monetary, time, energy) of self-hosted WP. 🤔
(Seriously, as soon as MB has just a few more features I’ll be ready to switch my site right over, even if the monthly cost goes up.)
HP are about to release the Chromebook x2, a Chrome OS tablet. Considering how happy I am with my sub-£200 HP Chromebook, I’ll definitely take a look at this when it ships.