This article was originally written for the February 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus Update as of August 2022: I have basically settled on Twitterrific on iOS/iPadOS and Twitter on macOS. I don’t love Twitter, but I use the heck out of it for one reason only: following the Australian National Basketball League (@NBL) and the community of passionate fans around it.
I’ve had an adventure with my OWC Thunderbay 4-disk drive array this week. I’ve emerged the other side, ultimately unscathed, but the journey certainly could have been easier. Let’s take a look. It all started when I reached the capacity of my RAID-5 formatted array of 4 x 2TB drives. The 6TB of storage this provided me was almost full. This array sits in a cupboard connected to a headless M1 mac mini, so all operations need to be managed through screen sharing with Screens or SSH.
A photo from Yardie Creek during our recent break in Exmouth, Western Australia.
Incredible animation and a non-stop action adventure, with just enough Pixar feels added.
It is wonderful to be attending the Basketball WA Awards with my wife Hannah Beazley MLA.
I am loving Arc Browser, and I’m not even using the fancy “new” stuff it contains. Just it as a browser is a great experience.
An incredible story well told.
I’m not an academic but that is not stopping me from futzing around with Zotero.
Enjoying a holiday read. A View to Die For by @cheri
Finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚 I didn’t want a story justifying the use of checklists; I wanted a book providing a guide to the development of best practice checklists.
My love affair with Logseq continues unabated. I enjoy using the software - even through the weird and buggy bits. There is an immediacy to it that I like, which Craft has been unable to match. Craft was always too fussy, and I found myself becoming distracted by fonts and styles. The best comparison I can make is that Craft is the modern Microsoft Word, while Logseq would be BBEdit.
In E063 of @hemisphericviews we talk to @ericmwalk to find out how he is so good at Arcadia. Plus we pontificate profusely pertaining to Podcasting 2.0.
I made a caraway seed cake. When I was a schoolboy, my Mom would sometimes make one of these during the day. When I got home we would eat it alongside a cup of tea using our fancy tea cups. This cake today has provided me with both deliciousness and nostalgia.
Scotty Jackson has been working hard and putting up with my bug reports regarding his Shortcut to create a daily note in Agenda with links to calendar events and OmniFocus tasks. The Shortcut is now flawless - and amazing!
Today I had a conversation with a magpie. 🐧
Why’s everybody talking about Obsidian? Loqseq is where it’s at! I’m digging it.
A few light-hearted moments scattered amongst a sea of meh.
Massive fan service and I’m here for it.
I’ve been getting back into Agenda as a work diary and daily tracker. The app is brought to a new level of usefulness thanks to the ingenuity of Shortcuts developer Scotty Jackson. Scotty Jackson: This is all about my Rapid Log Shortcut, for use with the Agenda app … and my Agenda Daily Log Shortcut. The basic conceit of this Shortcut is that it appends provided input to note in Agenda.
I’ve discovered another Read-it-Later service, Omnivore. Hard to find out much more about it though - has anybody else heard of it?