Following the example set by @Burk, I too have expunged TextExpander from my macOS life. The shortcuts I need now live in Keyboard Maestro. Jason put his in Alfred.
My kingdom for a good mouse that works with macOS. Logitech MX Master 3 - garbage drivers cause lag all over the place. Razer Viper Ultimate - doesn’t work with macOS. Apple Magic Mouse - ergonomic hell. Why is this so hard?
Solve-A-Mystery Games by Society of Curiosities looks like it could be fun. Thanks @Burk for the recommendation.
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I’ve also enabled Tap to Click on the iPad Magic Keyboard. The civilised way to click on all Apple trackpad devices.
I’ve remapped the Caps Lock key to be Escape on my new iPad Magic Keyboard. That seems much more useful.
Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. 📚 Some good ideas that fortunately I’ve already implemented but the book has encouraged me to take it further.
Stickers! @hemisphericviews @manton @burk @martinfeld
Finished reading: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📚 An interesting book that draws heavily on Thinking, Fast and Slow: Kahneman, Daniel which I also recommend you read. We humans need to apply back-stories to stochastic events in an effort to make sense of the world. This makes events logical and explicable to our mind. Yet if they were so logical, why would we have not predicted them?
Installing macOS apps from the Terminal with brew install appname is so much quicker and easier than browsing to a website, finding the download, messing with the .dmg, deleting the .dmg… I love it.
This looks to be an interesting podcast @jean @Burk overcast.fm
The @hemisphericviews empire has grown to include an Apple Music playlist featuring favourite songs from your three hosts, @martinfeld @Burk. Sorry Spotify listeners - we can’t help you.
How good does this look? @vincent @hemisphericviews
Give People Space
The Neuroscience of Busyness - Study Hacks - Cal Newport:
You want more out of your employees? Radically reduce their responsibilities, then leave them alone to execute. You want your small business to grow? Focus your attention on a single target, and give yourself the space to do it better.
This sounds right to me.
What happened to all the Milton Friedman acolytes? The business lobby has fretted for years about national indebtedness. Now it’s not an issue. I’ve always been a Keynesian so it makes sense to me, but where’s the backbone of those that argued tooth and nail for austerity for such a long time?
It’s cool when you see your podcast’s colour scheme specifically made available in an app. Thanks @vincent - Gluon is the best!
Changing the Mac HD Icon
Does anyone know where I can get a decent icon file of a MacBook Air (Space Grey)? I want to replace the hard disk icon of Macintosh HD.
I’ve finally been able to get rid of the stupid mechanical disk icon. My Macs don’t even have those sort of hard drives. Now I have nice icons that represent the computer I’m using.
Source: Quick Tip: High quality Mac icons are coming from inside your Mac! – Six Colors
The new Gluon app icons are amazing @vincent 🔥🔥🔥
SkedPal
SkedPal - the smart calendar app that schedules your to-do’s:
Do you thrive on schedules and action plans? Tell SkedPal the things you want to do and advanced algorithms will build a smart schedule for you.
I’m digging into this planning software, despite the 🚨 around some elements. Those concerns, namely being:
- the current release v2.9 is creaky and ugly.
- the beta v3 has been in development for over a year.
- the last blog post was in mid-2020.
- the user forums are quiet.
- No CalDAV support so I have to do a Google two-step into my Fastmail experience.
- it’s expensive.
Despite all of these misgivings, I am enjoying using it to schedule my days. It’s value proposition is the way it automatically time-blocks days based on all the task criteria while still taking into account your fixed calendar events.
This is basically the solution I’m looking for. So despite all the misgivings, I might throw my money at the company and see if it works for me.
At least as a paying customer I will apparently get access to the beta 3 software.
A simple bookmarklet to post links to Micro.blog based on the current page in your desktop browser. Supports text selections.Source: Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet – Colin Devroe
Seems to work a treat. Thanks @cdevroe.
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