This article was originally written for the December 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus Are you a Terminal wizard? A command line guru? A shell superstar? No, neither am I. From time to time I attempt to teach myself. It never sticks. As a result I know just enough about the macOS (and Linux, I suppose) terminal (bash/zsh) as the faded memory of a series of beginner courses permit.
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 9: bloom (@thedimpause)
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 8: union (@odd)
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 7: park @dejus
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 6: silhouette @otaviocc
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 5: Earth @dfj
CJ Eller – @cjeller on micro.blog – had a take on Personal Knowledge Management that resonated with me, in his articleGarbage Heap: I’ve bounced off of personal knowledge management tools like crazy. Wikis? Digital gardens? Zettelkasten systems? Nothing sticks. I’m a nerd, and I love the idea of capturing all the things I read, the information I learn, and being able to harvest it later for some great good.
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 4: thorny @ronguest
Finished the first three episodes of Shining Girls on AppleTV+. That service is really delivering quality content; firing on all cylinders. Netflix could learn a thing or two. 📺
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 3: experimental (my prompt!)
Knotwords is a fun game. It has that classic Zach Gage vibe to it.
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 2: photo @agilelisa
Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 1: switch @ridwan
Hello @Burk - your username is capital. That’s odd.
Our One Prime Plus members have received their bonus episode! @hemisphericviews @martinfeld @burk
With the probable demise of Twitter, it will join other social networks that have already met their demise (MySpace, Facebook, Instagram) with me, I am not that worried. Micro.blog will remain my generalised blogging location, allowing me to post whatever I like (and optionally cross-post to Twitter if I feel I must). What I’ve also found more recently is that Discord has become an unexpected surprise hit for focused communities. I only participate in four, and I wouldn’t want it to grow much beyond this, but they have each delivered an excellent place for virtual gathering, without anybody portraying negative behaviours, trying to sell NFTs, or undertake any other annoying actions that one sees elsewhere online.
It’s great to see so many new (and returning) people posting to micro.blog following the Musk Twitter news. I hope they stay and build this great community.
This season I have taken the job as a commentator for the NBL1 West’s Perth Redbacks. The NBL1 is the league directly beneath the national NBL competition and is broken into State-based divisions. I had to miss the first couple of games due to COVID protocols, so last night was my first behind the microphone. The games are streamed via the league’s website. The direct links to the videos of the games I called last night are:
Thanks @jean and @manton and @burk - I love being a part of micro.blog!
Despite owning the PowerPack, I’ve switched away from Alfred and back to Launchbar.