That Olympics basketball game was disappointing. Yet still a chance for Australia’s best ever result - bronze up for grabs!
Extension apps in the macOS menubar may as well be called Tribbles.
OmniFocus vs. Things
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
I’m thinking about a transition from OmniFocus to Things. I’ve used OF since launch, so this is no trivial matter. This line from a post by micro.blog user @40Tech resonates: OmniFocus almost begs you to add projects and contexts. I never seem to gain value from contexts/tags, but I add them every time, because nature abhors a vacuum. My main area of doubt is templating. I’ve got a nice Drafts template built that populates a standardised OmniFocus project.
I don’t love the direction OmniFocus is moving in. SkedPal is full-on and challenging. I’ve never tried Things. Should I?
Great job Boomers, taking out Argentina. Now on to meet USA. 🏀
The FaceTime Centre Stage thing on the M1 iPad is amazing. Used it for the first time today and it was like having an on-site camera man. Mind blowing.
Time Machine just saved my butt. @HemisphericViews
USA Lose Another Basketball Game
Monday, July 26, 2021
This is what Damian Lillard said after the USA lost to France in their first 🏀 game of the Tokyo Olympics: “I think that’s why a lot of people will make it seem like the end of the world, but our job as professionals and this team and representing our country at the Olympics, we’ve got to do what’s necessary and we still can accomplish what we came here to accomplish.
I like this quote. Richard Feynman via the brilliant weekly letter from @rishabh
I’ve bought Acorn from Flying Meat Software. It’s 50% off at the moment. Another tool to hang on the software shadow board.
🇯🇵
Saturday, July 24, 2021
Watching the Olympics is making me want to travel to Japan again. Not that it is remotely possible, of course, given our close companion, COVID. I love the cleanliness, the order, the food, the hot springs, and the structured culture of the place. The little bit more than one week of my life that I’ve spent in Japan was not enough. Hopefully I can find a way to get back there at some point in my life.
BBEdit 14
Thursday, July 22, 2021
I want to use and love BBEdit. I bought version 13 with a similar thought and feeling. That purchase seems like it was only a few months ago - in fact, I checked to see if I was eligible for the free upgrade. According to my receipt stored in 1Password, however, my v13 license was acquired on 21 December 2019. Time flies, especially in 2020, the year of our COVID.
I’m ‘meh’ about Brisbane winning the Olympics. They’re expensive, a security challenge, and the Olympics are in my view an event that has become too large. Is there the same sense of exhilaration about Brisbane winning as there was for Sydney 2000. I don’t think so.
I did the Today at Apple tutorial and drew myself as a Peanuts character.
BBEdit 14.0
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
I barely scratch the surface with my use of BBEdit. I’m not a coder. I use it for a bit of Markdown text editing (when I’m not using one of the other myriad Markdown apps I own) and for doing other small pieces of text manipulation. So when I saw that v14 was released, I figured I could skip the upgrade. Reading through the features, I was sure I could skip the upgrade.
🔗 Link Post: “Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?”
“From this vantage, “Office Space,” the Gen-X slacker paean that came out 20 years ago next month, feels like science fiction from a distant realm. It’s almost impossible to imagine a startup worker bee of today confessing, as protagonist Peter Gibbons does: “It’s not that I’m lazy. It’s that I just don’t care.” Workplace indifference just doesn’t have a socially acceptable hashtag. "
Office Space was my North Star. How am I so old?
I like being outside when it’s raining but not cold.
With this much sleep, how is it that I still feel tired and run-down?
In the latest episode of @hemisphericviews we learn that I’m an expert in cooling your home, @burk discovers an app that no one has ever heard of and @martinfeld gets hung up on spelling and grammar for a moment (surprise!). Pocket Casts episode link
Coffee time. Today it’s that weird Western Australian coffee, “skinny long mac topped up”. Fortunately I’m friendly with the barista else I’d have felt like a complete dick ordering that.
