Nostalgic November

This month Hemispheric Views podcast is celebrating Nostalgic November. We are inviting listeners to share something from their history that makes them happy, be it a memory, a thing, an experience… whatever they like! As hosts, we each contributed our own piece of nostalgia. This is how mine starts out: I was in Year 5 at a new school. I didn’t know anybody. My previous school didn’t have a formal uniform and I’d worn velcro shoes everyday.

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Keyboard Maestro making it even easier to meet my needs as a Textexpander replacement. Now with menubar icons for specific groups!

YNAB Jumping the Shark

On YNAB, and the pricing outrage that I and other users are feeling: I can afford the increase. It’s ridiculous that it’s more expensive than Microsoft 365 or Adobe, but okay. But really it’s the poor communication, the tin ear they are showing (a budgeting app that promotes forward planning pushing a 100% price increase on people with a month’s notice), that they’ve dumped the news about this (via pop up which I didn’t see because I use NextDNS - that’s right, no official email), and then gone into hiding that bothers me.

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Undertaking an edit of @HemisphericViews is no mean feat. But like any hobby, it’s a labour of love in which the time invested is not about generating a return, but instead about trying to make something as good as it can be.

Trick or Treat! Our family comprises a witch, The Grim Reaper, Joker, and American Psycho, Patrick Bateman. 🎃

If you’re an Australian YNAB user, beware their new loans feature. It’s a blunt instrument and can’t cope with a typical Australian mortgage situation, such as fortnightly payments, offset accounts, interest-only loans, and daily interest calculations.

I’ve got an itch to setup my iMac from scratch. It’s been migrated a few times, and it’s deeply customised. Trying to do the cost:benefit calculus.

The logo for Meta (nee Facebook) looks like a pair of kidneys. Are they coming for my kidneys now in some sort of mafia hit job? I wouldn’t put it past them. Do not trust this company.

Micro.blog isn’t in danger of losing my business but I am enjoying Drummer. It feels like I’m writing, not blogging, with no pressure about creating “a blog post”. I also love that its in the form of an outline which is the purest form of thinking and writing in one.