Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 4: sharp 📷

Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 3: majority 📷

Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 2: dark 📷

And this article is why, sadly, I’ve been using Edge on my Mac in recent times. Daring Fireball: The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’

Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 1: touch 📷

The Bluff Knoll climb was easier some 15 years ago.

This was the most perfect (double) rainbow I’ve ever seen in my life. 🌈

Enjoyed tasting some whisky at Limeburners.

Dog Rock, Albany.

The Gap, Albany.

iOS 15 and the Find My energy drain hit my new iPhone 13 mini last night. From 80% to 10% battery charge overnight. I hope Apple sort this out because battery drain is the worst kind of bug.

This kid gets it. @hemisphericviews

Keep Practising 20: Two Mic Audio Experiment

In which David and I experiment with a two mic, two headphone studio production. With a guest appearance from Benji.

The internet can be small. I got random help from a stranger via the MailMate mailing list. Turns out said stranger is @PaulGit on micro.blog. Thanks Paul!

Dude, Where's My Car?, 2000 - ★★★★★

I used to know every line of this movie. Shibby!

I Hate Facebook, and You Should Too

Facebook is a terrible company and I’ve felt much better about myself since deleting their products: notably Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. When ditching use of the apps, there is a withdrawal period of 5-8 days, then after that, it’s fine. Life goes on. Time is returned to your life. You miss nothing of import. I’m still waiting for my “Facebook friends” to check in and see how I’m doing and note they miss my absence…

At what point do we acknowledge that a company is a net negative, and facilitate its end?

Corey Doctorow has written a great article about the latest horrible news arising from Facebook. It’s hard to pull a single quote, but this stood out:

Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2021:

Everybody hates Facebook, especially FB users. The point of high switching costs, after all, is to increase the pain of leaving so that FB can dole out more abuse to its users without fearing that they’ll quit the whole enterprise.

FB’s mission is to increase the size of the shit-sandwich they can force you to eat before you walk away. But they’re not mere sadists: shit-sandwiches have a business model: the more hostages they take, the more they can extract from advertisers – their true customers.

Thanks to @fahrni for bringing the Doctorow post to my attention.

Book Tracking Services

It seems there are an explosion of book tracking platforms all of a sudden, after years of it being a Goodreads monoculture.

This is good, because competition.

This is bad, because now I’m having to update my reading stats on a bunch of sites as I try to figure out which is the ‘good’ one.

By my account, there is:

Currently reading: Thinking In Systems by Donella Meadows. This has been on my list for ages; time to get into it. 📚

I’ve decided I’m going to upgrade my iPhone XR to an iPhone 13 mini. I like the idea of a small, pocketable phone. I am nervous about typing on it because I have larger than average thumbs.

YNAB LaunchBar Actions

I’m a huge YNAB fan and a LaunchBar user. I often get jealous of Alfred users because the system of “workflows” in Alfred seems to have caught on better than LaunchBar’s “Actions”.

Righting that wrong has appeared @ptujec on Github. He has a number of LaunchBar Actions, notably two built for YNAB.

I found a bug in the script, raised an issue on Github and it’s already been fixed. Thanks!