The situation in Afghanistan is deeply saddening. I think of all the women and children, in particular, who are now going to face extremely difficult lives, with no genuine prospect of relief. 😔

My sketchnote selfie done after watching the great Sketchnoting session at Micro Camp. @ChrisJWilson @cm

Beer in hand.

That time my son David got rocked in his pram by Luc Longley. A bunch of Perth people having a chat in Los Angeles.

Lover’s Lament. ❤️💔

Micro Camp is coming! ⛺️

Weekend plans.

In the process of cancelling my renewal for 1Password I noticed they were charging me more than their standard advertised rate. I was paying $5.49 per month, as opposed to their standard $4.99.

The March of Electron: 1Password Edition

I despise Electron apps. What is the point of having a superior operating system (macOS) if every app that resides on it is nobbled by not supporting basic elements of the underpinning system?

I see the short-term reason that developers must use: standardised code, cheaper for development, most users don’t know/care.

I also caution about the long-term losses: the damage to brand reputation, the disappointment of ‘power users’ and the risks that can occur from alienating this group.

It’s also hard not to see that this switch to Electron came shortly after 1Password accepted a huge venture capital stake. Investors want their returns.

Users who do care, such as myself, are the proselytising acolytes, however. I’ve recommended 1Password many times over the years, as well as being a paying subscriber of their Families edition more recently, after having bought multiple versions of their earlier standalone apps.

Rui Carmo at The Tao of Mac echoes my sentiments:

This shift away from fully native apps and the fact that they are removing iCloud support from version 8 in order to enforce the use of their cloud sync service (in an obvious lock-in ploy) was the last straw, so I just downloaded Secrets, paid for the Premium version ($19.99 for each platform) and imported all my 1Password data into it.

I have access to Secrets for macOS through my Setapp subscription. So I can try this out for a while, and if I like it I’m happy to buy the iOS version.

My current 1Password subscription is valid through to April next year so there’s no immediate pressure for me to shut down the 1Password account.

Pfizer jab #2 has definitely knocked me around, but totally worth it. I’m getting awesome 5G coverage, I missed a phone call from Bill Gates and the deep State have sent me a manilla folder with mission details inside! What a day! 💉

I’m maxinated! Starting to perhaps feel the affects of the second dose of Pfizer, but it’s a price worth paying! 💉

Standard signage at the Perth COVID vaccination clinic. 💉

My new R.M. Williams boots getting their inaugural wear.

For the heck of it I’ve installed the demo of Bare Bones' Yojimbo. I bought v2.1 on 26 November 2009 and upgraded to v3.0 on 20 October 2010. Version 4.6 doesn’t look to have changed much. The introductory document still refers to iPhoto.

Great to do some planning with @martinfeld and @Burk for the special live episode of @HemisphericViews podcast as part of the upcoming Micro.Camp. Get around the event! ⛺️

I’m elated. Our Australian Boomers got the monkey off the back and won a bronze medal. 🏀 🥉

I’m having one of those “feels like a Friday” nights. Shame it’s Thursday.

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

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. Does Things offer any form of similar automation?