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…
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: Goodreads - nice because it automatically syncs with Kindle, but bad because the website is an early 2000’s horror show.
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!
CPLAY2air Wireless CarPlay Adaptor Review
Some weeks ago I bought a wireless CarPlay adaptor for my new 2021 Toyota Camry. The Camry support CarPlay but only when connected with a lightning cable. My experience with it to date has been mostly positive, with some caveats. The largest issue I have is its “Chinese knock-off” software interface. I don’t quite know how they are making this whole thing work, and not having had CarPlay before I don’t know what earlier generations of the software were like.
Ready for his first Eucharist.
