Andrew Canion

🔗 Link Post: “Daring Fireball: Financial Times Reports the Obvious: Trump Resisted Testing ‘Too Many People’ Lest the Results Spook the Stock Market”

John Gruber writing for Daring Fireball:

“The problem isn’t testing, the problem is sick people, and testing is a way to get a handle on the problem. Trump’s stance is like telling your girlfriend not to take a pregnancy test because you don’t want a baby.”

What a great line.

Thanks to this video I have discovered how to use my old Nikon D7000 with 50mm lens as a webcam. Which led me to buying an adaptor to convert a mic boom arm into a dSLR mount. High quality video conferencing coming up.

Colour-a-Day Challenge: Blue 📷🌈

COVID-19 has been a boon for improving my friendships. Since the outbreak my closest knit guys have held a weekly group Zoom meeting plus chatting in WhatsApp. The bonds of friendship have been strengthened. I love it.

Battle of the iOS email heavyweights - BryceWray.com Bryce Wray assesses power-user mobile email apps in an enjoyable review (and references one of my articles 🙂). I’ve been trialling Preside and can vouch for the responsiveness of the developer.

Colour-a-Day Challenge: Green 📷🌈

The number of apps able to post to micro.blog are growing. The native app, Gluon, Drafts, MarsEdit and now the one I’m using here: iA Writer. No excuse not to post.

Colour-a-Day Challenge: Yellow 📷🌈

Colour-a-Day Challenge: Orange 📷🌈

My wife and our kids were featured in a newspaper article over the weekend as part of Mother’s Day.

Colour-a-Day Challenge: Red 📷

Happy Mother’s Day!

The details are not the details; they make the product.

‒ Charles Eames 💬

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

‒ Frank Tibolt 💬

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

‒ John Glenn 💬

I got a Stream Deck today. Will be fun to see what interesting shortcuts and automations I can concoct with it and Keyboard Maestro.

Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.

‒ George Bernard Shaw 💬

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
 — John James Audubon 💬

Big storm here tonight. We’ve had a backyard fence blow down. ⛈

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, while all the time the presuppositions […] are being reinforced by the limits put on […] the debate.

— Noam Chomsky 💬

I’ve had fun using Ferrite Podcast Studio to edit an upcoming podcast episode. At this stage, I’m not sure if it’s faster than using a Mac, but it’s definitely more fun.

Why do we need mounted police in 2020? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This guy is a classic Aussie. Him saying “crooks” and “coppers” sounds perfect. Love it.

Garage door adjustment is going to be the death of me. Whatever combination of screws I turn, I can’t get it right.