Wednesday, December 23, 2020 →
Summer evening on the porch.
More Evidence Against Trickle-Down Economic Theory
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Keeping tax low for rich does not boost economy: From the Department of the Blinding Obvious, which has been consistently challenged by the Department of Vested Interests, comes a new paper demonstrating that Trickle-Down Economics… wait for it… doesn’t work! Major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality but do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment, according to new research by LSE and King’s College London.
I’m impressed with Apple Fitness+. The quality of the entire thing - presenters, set design, technology stack. All brilliant.
Waking up a sleeping M1 MacBook Air really is fast. Now I understand what Craig Federighi was talking about. Open the lid - bam, ready to go. Guess what, @Burk - my Intel iMac really is trash now.
Co-host of @HemisphericViews @martinfeld has taken the Milo discussion from our latest podcast episode to a new level. He has released Flavours of Feld, a video demonstrating correct Milo technique. Watch the video, subscribe to the podcast!
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
The screen on my new MacBook Air is never going to be this clean again.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
I’ve got a problem where calendars shared from Fastmail via .ics link to Google Calendar aren’t showing any events in Google. Is Fastmail providing a malformed URL or is GooCal borked?
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
🔗 Link Post: “Daring Fireball: Ecosia Is Now a Default Search Engine Option for Safari”
John Gruber writing for Daring Fireball:
“I actually hadn’t heard of Ecosia before, but their story is interesting enough that I’m giving them a shot.”
If Gruber listened to Hemispheric Views he would have heard about Ecosia on Episode 2 back on 24 September.
Don’t be like Gruber. Subscribe now!
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
The latest mini-episode from @HemisphericViews talks spiders, Nissan Bluebirds and Gobbledoks. Have a listen. 🎙
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
I express my gratitude to the community of micro.blog, so many of whom gave their best wishes to me when I shared the news of my Dad dying. This really is a great neighbourhood of the internet - thank you all. 💕🙌
Chrome is Bad
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Chrome is Bad: Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn’t running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way faster, all the time. I’ve never been a huge fan of Chrome. Reading this was enough to convince me to uninstall it for good. This website has been published by Loren Brichter, who authored Tweetie way back when.
I didn’t have the best nor closest relationship with my Dad. Today, however, he passed away to be with God and I appreciate the part he played in my life.
I’ve cloned logseq to my Github repo. An interesting clone of Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought..
Micro.blog compatriot @Gaby submitted his desk to @HemisphericViews for review. What do we have to say? @Burk @martinfeld Best listen and find out! 🎙
The latest episode of The NBL Pocket Podcast is live. If you want an update on the past week of Australian basketball, this is the podcast to listen you want. 🏀🎙
Never change, Amazon.
Kids are occupied, wind isn’t too bad, and heat has died down. It’s nice to be sitting on the front porch now.
HVmini // Craig's Desk
Monday, December 7, 2020
Are you curious to see how other’s set their desks up? We were @HemisphericViews so we asked listeners to share… and they did! First up is Craig. Follow along with the podcast with best-in-class show notes, including photos. You also get to see how the sausage was made as we share a screenshot of the edited file. Listen, learn, subscribe!
I’ve installed Big Sur on my iMac. So far, all seems well. I went to enable reduce transparency, only to discover I must have had it enabled in Catalina as the setting had transferred over.