I wonder if @Fastmail have any idea of the love for them on micro.blog. They should drop in and say hi. In the words of @cheri, we would probably all throw our tech panties at them.

I edited my forthcoming podcast with a trial version of Hindenburg Journalist. It took some getting used to coming from Ferrite and it’s direct manipulation with the Apple Pencil. The main missing feature I noticed was ripple delete. I’m tempted to buy a license, though.

Ecamm Live Trial

My home page on the web needs to be redone. But that needs motivation and an idea. I’m devoid of both.

I’ve been playing around with Ecamm Live this afternoon. I have no reason to do a live stream, but it’s fun to experiment.

Promos

Addendum: Replicating Hey.com Features in MailMate

It has been pointed out by Martin McCallion that I failed to explain how I generated the “People Pages” view that is inherent within Hey into my own MailMate reconstruction. To do this I created a new Smart Mailbox with the following mailbox filtering criteria: Furthermore, in the same mailbox configuration window, but under the ‘Submailboxes’ tab be sure to select the checkbox to create submailboxes, and choose an appropriate filter.

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It was fun and surprising to be listening to the latest episode of Mac Power Users (540) and hear my older review of MailMate mentioned and linked in the show notes.

I’m contemplating shutting down my ad hoc blot.im blog over at canion.me and bringing it all over to micro.blog. Any reason not to do so? Then what do I do with the canion.me domain? Decisions, decisions…

Replicating Hey.com Features in Regular Email Systems

2021-11-28: I’ve updated this post in an effort to correct what were missing images. With thanks to @chrisl_at for letting me know of the problem. Basecamp has released their much-anticipated1 take on email, Hey. As a long-time fan of Basecamp and a light user of their Basecamp Personal2 product I was interested to see how they were going to address the issue of email. First off, Hey looks beautiful. Beyond looks it has a number of interesting features to support a healthier and more efficient email workflow.

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This is a test of the new prototype embedding system on micro.blog.

Embedding microblog posts with Quotebacks manton.org

It’s great to have new features to play with.

I’ve got a week that features 3-hour Zoom meetings each day. This article by @rogueamoeba is saving my ears.

I watched the first two episodes of Dear… on AppleTV+ tonight. The room got very dusty at times. πŸ’¦

I’ve been using Microsoft Edge for Mac today, and I’m not hating it. I’ve gone so far as to download it for iOS as well.

Happy Birthday

2020 wasn’t meant to be this way. I have distinct memories of working in government when up-beat policy visions with ambitious names like Towards 2020 and 2020: A Forecast of our Future were being pumped out1. These reports all had a commonality in that 2020 was guaranteed to be great! As long as we did whatever the document was promoting, from its publish date to 2020, things would be brilliant.

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Does micro.blog support footnotes? I’ve drafted a post and they don’t seem to work? cc: @help

A public thank you to @manton for creating micro.blog. This service allows me to easily activate my creativity whether it be written word, photography, video or audio. All wrapped up around a social fabric. I love it.

Keep Practising: 09 - Racism is not cool, featuring David Canion

Today I welcome my son to the show. He wanted to address the issue of racism, which has been on his mind of recent times.

I’ve trawled the internet searching my own past, collecting the more noteworthy bits. I leave quite the digital exhaust.

Marked 2 as teleprompter

Marked 2 as teleprompter, revisited - BrettTerpstra.com: Once you have the theme, you can start prompting just by hitting the β€˜s’ key in a Marked preview. That will start autoscroll at the slowest speed. Use left and right arrows to speed up/slow down the scroll speed. (You can also click and drag on the meter that appears in the lower left of the screen.) That’s all there is to it.

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