Tuesday, June 23, 2020
These are my thoughts on the 2020 Apple WWDC keynote, presented in the order they occurred as I watched the show. I’ve not yet read any other feedback so these thoughts are non-affected by groupthink: General The stagecraft and direction that Apple puts into these shows is amazing. iOS Widgets on the home screen - finally! The new messages is great but still relies on everybody having iOS.
I’ve fully Rogue Amoebafied my Mac with Audio Hijack, Fission, Farrago, Loopback, SoundSource. Send help! // @rogueamoeba
I tried out Otter.ai today which does voice to text transcription, recognising the different speakers. It’s kind of amazing, but I’m not confident of the privacy policy.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
I consider why I am doing this podcast, and why I gave it the name Keep Practising. In Nerd Corner, I note my disappointment with how Apple has handled the HEY App Store situation, but note my pride in how my article about replicating the Hey workflow in regular apps has been received. Brené Brown, Unlocking Us, Episode 1
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.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
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.
Friday, June 19, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
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.
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…
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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.
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. 💦
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.
Monday, June 15, 2020
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.
Does micro.blog support footnotes? I’ve drafted a post and they don’t seem to work? cc: @help