Book Recommendation 📚: The Mote in God’s Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Book Recommendation 📚: The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
Book Recommendation 📚: Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
🔗 Link Post: “Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown | Free to read | Financial Times”
Edward Luce writing for The Financial Times:
“Other scientists have taken note of Bright’s fate. During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when Obama’s administration sent 3,000 US military personnel to Africa to fight the epidemic, the CDC held a daily briefing about the state of progress. It has not held one since early March. Scientists across Washington are terrified of saying anything that contradicts Trump.
“The way to keep your job is to out-loyal everyone else, which means you have to tolerate quackery,” says Anthony Scaramucci, an estranged former Trump adviser, who was briefly his White House head of communications. “You have to flatter him in public and flatter him in private. Above all, you must never make him feel ignorant.””
This brilliant long read article details how the US has essentially become a failed state, led by a megalomaniacal madman.
Colour-a-Day Challenge: (Indigo 📷🌈 (Not exactly indigo)
🔗 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 📷🌈
Keep Practising: S01, E06 - Life in Isolation
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Keep Practising: S01, E06: I reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted life at home and on Perth more broadly. In “Nerd Corner” this week, I talk about using Stream Deck in combination with Keyboard Maestro.
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.
Happy Mother’s Day!
